How to rejuvenate an old rugosa rose?
Debbie Downer
12 years ago
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Comments (18)Beautiful, Diane. I love the chubby bouquet. Noseometer, I love my spins. They are the most adorable naturalistic plants. They were such a delight in Alaska I cannot tell you. I needed them here too I decided, and they do great here too. I have acquired them from Vintage, Corn Hill, High Country roses and Greenmantle. I scrounged some from Leonard Heller who had/has a facebook page on Spinosissimas. I bought some from an old lady in Homer, Alaska at "Achin Acres" as she was shutting down. North of Anchorage an old lady had a "Washburn Farm Nursery" that sold some, but I got news on good authority that she mixed the names up on purpose to confuse the competition. They seem to be the roses that owners love and many people have never heard of. Rogue Valley Roses gave me Dominie Sampson. You really have to keep your eye out for these treasures. Peter Boyd was going to write a book on them which never appeared, but he has good articles on the web. Dominie in front of Doorenbos Selection....See MoreOld Rugosa Jens Munk.....needs attention
Comments (2)Water and food needed, i think. The neighbouring tree will be taking a lot of moisture and nutrients from the soil. Is the rose in much shade. If so, perhaps you can think about raising the crown - you might call it limbing up - to let more light in for the rose. Rugosas are tough by nature but it does sound in need of some TLC. Also, you might want to think about doing some regenerative pruning and thin out the centre as much as you can. Remember, growth follows the knife so be bold....See MoreRugosa Roses, other NO care roses? :-)
Comments (19)woolywoof, your availability of hardy roses probably has more to do with being in Canada than being in zone 4. If I head to nurseries in zone 4 New York, the situation is likely to be even more dire than it is here. Lack of availability of roses that do what I want roses to do is probably part of the reason I became so interested in rooting cuttings. Several wonderful roses are probably better known as pass along plants than in the nursery trade. This unfortunately doesn't make me a very good source of information as to where you should get your roses. I've bought more roses from Mike Lowe than any other source. He's in Nashua. Is Mike still in the nursery business? I don't know. Pickering, as mentioned, is a good source. I know Paul has gotten a bunch of his roses from Spring Valley in Wisconsin. I've heard nothing but good things about Spring Valley. I've often wanted to order from Corn Hill in New Brunswick, but never come up with a big enough order to make it work out. Corn Hill is Robert Osborne's nursery. If you don't have his book "Hardy Roses" you should. You should also have Suzanne Verrier's books. You want to avoid the nurseries that ship little twigs. For the money nurseries charge, you want them to send you a real plant. I'd like to be able to recommend Ashdown, but I've never ordered from him. Oddly enough, most of my recent purchases have come from Sequoia. Certainly Ralph Moore has no reason to specialize in hardy for the northeast roses, but he does have some neat oddments that I can't get anywhere else. He ships little twigs, but at least the price reflects this....See MoreLooking for tips on keeping Rugosa Roses contained/in shape
Comments (5)I ordered a soil test today, actually! It should arrive in a few days. They have not re-bloomed well at all--they obviously used to thrive, so whatever I can do to get them there I will do. They had a lot of weird yellow bud problems, which some in this forum determined was bud drop, and I decided not to worry about that because the same bushes that had bud drop DID rebloom. Thank you so much for responding. I will keep an eye on the dead looking canes and just remove the ones that don't do much. I don't have any hybrid teas that survived, they are all doc huey now, but I was mostly curious if there was anything I was missing on these. Looks like I'm not....See MoreKrista_5NY
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