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Roses
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I have a standard patio rose in a container that has grown well and flowered for the last two years but will not flower this summer for some reason. I have other roses in and out of containers that are flowering well. I use the same multi-compost, multi-liquid feed, watering and rose pest control to kill off any bugs and black spot. This rose looks healthy, is growing well but is not budding or flowering at all. I also treated this rose to Bonemeal and Bayer Garden Toprose a few weeks ago hoping that would work but still no change. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks. 
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I'm not much of a rose grower but 2 things spring to mind.
1, too much food causing leaf growth at the expense of flowers
2. pruning off the stems that would have had the flowers
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've blown the picture up and zoomed in - it's apparent that most of the stems of this rose have been cut back quite recently - there's no puzzle as to why it's not flowered - the flowering shoots have been cut off - the puzzle is why
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
nutcutlet - thanks for your reply.
I feed this rose the same as all the other roses - this is the only rose that is not flowering. I only fed it Bayer Garden Toprose 3-4 weeks ago for the very first time because I thought it needed a boost that the other roses didn't.
This rose does seem to grow faster than the other roses so I've been pruning it more - perhaps I need to stop feeding it and see what happens later this summer or next year.
I did have another rose that never flowered so after 3 years of waiting I tried a potash rich liquid organic plant food - and within a few days it started flowering like crazy. I think I'll try some organic plant food and see if that works...
Please dont be obsessed with feed, there is no need for lots and lots and lots and so on. You have cut the flowering stems off, no ammount of feed with put them back. This poor rose had been fed, sprayed cut fed and now you want to feed it again.,
Dovefromabove - thanks also for your reply.
This rose grows much faster than the other roses so I've been pruning it more. I last pruned it hard around March time along with the other roses which were starting to bud then.
This rose wasn't budding at all in March but I didn't want to leave it any later. It's supposed to be a standard rose but if not pruned back every 3-4 months I reckon it would be touching the clouds by now.
I did have another rose that grew well but never flowered so after 3 years of waiting I tried a potash rich liquid organic plant food - and within a few days it started flowering like crazy. I think I'll try some organic plant food and see if that works...
What do you think?
Lyn - thanks for your words of wisdom. You can tell I've only been gardening for 3 years can't you? At least I'm trying and hopefully learning from my mistakes.
This rose grows much faster than the other roses so I've been pruning it more. I last pruned it hard around March time along with the other roses which were starting to bud then. This rose wasn't budding at all in March but I didn't want to leave it any later. The first year it flowered more than it grew, the second year it grew as much as it flowered, and this year it grew even faster than before but didn't bud in Spring.
pansyface - Thanks - there are a few red stems on the rose - the photo doesn't show the full rose. I will leave the rose alone now - just water it when needed - and see what happens...
We had a very mild winter this year in England - the rose didn't stop growing. A few of my plants seem to be as confused as I am - I had hanging baskets flowering right up to Christmas - which I cast aside in the garden out of site - to find that the flowers self-seeded and grew back again before March.