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Are my roses sick?
Mel Mcbride
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My yellow rose bush (think its run to the sun) has produced normal yellow roses and some orangey. I just wondered about this as I've recently read stripey tulips are really just tulips with a virus.
It's probably nothing to worry about, but just in case there is something I should do at this point, thought I'd ask.
It lives in heavy thick clay soil (they kind you could fire straight out the ground!) and has been producing yellow roses for at least 8 years.. possible another 8 or so before I got here too. This is the first time I've noticed the orangey - reddish tinge.
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Are the flowers on a single stem with slightly different leaves to the rest of the bush? If so it could be a sucker coming from the roots below the graft. Sometimes roses do this. The only way to stop it is to dig down and pull off the offending sucker. If not enjoy the difference.
I shouldn't worry. Just make sure you feed the rose generously every spring with slow release rose fertiliser or blood fish and bone or pelleted chicken manure and then give it occasional drinks of liquid tomato food up until late June.
That way your rose will be healthy enough to flower well and fight off any pests and diseases that may have a go at it.