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Originally Posted by beccabunga
Roses like lots of food and a neutral soil, and prefer clay to light soil.
Feed it with a rose food, mulch strongly with rotted manure, foliar feed, and remove dead roses. Investigate pruning it in the spring.
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Thanks - have fed it and used well rotted horse manure - looking a bit better. Soil is definately acid so don't know if this is part of the problem.
It has flowered and is a fragrant pale pink so looking up books high hopes may be correct. I'll cut back in spring and see how it comes.
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