Hello everyone, I am new to this newsgroup, my name is Andrew and I live in
Melbourne Australia.

My question is about a very old rose bush at our house, where we move
recently so I have no idea what its history is. It has about a dozen very
thick branches coming up from the ground, they are up to about one inch in
diameter. They have been cut off to a height of about three feet (90cm).
When we moved here it was thick with shoots and just a mess, so during
winter I:
1. Pruned off all the shoots so only the main branches or trunks from the
ground remained.
2. Removed many of these branches so we now have the dozen or so left.
I then have fed it with rose feed and watered it a lot.

Since then lots of shoots have sprouted and it now has lots of green. Now
most of the other roses have flowered or have flowers formed but not yet
open, but this plant does not look like it will flower at all.

Is there anything I can do to help it flower??

I could send an image of it if anyone is interested.

Thanks

Andrew
Melbourne
Australia