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Problems with double knock out roses

11 years ago

It has now been 10 days since we made our flower bed and planted everything.

80% clay, 16% topsoil, 4% miracle grow garden soil.

We feel like we have most of the plants headed in the right direction, but the roses we are not sure about.

When we first planted the roses we watered them 3 times in the first week, but some of the leaves started turning brown so we upped it to once a day, it still has brown leave...more I believe, but now a lot of the blooms look really bad, and I just find it hard to believe that they are still being under watered, especially since the clay does not drain that well, but I can't see that they are being over watered either because if they were over watered why would more leaves be turning brown?

So I don't know what we are doing wrong.

Here are some pictures I took this morning:

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Comments (3)

buford
11 years ago
The blooms are brown because they are spent. You can remove those to encourage new growth.

The plants look healthy. When you plant or transplant, you can't really expect blooms right away. The roses will be concentrating on putting down roots so they can absorb the water you are giving them. I'd cut down the watering (unless the ground is dry) and just give them time.
t_bred
11 years ago
The second picture shows lots of red leaves which is healthy new growth. Buford is correct,just snip off the old blooms. The plants look very healthy to me.
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kyleax1
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I cut off the older, uglier, looking blooms and cut off all the dead leaves. Thanks for the info guys, I feel much better about them after hearing what yall had to say.

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