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Pruned rose. Should I worry?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited July 2023 in Plants
I have hard to hard prune a mature Arthur Bell climbing rose to allow for a fence post to be reinforced - not done yet but it will be well away from the roots.
New leaves are emerging and the odd flower bud.
What concerns me is that the new leaves are very pale and slightly yellowish.
Is there a problem?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Can you post a photo @B3 ?

    When did you do the hard pruning? I seem to get different colour new rose leaves through the season (especially after cutting stems back hard when dead heading) and I suspect your rose will be fine
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've  been doing it gradually  as the flowers finish  or if there's a lot of black spot on a branch @Topbird
    Here's a picture 

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Hmm - not sure - but I think it will be ok next year.

    You could give it a good water and a bit of a feed now, but you might not want to do that if you still need to to keep the rose small. Maybe just a decent mulch....

    I suspect it will benefit from a good feed next spring and will romp away next summer.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think I'll give it a good feed. The post in question is the next one along from the photo.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    If it makes you feel any better - I have yet to kill a rose by cutting it back. Cut a climbing rose with a 6m spread back to less than 30cm once (for fence work). Bounced back stronger than ever the next year.🙂
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's a comfort that it is, at least,  sprouting but the new leaves usually start off pinkish. It's had a liquid feed so  hopefully things will sort themselves out.
    Thank you for your advice @Topbird
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Feeding is rarely the answer to rose or wealthy human's condition.  It encourages unhealthy growth.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    That happened to my yellow rose Grosvenor House after I pruned the first flush of flowers. It's fine now, new buds and the leaves have turned green.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Don't you ever feed your roses @bédé?
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well, I'll do whatever I can to help it survive - even feeding it😲
    If it succumbs to my cruel and unnatural treatment, I will plant clematis in fond  memory of the decades we spent together.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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