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Question on Tea rose maintenance.
Ed Lucarini wrote:
Shiva said in a previous post; They love lots of good water, lots of good organic matter, lots of fussing over. My question is how do you apply the organic matter? Ed, I just mulch. I don't compost, so I put down mulch. I usually use fine pine bark, but decaying leaves work fine too. Some use aged manure and rotted kitchen stuff aka "compost." Grass clippings that have had time to rot a while, or even good bags of black storebought garden soil or what they call "soil conditioner" is fine. The latter might be some soil plus aged manure and pine bark, or even sludge and bark or lawn waste. They just need stuff that will break down and release nutrients--in addition to whatever "Miracle Gro" type stuff you might put down. a. Take some compost hummus and layer it around the cane. You want to keep it away from the base of the rose. Spread mulch inside the drip line but clear a few inches from the base of the canes. b. Cut it to the cane in spring, then extract it from the earth and apply organic matter in the hole and replant. If I understand you correctly, well, HELL NO! :0) Never, ever be prune happy. If you see obvious disease (it looks rotting or dead) cut it out. Otherwise, trim just to shape. c. Use a red bark mulch as organic matter. Distribute around the cane. Bark is fine! But you might as well be safe and just go buy bags of "soil conditioner" from your local garden center, to make sure it is properly aged. Newer stuff produces heat as it breaks down and can "burn" tender plants. Word is, organic is any waste from living things, but it must be aged aka rotted and sufficiently broken down. I have a tea rose in the front of our yard (Z7 FS) since Grandma owned the house (1995). Why do you think it is a "tea rose?" There are teas and hybrid teas-- the modern, florist type rose is a hybrid tea. And from reading the posts here I'm getting educated. So this year I'm gonna fuss like I never fussed before. Ed! Way Cool! The good news is, the fussing means paying attention to just a few important things--water, sun, stuff like that. Now tell more about the rose. Color? Leaves? Can you take a picture and post it or send it to me and I will? MOST importantly, where are you? Is it blooming yet? More info, man! G Thanks much Ed |
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Question on Tea rose maintenance.
"Shiva" wrote in message news:aHlwYXRpYQ==.46b4f1f7847e780eff16afc580440b08 @1051764986.cotse.net... Why do you think it is a "tea rose?" There are teas and hybrid teas-- the modern, florist type rose is a hybrid tea. I don't know for sure what it is. It was a gift from my sister to my grandmother. All I heard was Tea rose. The bloom are miniature crimson, and plentiful. Accompanying it is a Hybrid Tea Mister Lincoln, witch I installed two years ago along with a Queen Elizabeth, a Don Juan to climb my lamp post (poor choice for climbing a lamp post, but beautiful blooms.), one other breed that I lost the label to. As the season warms up I will post them for I.d. I'd post now but I don't have a decent picture of it and I got prun happy during spring cleaning. It won't happen again. Now tell more about the rose. Color? Leaves? Can you take a picture and post it or send it to me and I will? MOST importantly, where are you? Is it blooming yet? More info, man! G It's a cool spring here on Long Island. I haven't had to mow the lawn yet, and the roses are just starting to launch new fishers. |
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