A Big Thank You To you All

......And thank you to Woo, we're wiser for having your knowledge to draw on.

 

Yes, thank you Woo and on that note, I have a "Jubilee Celebration" from David Austin which I bought the first year they produced it, I think it was 2002/3. It should be a bush rose but I only ever get one stem and at most 5 flowers on side shoots which are all near the top. The one main stem is now too tall really for a bush rose (about 3ft) but I'm afraid to prune it in case I lose it altogether. It's healthy enough and when the flowers do come they are stunning. Do you have any advice? I look after it in the same way as all of my other roses; maybe I was just unlucky to choose a straggler?

 

I have just dug one up @wiseowl
It has cost me a fork and spade
It had like long fingers growing deep into the ground.
Shame to see it go, because it had been here a long time, but the border looks much better now.

 

I've lost count of the forks and spades that end up like that here, NG
Here's my love of the moment....it's escaped the attentions of the deer this year, thanks to bars of soap suspended from the stems...Alchymist.

 

Your rose looks wonderful Noisette!