Help save the rose!

[vfem]

Ok, so my mom planted a yellow rose bush in her yard about 13 years ago now. For the past 7-8 years now she stopped caring for it and my father just mows over it. Last year the mower broke and the yard got QUITE tall. One day I see this sorry little yellow rose, all along growing on a single stem from a lump in the ground. We just realized there was a plant still there! My mom paid quite a bit of money for those roses (some huge name, if I hear it I'd know it).

So I want to pull the thing up and see if its savable. I'm not a quitter and sure will trying anything! I'd like to remember what kind it was... I was concerned it it was a grafted rose on root stock, the grafted roses may be gone. I wouldn't think that the roses from the root stock would just happen to be the same color as what she bought though?

Anyways, going to dig it up this weekend... any advice?

 

[thistlebloom]

V to the rescue!

Roses can be amazingly tough!

Just get a sizable root ball, roses are fairly shallow rooted so you don't need a huge hole.
Replant and water in well. Now, wasn't that easy?

If it's still has yellow roses then the graft is still viable. Canes that sprout from the rootstock will be red and single ( as opposed to a fluffy double with more petals ).

Was the company Jackson and Perkins? Weeks? David Austin?

 

[vfem]

V to the rescue!

Roses can be amazingly tough!

Just get a sizable root ball, roses are fairly shallow rooted so you don't need a huge hole.
Replant and water in well. Now, wasn't that easy?

If it's still has yellow roses then the graft is still viable. Canes that sprout from the rootstock will be red and single ( as opposed to a fluffy double with more petals ).

Was the company Jackson and Perkins? Weeks? David Austin?

Awesome! My mom insists its done for, and she says she 'knows' roses so she was going to dig it up and chuck it. I REFUSE to let her do it. She doesn't care for plants well, and she really doesn't have time to mess with them either. They can barely keep up with their grass. It's too the point she want me to take the dogwood I bought her too... she says it hasn't grown an inch in 5 years and she's done with it! Crazy huh?

Anyways, the rose was from Jackson and Perkins for sure! I need to go look up the rose on their site... i'll know it when I see it.

THANK YOU!

 

[vfem]

Ok, here it is! Though they never looked as pretty as the picture and I know tea roses can be hard to care for.

http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/rose-henry-fonda-hybrid-tea-pp9390/p/28568/

 

[thistlebloom]

That's a beauty, and fragrant too, which to me is the whole point of roses. Usually when people complain that their plants aren't growing it's a water issue. Not enough, deep enough.

I found an interesting recipe for rose fertilizer that I'm going to use this year, it claims fantastic results.
You can check it out here: http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Alfalfa-Meal-Tea_vq2223.htm

 

[catjac1975]

Ok, so my mom planted a yellow rose bush in her yard about 13 years ago now. For the past 7-8 years now she stopped caring for it and my father just mows over it. Last year the mower broke and the yard got QUITE tall. One day I see this sorry little yellow rose, all along growing on a single stem from a lump in the ground. We just realized there was a plant still there! My mom paid quite a bit of money for those roses (some huge name, if I hear it I'd know it).

So I want to pull the thing up and see if its savable. I'm not a quitter and sure will trying anything! I'd like to remember what kind it was... I was concerned it it was a grafted rose on root stock, the grafted roses may be gone. I wouldn't think that the roses from the root stock would just happen to be the same color as what she bought though?

Anyways, going to dig it up this weekend... any advice?

When we moved into our house 35 years ago we were poor as dirt. The only plants I could then afford were volunteers from my mother's garden. In clearing a cedar woods for our vegetable garden I spotted 2 rose bushes. I use the term bushes with a lot of creative license. I transplanted them to a sunny area and the single pathetic stem that was each bush turned into 2 climbers. They could be over 100 years old as the area clearly had not been a garden for a very long time. They bloom profusely every year with a little fertilizer.

If you are moving it to your own property one day you will really appreciate having your Mother's rose bush.
It's worth the little work required.

 

[vfem]

Awesome Cat... I'm queen of patience and have babied a lot of saved plants back to life. We're broke of course, so everything has come from seed, trade, salvage, cuttings, gifts... ect ect. And we have quite a happy landscape after only a few years of love and patience.

 

[peteyfoozer]

I've always used rabbit pellets (alfalfa) and Epsom salts around my roses. I think it is for the nitrogen and potassium...anyway, it kind of works like a slow release and my flowers got HUGE! I side dress it in the spring and summer :weight

 

[vfem]

I do have bone meal I use for my roses that I do have... I will add a bit to the hole when I transplant this one. Going to try to get over there on Sunday to get it.

 

[thistlebloom]

I've always used rabbit pellets (alfalfa) and Epsom salts around my roses. I think it is for the nitrogen and potassium...anyway, it kind of works like a slow release and my flowers got HUGE! I side dress it in the spring and summer :weight

Hey Petey! That's what that recipe I saved is. Only they say to put it in a trashcan full of water and let it ferment for at least 3 days. You can fill the trashcan with water a second time. The fermentation promotes all the little micro-organisms in the soil.
You can also sprinkle the pellets around too without soaking them. Is that how you do it?