Roses...........what can you tell me?????

I planted lots and lots of climbing and other kinds?.
1 plant never made it. 1 plant has been 1/2 dead for years.
The other have been growing like crazy. I even have one that is mostly thorns!!!!!

When the flowers die.....a "ball" is left????? When do I prune? How much?
One has a "icky green and white something" all over it.

Ok so I planted them all years ago, watered them a couple of times, put up, trellis? and they keep growing!!!!!!!! Now they get watered on weekends....by my hubby????

HELP!!!!!!!!:ee k:

Thanks!!!!!!

From your description, it sounds like you need to dig them up and start over. Sometimes it's cheaper and easier.

First off, you need to decide what it is you are trying to accomplish with the roses There are many different types of roses and what you want to accomplish is what you should purchase.

Secondly, you should decide on a landscape plan to include the type of roses you want to include: Tea rose, floribunda, carpet roses, climbing roses, shrub roses, old-fashioned, etc.

Here's a good website to get you started. I also suggest stopping by the bookstore and getting a Sunset Book on Roses. There are a couple of good ones.

http://www.rosemagazine.com/articles...rdeningfaq.asp

That's what I'm going to do in my next garden life - decide what I want to accomplish, and start with a landscape plan.



I am good with the plants, but I never had any plan. It's a collection but it's not in any order at all.

I love to grow roses!

They don't like "dirty" feet...meaning keep the area around their trunks clean of mulch and dead leaves and all that.

I use ground pepper to keep pests off them. Dust often.

Dead head them often. That means if you don't prune them at the very least pinch off the dead flower. Plants live to bloom and if you remove the bloom they produce more, and more, and more.

Don't let them become leggy. That means don't allow the stems/ branches to grow long and lean with only flowers and leaves near the tips. If you prune each non-budding stem/branch back to just above the first sprouting/leaf above the last branch off, you should be able to maintain them with plenty of bushy leaves and blooms. If you prune a branch all the way back to where it has no leaf, you're likely to produce a dead branching.

If you want to cut the roses for using inside in a vase, cut them slightly longer than you ultimately want the stem. Then, once inside, put water in a pan or sink, and cut the stem again WHILE IT'S UNDER WATER. Otherwise, you will cause an air pocket and they won't be able to draw up water, causing them to not last very long. Cut the stem at a slight angle.

I hope you can enjoy roses in your yard soon!

Well, Brain, that's what I do!! Need help? Probably not. But let me know if you do! I do long distance planning.

Too bad you don't do long distance weeding!

I don't do short distance weeding! LMOA

I live in NC and I don't see many roses. I love floribunda and tea roses and mine are just about dead.

Our clay soil is likely the cause. I know roses don't like their roots to be impacted.

There is a brand of rose that does well here; for the life of me I can't think of the name, but they are very popular though they don't seem like a real rose to me.

I like the roses that you can cut and bring in.

I guess you have to 'bloom where you are planted' and that means that here we have other lovely flowers that do very well. I'll just have to get to love them.

Tootsie

Roses can be planted in clay soil. The area where I live has clay soil. You might have to amend the soil around the roots with sand or loam to let the roots grow. That's all that you really need to do.

In fact, out in my field where I do nothing, I have the most beautiful wild roses, Rosa woodsii, that you will ever see. They get no care from me at all and the only water they get is rainfall, which is very little. The soil is clay.

Roses will adapt to their environment very well. Mine thrive on neglect! This year, they've not had any fertilizer, and I've pruned them once. They are doing very well. They do get regular water and that's about it!

If roses thrive on neglect, why is the rosebush I planted all covered with little holes on the leaves and only had four flowers? I planted it this spring.

The soil is clay, I amended it with compost, it is in a partly shady area, and it's one of those roses with many petals (but I can't remember what it is) and it's a climber.

Is there something I should have done besides planting it and putting up a trellis? I do water it sometimes...