A suggestion...add your zone number to your GW profile. Lot of us respond primarily to other rose growers in like climates & I personally value advice more from cold climate rose growers because it relates better to my garden.

Hi,

fyi, I live in northern CA, so looks like it is in zone 9?

OK. You don't need Dr. Huey. if you keep that cane, you'll eventually Lose Judy Garland. You need to lose that, right down to the section of root -- underground -- from which it emerges.

No. I've never hear of a bud union a foot above ground. Not sure what to do with that. But I personally wouldn't worry about angle of growth.

Could you post an image of the bark that concerns you?

Jeri

Hi,

These are the links to the 2 bushes with descriptions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77626826@N06/7111746935/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77626826@N06/7111746495/

Would be nice if somebody can confirm it is indeed a Dr Huey.

Your plant sure looks like a tree rose, meaning it would have two bud unions, one to Dr. Huey (perhaps) roots and an intermediate stem, and one from the stem to Judy Garland. 'Judy Garland' is still sold as a 2ft tree rose, couldn't find anything online with 1 ft stems.

I kept thinking that too, a tree rose. A short one, but a tree rose none the less.

Well, I don't think they are tree roses. Here is what the bushes look like
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77626826@N06/7112725903/

So, are the pink flowers Dr. Huey? Is the cracking and peeling off of the root stock skin a concern? Is it ok for the root stock to tilt so much from the vertical? Any reason for the bud union to be so high above ground?

I've put your pictures into clickable links for you.

If it were me I'd dig them up and replant them deeper. But you're in a much warmer zone than I am so having the graft that high probably isn't as much of a problem for you. In my cold winters it would freeze and die.

Here is a link that might be useful: Picture #1

Picture #2

Here is a link that might be useful: picture 2

Picture #3

When you want to link to a picture go down below the post box and put the address in the "Optional Link URL" box and describe the link in the "Name of the Link" box below it.

OK, some body has to explain to me how you put multiple links in one post, lol?

Here is a link that might be useful: picture 3

Put the address in the message box (not the link box below it) and add the following code (with no spaces between--I'm putting spaces in so that the code isn't actually activated and you can read it).

Before the http address, put this--but do leave a space open after the letter "a"--eliminate all the other spaces:

Then after the http address, put this:

">insert here whatever descriptive phrase you want the viewer to read

Be sure to eliminate all the spaces in the coding, including that final bit containing the "a" after the slant line.

With that coding you can put as many links inside the message box as you wish. Hope my directions are clear.

Kate

Thank you, Kate, I'll give it a try!