I was given a rose (Mr Lincoln hybrid Tea) as a birthday present last night.
I don't have the time or patience for roses, but can't ditch the thing since
it was a present... How do they go in pots? Do they need any more/less
watering or fertiliser? I was thinking of maybe buying a nice, medium sized,
blue glazed pot to bury the thing in.

Wanda wrote:

I was given a rose (Mr Lincoln hybrid Tea) as a birthday present last night.
I don't have the time or patience for roses, but can't ditch the thing since
it was a present... How do they go in pots? Do they need any more/less
watering or fertiliser? I was thinking of maybe buying a nice, medium sized,
blue glazed pot to bury the thing in.



It should be OK in a pot. It will probably need more water. You can
mulch the top of the mix, several inches deep, to help keep the roots cool.

Roses are too much trouble for me as well, but if I were going to grow
any, it would be Mr Lincoln. It's an absolutely beautiful rose and
lovely fragrance as well.


Jane

In article ,
"Wanda" wrote:

I was given a rose (Mr Lincoln hybrid Tea) as a birthday present last night.
I don't have the time or patience for roses, but can't ditch the thing since
it was a present...

Roses aren't that difficult. Even in Sydney you can pretty much plant and
forget them (as long as you don't have conniptions at the sight of black
spot). The occasional fertiliser and winter prune isn't too big an imposition
on a gardening fiend such as yourself, surely?

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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