I think it hasn't adjusted to the temperature difference, and is probably sulking.
They aren't browning up or dying, they actually look pretty good, (other than the pesky wilting thing!!)..I think they'll be fine once they adjust.You should snap off the buds, though. Harsh, but true. Donna

Oh, ok. I didn't know that. I guess it redirects energy to producing healthier roots? I should have guessed. Thankyou!

Five days in the ground is nothing. Give it 2 or 3 more weeks to settle in--maybe even a month.

However, I'd hold back on the water til it has had a chance to dry out a bit. Roses don't like to be waterlogged, and your soil sounds overly moist at the moment.

You might set up a lawn chair to shade it, rather than putting a pot over it. I think you need more air flow and more light on and around the plant. The lawn chair only needs to shade it at high noon or perhaps late afternoon,if your western sun can get as brutal as ours does here in Kansas. But this early in the season, I would think some shade from noon til about 2 would be enough. But let it get some sunshine the rest of the time.

I think a month from now, it will be one of the best looking roses in your garden.

Kate

Did you leave the rose uncovered during the past couple nights when it was cold and there was a frost advisory? All the roses I took out of the pots this year and planted, wilted and sulked initially.....looking similar to your situation, although not as badly. My guess would be that it sulked initially from being planted, and now it's a little more shocked since the 35 degree night was followed up with a 40 degree night. I left my buds on my Pat Austin and WS2000 when they sulked, and I would give your Ramblins a couple more days as it will be warm from here on out. Check and see if you see an improvement over time and if they are perking up some. If not, you may have to prune off the buds to the nearest upright cane, and let it recover. I'm currently a learner when it come to roses at the moment, but that would be my advice to just wait a few more days and see what happens. I'd suggest staking and trying to get the buds/canes in an upright position, but they appear rather limp at the moment to even do that. Best of luck!

If you are getting some hot weather, shading it from the heat of the day would reduce stress. Sounds though, like you have had some unseasonably cold weather? Protecting it with a sheet or something at night to raise temperatures a few degrees would reduce stress as well. It's a little baby and needs help to get going, that's all.

You have an immature little rose with a lot of fine little new roots and a relatively large amount of top growth. The little rose is in a very fragile condition. All that top growth requires uninterrupted support from the root system which it must not be getting because the root system has to have been disturbed when the rose was planted. To prevent this from happening you need to very carefully remove the rose from the pot without disturbing anything. It must be as though the rose never left the pot. Now, having done that you still need to remove all those buds because the rose needs to use its' strength to get established, not produce blooms before it is able. If you do it right, the rose will then sit there for a while but not droop and then begin to grow. Since you planted it under adverse conditions nothing will happen for quite a while because the ground needs to warm up and you don't need to water it. Planting these little babies like you did is not a good idea anyway. I would have put it in a pot and let it get establishd probably for a whole year.

Thanks all. I know now that I should have potted it up I guess. But, I don't have a garage or warm enough shed in the wintertime to support protecting a rose. Not even a dormant one! I need to get this one established, because of our cold winters. I figured, the quicker it is in the ground, the more time it will have to establish itself. I will, though, put a chair over it for the next few days, to shade. We aren't supposed to get any rain either, and the best chances for rain are only 30% chance on Memorial Day. I will snap the buds off though. :)

Thanks all
kentstar

OK, I took the buds off. I also propped up two peices off lattice trellis to give some shade. I couldn't do the lawn chair thing because I have some clematis on their own trellises in the way. They too were just planted and doing
very well. Hopefully the lattice will give enough shade without shading tooo much.

I'm still trying to figure out what you are trying to grow. African violets? No, they aren't going to like all that sog. Ginger, maybe? Whatever it is, it likes shade, heat, and grows in a swamp. Lemon grass! That's it!

Since this is a rose forum, I'm assuming I'm totally misreading the situation, and you are actually trying to grow a rose instead of a tropical swamp plant. Unless you totally butchered the root ball getting it out of the pot, the move from pot to ground should be something the rose doesn't even notice. If it was properly hardened off (a much simpler task than most people seem to think) it shouldn't be bothered by the cold snap. What *is* going to bother it is being kept in the dark. And wet. Peat moss has got to be the most difficult stuff to manage on the face of the earth. It takes forever to get it wet, and once wet, it takes forever to dry. Evil. Then there is the manure. That is something that gets mixed into the native soil. It isn't what you use to replace the native soil. And unless it's been in the 90's and sunny, this whole mess may, MAY, need to have been watered once in the 5 days since it was first watered. I'm not sure I even want to know if you've gotten any rain. We've gotten enough this spring that I haven't watered any of the new moves.

So, step away from the rose. Far, far away from the rose.

I know I am in a different climate but I have planted smaller plants directly in the ground and they have done just fine. I don't even shade them either. I have planted babies in pots with the best potting soil and controlled environment and they have just sat there. That's the one that really irritates me!

I do usually pot up the smaller plants but the ones that have gone directly into the ground haven't given me any trouble. About 6 weeks ago, I planted a small Margaret Merrill directly in the ground and she's twice as big as she was when I got her - I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised!

Good luck with your rose - your plant is a very nice one and looks like it will take off real soon!

Lynn

Give it a shot of b-1

Please excuse me but mad_gallica I don't know whether you are being funny or what, but my post said I mixed the COMPOSTED manure with my native soil. I know better than to just use manure. Furthermore, my first roses I planted, I used some peatmoss too and they had absolutely no problem. In fact, they grew and bloomed their little heads off!
And, african violets, swamp grass, ginger? Of course it's a rose!
Maybe I'm reading YOUR post wrong, and if I am I apologize. But, there is no reason to sound so rude.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with me asking others on the forum for their suggestions about what to do. That is why this forum exists.

Kent--I think you have made all the sensible "corrections" you can for now. Henry's suggestion to prune off those buds was excellent--I should have thought of that also. Newly planted roses need to concentrate initially on growing their roots. Budding interferes with that.

The lattice shade should only be needed for a few more days. Then I'd expose the plant to uninterrupted sunshine--though if it still wilts at noon, you may need to bring out the lattice for a few more days.

I always plant my roses directly into the garden--just don't have time to mess around planting them twice, first in a pot and then in the ground. However, I never order the really tiny bands--maybe they do need more babying. But I don't think you identified your rose as one of those tiny bands, so I wouldn't worry about that issue.

I'm serious--a few more weeks, and it will probably be standing strong and starting to work on producing some new buds.

Kate

I had the same sort of experience with my Darlow's Enigma babies from HCR--they were delivered on a hot day and wilted (the inside of the box was very warm), and then suffered some leaf and cane limpness and dieback. I put the little pots in the shade, watered them, and left them alone for a couple days, and then planted them out in the ground (it was cool/rainy when I planted them)--they still wilted a little, had to cut off a little more, but my one that's left (other one got eaten) is doing well now, even sprouted a new cane out from under the soil. Just be patient, keep it lightly shaded if there's blazing sun for a couple more days (but not with a pot--it needs SOME air and light, you might be baking it under there during the day), trim off any parts that die back, check the soil every few days if there's no rain, and it will recover.

Mad Gallica - Do you ever give anyone assistance without first seeming so much superior than them? Why you feel it necessary to denigrate people is beyond me. Instead of spending time on the roses forum why not take a few moments and learn more about yourself. I've included a link for you here.

Here is a link that might be useful: An Option For You

I am in a blast furnace zone and I have never, ever planted a rose and worried about giving it shade. Newly bought roses go outside in their pots right away on my deck and I try to plant them in the ground within a day or two. Not that I always get to. Bands I plant in a one gallon container and let live on my sunny deck for at least a month.

And still wilting! I have held up on water, but I had to water today because it just keeps looking worse! I have shaded too for the last couple of days. Don't know what else to do.

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it's probably ready for sun, even though it's still wilty. I only shaded mine for a couple days, it needs some sun to start producing new growth.

You are right prairie-rose. I have today taken off the shade cover. Now, its up to nature.

One last thing, though--it looks like the canes are coming up straight out of the mulch. You might want to pull the mulch away from the crown of the plant, it can trap moisture and cause canker or rotting.

Hi, Kentstar. You've been a good sport listening to all this advice, so here're other suggestions. My best guess is that you shocked your plant and that your plant's young roots are reacting to the soil amendments. For now, less is more. Don't drown the rose. Do NOT fertilize it. Do NOT prune the rose. It can protest to the point of dropping all the leaves and still survive. One way of saying that is the proverbial, "Step away from the rose." You can't take that comment any way but as a joke with a kernel of truth behind it.

Water-don't water until after you rake back the mulch and use a garden trowel to dig down in the soil about 10 inches next to (but not touching the rootball) your rose. This is where you will test for soil moisture - not wet and not dry. The surface moisture isn't very instructive. In other words, put your pinkies in the soil.

Manure, Bonemeal and greensand - in general, the roots of young plants should never come into contact with your fertlizer amendments. In other words, don't fertilize young plants until they are growing well. Natural doesn't mean harmless. Even composted manures can be too strong for some young plants. The more amendments I add to soil before plant, the more time I give them to mellow and cure a bit in the soil before planting. Bone meal should be in the bottom of the hole, below the roots, not mixed into the soil. I suggest in the future that you amend your soil in advance (except for the bone meal or other source of phosphorus), water if necessary, and let is sit a few days to a couple of weeks if you buffer pH by adding lime. When you plant, put a layer of soil between your plant and the bone meal of super phosphate or whatever you use.

Weather - I seriously doubt 35 or 40 degrees had any effect on your rose. I garden in Zone 8-9, and grow cuttings outside all winter with no protection at all. Temps drop down below 20, and the plants are fine.

Planting Depth - In the future, consider planting own root plants deeper. The soil protects the canes from drying out while the plant adjusts to garden conditions. I'd plant up to the first set of branching canes.

Good luck.

berndoodle, good advice! I did prepare the soil in advance. It was amended actually a couple of weeks at least in advance. I did plant it deeper too. Maybe not deep enough? I planted the "crown" (and I say that loosely as there really isn't a crown on ownroots) 4 inches deep. I used a stake laid across the hole to gage the depth. I am going to step back from the rose now lol. I did contact HCR about the rose. We'll have to see what happens. Maybe they'll send a replacement which I WILL pot up first for a week or two first.

Well, then, your rose should recover. Or maybe you got a dud. Ag inspection, if it occurred, can be hard on a small rose. I've received them bone dry with almost no soil on the roots.

I appreciate your rush to get the plant growing before winter. Next time, pot up until your plant is pushing vigorous new growth, for however long that is. In the spring, it shouldn't take more than a month. On April 18 I bought very small roses I wouldn't dream of planting. They started pushing new growth a week ago. Or...buy from suppliers that send bigger roses.