IT'S NEVER ONLY A ROSE 2018

Rosa Compassion. WOW!! Great blooms and hey! what a fast grower. My one produces stems of 3/4" dia in a season, so hard pruning is called for.

 

Thanks for sharing Gail.

 

@ARMANDII that truly is a beautiful rose. Those are not the roses you find in shops.

I used to have a beautiful rose near my back door. It was sort of peach in colour. It grew to over 6 feet tall every year and flowered beautifully. Unfortunately it was a bit in the way. It grew across the path to the back yard. It was also a bit too close to where we needed to fit the dog/cat flap. What’s left of the Bush is a stump at ground level. It’s a shame I didn’t move it somewhere else first.

What are the chances of bringing a stump back to life?

G.

 

@ARMANDII there’s been no shoots for years. I think it’s well and truly dead. It’s a shame.

On a similar but different note. I have 2 red robin bushes that have grown unchecked into massive trees. One of them I cut right down to just above ground level. It started shooting again. It has now been cut down further and the shoots have stopped. I will dig the root out eventually. The other one is still growing for now. If I cut it right down would it grow back into a manageable shape? It would save me a lot of hard work if it did. If not, it will have to go.



G.

 

If I lopped off a branch and stuck it in a bucket would it grow? A couple of years ago I tried to take cuttings but they didn’t grow. I’m sure I did it wrong.

G.

 

No, it wont grow. Wait for a month or so then take softwood cuttings. Try 50/50 perlite and mpc and hormone rooting powder or gel.
I have cut photinias hard back.....to 2 or 3' from 8' or so.....and they (mostly) respond well. For me they are fickle shrubs and seem to suffer from die back. Here I had Red Robin, Pink Lady and a dwarf Red Robin and all have disqppointed me.

 

Beautiful picture @Sienna's Blossom roses are always a beautiful flower perfection with in themselves

 

They definitely are @Gail_68 thank you

 

Hi @Mike Allen thanks for the helpful tips but I only have to rose plants now..one in the back garden and the flower heads are big when they come and a nice one on the front and the roses that come on it are never endless. I do clip them back come autumn for winter and both of them now have new leaves developing

 

RIP that a bit below the belt @ARMANDII

He's trying to survive his plants not stick them into a deeper

 

Never mind the sad eyes with me ...keep it up and you'll need correcting

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