Roses in green wax coating

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• paulbaxendale4813wtYe2ly Posts: 65

  15 February

  Hi , haven't  got a clue if there any good or not but I saw these in tescos today coated in green wax .
  £ 2.50 each which is a bargain I suppose  if your gardening on a budget and there any good. They had climbing roses and shrub roses as well.I was in the GC the other  day having a nose and saw the DA roses had gone up to £35

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  15 February

  The wax is to protect the stems and buds of roses from drying out when they’re being transported, sold etc.   
  
  It doesn’t need to be removed. It’ll come away on its own in time. It’s not a problem. 
  
  
  

  
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• paulbaxendale4813wtYe2ly Posts: 65

  15 February

  Brilliant on here you learn something new everyday. 

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• Emptyheadtime Posts: 366

  15 February edited 15 February

  I received a mail order bare root rose like this. I picked of what I could, carefully, and left the rest on to avoid any damage. It’s beginning to shoot now and looks perfectly happy to me.

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• amancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736

  15 February

  Usually those kind of roses are a false economy as they tend to be really weak specimens...really not worth the effort to try to make something nice out of those twigs in wax. 

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• Meomye Posts: 949

  16 February

  Thank you @Dovefromabove for clarification. @amancalledgeorge and Paul thank you for your thoughts. 

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• McRazz Posts: 440

  16 February

  amancalledgeorge said:

  Usually those kind of roses are a false economy as they tend to be really weak specimens...really not worth the effort to try to make something nice out of those twigs in wax. 

  
  I've not bought one of these but seen them for sale. Are they weak because they are cuttings? i.e. not grafted on to a strong root stock like premium roses.
  

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• Eustace Posts: 2,290

  16 February

  Quite a few years ago, when they used to sell these waxed rose twigs for a quid in Tesc0/£land/such stores, I had bought a few and planted them. They are mostly HT or climbing roses, all grew well and are now quite big plants. The key is to buy when they are just put out in the stores and plant them ASAP. Just sharing my experiences.
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  16 February

  I have bought roses in pots that just turned out to be bare root roses poked into compost a short while before.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• badgerwatch Posts: 29

  16 February

  The aren’t really weaker plants, you see they mainly are sold like this in bargain stores as they are left on shelves in warmish stores where the staff aren’t there to look after them. So it’s just to stop them drying out more than they usually would if stored outside or in cooler appropriate conditions like proper garden centres. 

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