Wax on Roses....

I had some Rose trees delivered yesterday and one of them is completely covered in green wax

Why would this be please?

 

It is to stop the plant from drying out in transit. Ignore it and it will soon disappear as the plant grows and gets weathered. I remember buying roses 50 years ago with this wax coating on them. (That was before I found I detest the things).

 

Well I never knew that! Learn something every day on gc thanx

 

I wonder why it's only one of the Roses that came with the wax...maybe more prone to drying out or how long they've been in storage

 

I had some roses covered in wax (I don't think the grafting point, as they were over the cut ends where the rose had been pruned - so that would be one year on from grafting). They were from some special newspaper offer that my Father in Law bought and then decided he didn't want. The plant's quality was rubbish ... might have nothing to do with the wax, and more to do with the newspaper offer ... or maybe the wax is a sign that they have been long-term stored in a warehouse?

 

This particular rose was completely covered in the wax from top to toe and where it had been 'pruned' it looked more like they'd been chewed off...i'm not holding out much hope for it but it did come as a 'freebie' as a pack of three aside from my original order ...i've potted the 'freebies' up as they came with no labelsuntil i find out which they are,i don't want them in the wrong place...

 

Lol