Thread: Rose trauma
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Old 23-03-2011, 10:09 AM
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Apparently my next door neighbour on the other side rescued the rose before
he masacred it, and I haven't had a chance to thank her and see how it is
yet. But given the time of year and the fact that it was well out of
dormancy (and hadn't had a hugely harsh pruning this year), what's the
chance of it surviving?
Roses can have deep roots, whcih you have to cut off when you dig them up. My experience of trying to transplant some roses I'd planted only a few years previously, trying to rescue them from the drive contractor, was that I lost half of them.