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Post by Rosefriend on Apr 11, 2014 16:52:37 GMT
First thing that I thought of when I saw the pics was caterpillars...tiny tiny ones - even rose sawfly larvae. Have you sprayed it with a system spray??
RF
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 11, 2014 16:55:36 GMT
Oh you could be right Rosefriend, I've seen a few of those around already but not on the Rose. I'll give it a spray tonight. Thanks a lot, I've cut it all off to an outward facing bud and hope it grows on ok. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Apr 11, 2014 16:59:42 GMT
Oh you could be right Rosefriend, I've seen a few of those around already but not on the Rose. I'll give it a spray tonight. Thanks a lot, I've cut it all off to an outward facing bud and hope it grows on ok. It will grow on OK, can't think that it wouldn't but I did hear of a trick to see what is eating plants, if it isn't easy to see as they are so small or the same colour etc. "Sprinkle with flour when the plant is wet & they'll become coated with flour, suffocate & fall off the plant"! I haven't a clue if it works but if you see loads of white things crawling all over the garden then I reckon you will find out what it is Ladygardener...not sure I would want to squish some of the things I find though!! RF |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 11, 2014 17:04:26 GMT
Eeeekkkkk I think I'll stick to the bug gun Rosefriend, I'm prone to nightmares. |
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Post by scarecrow on May 15, 2014 12:59:56 GMT
some of her indoors roses are failing to open any suggestions ??,
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Post by Rosefriend on May 15, 2014 13:17:17 GMT
Probably lots of reasons I would think scarecrow - from illness to being cut and kept at the wrong temperature...then being brought into the house which is even warmer than the supermarket/shop. At our local supermarket they get fresh cut roses (10 in a bunch) each day and there are times I can buy a bunch and they last for well over a week and other times they either don't open, open too quickly or let their heads droop within a few hours...must admit it is annoying. I tend to find that in summer the roses are better and I think that possibly the cut temperatures, the temps en route and then in the house are not sooo different, as against the winter months.. RF |
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Post by scarecrow on May 15, 2014 13:56:29 GMT
Probably lots of reasons I would think scarecrow - from illness to being cut and kept at the wrong temperature...then being brought into the house which is even warmer than the supermarket/shop. At our local supermarket they get fresh cut roses (10 in a bunch) each day and there are times I can buy a bunch and they last for well over a week and other times they either don't open, open too quickly or let their heads droop within a few hours...must admit it is annoying. I tend to find that in summer the roses are better and I think that possibly the cut temperatures, the temps en route and then in the house are not sooo different, as against the winter months.. RF It's growing over an archway not one from a supermarket |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 15, 2014 14:55:00 GMT
Sorry scarecrow - when you said indoor roses I thought you meant bought roses... OK - I will move this post to the Rose thread and try and answer it there... RF |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 15, 2014 15:56:56 GMT
It looks to me scarecrow as though is could be something like Balling where the rain soddens the rose bud and then the outer petals dry out or are scorched by the sun and stop the rose bud opening up properly... Suppose it could also be a touch of Botrytis blight but you really do not want to go down that road at all. With the weather that we have all been happening also Mildew...certainly rain/cold has played a part in the story..too much of it I think!! RF |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 17, 2014 5:29:17 GMT
Bad black spot on one of my roses - very early for that!! Olaf was saying that there is a lot of Black Spot, Rust and Mildew around this year...
RF
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Post by Chuckles on Aug 16, 2014 21:53:03 GMT
Major surprise today, found a cutting of Mrs Oakley Fisher that has flowered, well chuffed  I've also got a cutting of a red rose that has petals that are creamy yellow on the underside, not a clue what it is but its perfumed and very pretty. I'll get a photo to see if anyone can ID it. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Aug 17, 2014 4:05:45 GMT
Well done getting your cutting to flowering stage Chuckles. |
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Post by Chuckles on Aug 21, 2014 18:32:38 GMT
I was well chuffed with my Mrs OF cutting, I think Jasmine has her too. Must get her in a bigger pot for winter. This is the other cutting thats flowered, its lovely but I have no recollection when/where I got the cutting from. This is its second flower this year and it is perfumed. Any ideas anyone     |
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 21, 2014 19:41:06 GMT
That's very pretty Chuckles but I have no idea what it is - sorry. I have Mrs OF - got it from Great Dixter after seeing it in their rose garden. It's very simple and pretty. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Aug 22, 2014 7:54:11 GMT
 No idea what is is Chuckles but it's beautiful. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 4, 2014 8:37:45 GMT
This is definitely "sucking eggs" time for some but maybe a help for others... More than once I have said that when planting roses to make sure that the bud graft is about 5cms underneath the earth...for several reasons really... the cold, mounding up helps as well - more for the colder regions possibly, but it should always be done...the wet even - so that water doesn't just doesn't surround the bud graft (flooding an exception of course) and wind rock but also damage to the bud graft from hoes, any implement really, animals, fungi and pests etc... I found this pic which shows things very well..  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Nov 4, 2014 8:41:59 GMT
Rosefriend, it's always good to remind us of this as some of us are currently waiting on or planting bare rooted Roses. I did read or hear somewhere recently, I think it was amature gardener or something where they said to plant with the bud graft above the ground!!!! That was how they did things in the past was it?
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Post by Rosefriend on Nov 4, 2014 8:47:56 GMT
Rosefriend, it's always good to remind us of this as some of us are currently waiting on or planting bare rooted Roses. I did read or hear somewhere recently, I think it was amature gardener or something where they said to plant with the bud graft above the ground!!!! That was how they did things in the past was it? Yes that was done in the past - before my time...I was talking to Olaf about it not long ago and I said that the advice had been to plant the bud graft above the ground...erm, well - what he actually said I couldn't repeat, even in German, but he did wonder if the person that recommended it, had a horticultural training at all and that they wouldn't get a job at his Nursery!!! Obviously roses without a bud graft are different and standard roses as well, of course - well unless you happen to have a JCB around to cover the stems up. You can lay Standards down for the winter, when they are young - I only tried it once, I was petrified that I would break it in half.. RF |
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Post by Ladygardener on Nov 4, 2014 9:20:03 GMT
I never knew that about standars Rosefriend, I'd be too afraid to do it although I don't have standards. I'm not sure they would stand up to the wind around here. |
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Post by Geranium on Dec 23, 2014 6:50:47 GMT
My 'Lady Hillingdon' will have to be removed to get a new obelisk in place, and I'd like a different one instead as she wasn't ideal. Would 'Guinee' be all right growing on an obelisk? (I do realise that she'll have to be planted at the other side, away from Lady H's footprint).
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Post by Chuckles on Dec 28, 2014 20:00:25 GMT
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Post by Geranium on Dec 29, 2014 6:29:34 GMT
Hmmm, Chuckles,one site says it repeats well, the other says not. cshocked I do think it is a beautiful rose (I have it elsewhere) and it might work in my island bed with Clem 'Guernsey Cream' and C. vit. 'Alba luxurians'. I shall do some more research. Any rose I plant has to be white, cream or 'burgundy' as the bed is colour-coordinated. I've almost crossed off white and cream as they would be too similar in colour to the clems - no contrast. |
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Post by Tig on Feb 24, 2015 15:21:36 GMT
I have two roses which were rescues and neither has very strong growth, they are a bit spindly. There is no strong growth to cut back to, just general twigginess. What is the best way to try to get them to put some strong growth on? One is Burgundy Ice the other is as yet unidentified but has an open orange flower.
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 24, 2015 17:08:21 GMT
I have two roses which were rescues and neither has very strong growth, they are a bit spindly. There is no strong growth to cut back to, just general twigginess. What is the best way to try to get them to put some strong growth on? One is Burgundy Ice the other is as yet unidentified but has an open orange flower. Working on the basis that all thick stems shouldn't be cut back a lot and all spindly growth back hard, then I would really cut them back to one eye on all the "twigs" - this should tell them to get their act together and hopefully some of the sleeping eyes above the bud graft will waken and give you some lovely new stems as well. Feed them - not so much, again just enough to give them a nudge and then, as in all roses, feed again during the first flowering, no later than June , July as the new stems won't harden off for winter.. I've had to do this a few times when roses have frozen back totally or needed a bit of help...you may get a couple of really good roses... It may take around 6 weeks before sleeping eyes make an appearance... |
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Post by Tig on Feb 25, 2015 0:04:43 GMT
Thanks RF - it is so hard to be brutal with twiggy roses  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 25, 2015 7:26:53 GMT
Rosefriend, good and timely advice for all of us with Roses I think. I'm with Tig it's difficult to be brutal sometimes but I know it's worth it.
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 30, 2015 13:35:11 GMT
Looks like I may have some cuttings, these were done last year. It was an after thought to do them so they are either Meg or Summer Wine or could be both   |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 30, 2015 14:37:27 GMT
Chuckles, Well done, they're looking really strong and healthy. 
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 31, 2015 6:47:04 GMT
Well  for them, must be patient and leave them alone until later in the year. I'd be happy with which ever rose they are as both are on my fave climbing rose list. I have them growing together in the garden and when I pruned the bits were all together hence not nowing which they are. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 31, 2015 8:27:17 GMT
I'm guessing winter time when they're sleeping would be the best time to either plant them out or repot them, if they bloom this year at least you'll know what colour they are.  |
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I've also got a cutting of a red rose that has petals that are creamy yellow on the underside, not a clue what it is but its perfumed and very pretty. I'll get a photo to see if anyone can ID it.
