I've been watering, have fertilised & mulched with bark. This one was from
Spaldings & I paid quite a lot for it as it was very pretty (in the
picture!). It's been raining buckets for a couple of days now too - I will
go & see if I can see any green under the bark as suggested by Rod.

It is about 30cm tall & quite thin - about the thickness of a pencil. I will
be disappointed if it doesn't grow.

:-(
Jayne

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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Jayne,
have you been giving it loads of water?
I bought some bare root roses from Morrisons supermarket and two of the
three looked dead(ish).
I followed the instructions to soak them in water overnight, and ended up
soaking them for over a day as well.
To my surprise they had already started showing little red shoots when I
came to plant them out (in tubs).
They seemed to stop once planted out, so I have made a point of watering
them every day and keeping the compost really moist.
They seem to like this and are all sprouting well.
HTH
Dave R

P.S. what size are the stem or stems?