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Rose help
ALLOTMENTMAD
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Hi, I have a lovely rose bush planted last year in my flower garden on my allotment planted in memory of my grandfather. It has flowered beautifully this year, with only the slightest hint of fungal infection on the leaves. It has dropped most of its leaves now, and i have cleared them away. What else do should I be doing? When do I prune? Should I be applying blood fish and bone meal? Any advice to ensure this Rose continues to be the star of my garden will be very much appreciated!
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...there's nothing you should be doing really...definitely not feeding at this time of year... as it's on an allotment I presume it to be an open and windy site, then you could trim back any tall shoots to prevent wind rock during the worst of the weather... sometimes just trimming back a few inches can stabilise the plant. I've just done it with one of mine... no need to be fussy about it... any bits of dead wood can be removed next Spring...
..I'm sorry you've not had a reply to this before now...
I take the hedge trimmer to all my roses and take them down a third after flowering, that is enough to stop wind rocking, in Spring they get a proper pruning and as they are mostly old roses it works. If there is any compost left a mulch round the root ball not touching the stems and in Spring feed a good rose fertiliser and more mulch. I remove any spotted leaves, a weekly inspection will do and burn the leaves, any dropped then get them up and burn them.
Frank.