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No blooms yet on Leontine Gervais
My Leontine Gervais rose didn't bloom at all last year;
it just grew profusely. I assume that it blooms on old wood. Almost all of my roses are blooming now here in N. Florida, zone 8b, including many of the once-blooming species roses. There are two remontant bushes next to the Leontine Gervais, treated more or less the same way as it is when it comes to fertilizer, watering, etc. and they have been both putting out new growth and blooming, but it is simply growing like mad, with fat new canes springing up with remarkable rapidity, and new growth from the middle of the old canes. (Both are own-root, one a Lafter and the other a Prosperity.) Do I simply have to wait until later for this ungainly giant to bloom, or is my weather perhaps too mild over the winter for any blooms? It lost almost all its leaves over the winter, but it's on the south side of my trailer and it might have not gotten a lot of chill. It's a cheapie I picked up on sale as a bare-root grafted rose (probably on Dr. Huey stock) from Wayside Gardens, but it seems rudely healthy, and I pruned only dead wood from it last year. Mark. |
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