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Help with raising roses please?
Hi everyone. We've decided the beds containing my few remaining roses
could do with raising. The soil needs topping up with some decent organic mix and a bit of mulch wants laying down (the present soil is old and leached-out). The question is, do I need to prune the roses, dig them up and replant them in the raised beds (planning on putting about 8" of new soil in) or should I let sleeping roses lie? I'm worried about collar-rot or whatever it is that could go wrong where they're grafted! Also, how big do climbing roses grow? I have a 'Climbing Queen Elizabeth' which is about to take over the house! It's about three metres tall and is now leaning over across the roof of the verandah! NB. It's not really 'Queen Elizabeth'... the flowers are too tightly petalled and too deep a pink: they're still very pretty, though. Hope someone can help me with this. ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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Help with raising roses please?
Trish Brown wrote: Hi everyone. We've decided the beds containing my few remaining roses could do with raising. The soil needs topping up with some decent organic mix and a bit of mulch wants laying down (the present soil is old and leached-out). The question is, do I need to prune the roses, dig them up and replant them in the raised beds (planning on putting about 8" of new soil in) or should I let sleeping roses lie? I'm worried about collar-rot or whatever it is that could go wrong where they're grafted! Also, how big do climbing roses grow? I have a 'Climbing Queen Elizabeth' which is about to take over the house! It's about three metres tall and is now leaning over across the roof of the verandah! NB. It's not really 'Queen Elizabeth'... the flowers are too tightly petalled and too deep a pink: they're still very pretty, though. Hope someone can help me with this. ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia Don't move your roses untill winter when they are dormant. Prune heavily, dig them up trim the roots and replant them in the new bed, make sure that the graft union is above the soil level. If they are looking a bit tired at the moment give them a feed of a commercial rose food (fertiliser). As to how big do climbing roses grow, that's a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. Roses respond well to heavy pruning (ever looked at bare rooted roses in a nursery) if your climber is too large cut it back to the size you want. |
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Help with raising roses please?
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Trish Brown wrote: Hi everyone. We've decided the beds containing my few remaining roses could do with raising. The soil needs topping up with some decent organic mix and a bit of mulch wants laying down (the present soil is old and leached-out). The question is, do I need to prune the roses, dig them up and replant them in the raised beds (planning on putting about 8" of new soil in) or should I let sleeping roses lie? I'm worried about collar-rot or whatever it is that could go wrong where they're grafted! I would vote for pruning, digging up and replanting. Do this during their dormant period, if you can (in Sydney, it's July) because they don't mind being bare-rooted then. If you want to do it earlier, don't do it until you are *sure* the really hot weather is over. If you have a choice about mulch, I hear they like lucerne. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "... if *I* was buying a baby I'd jolly well make sure it was at least a two-tooth!" Mary Grant Bruce, The Houses of the Eagle. |
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