Was I sent Cl. Duchesse de Brabant by mistake?
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
8 years ago
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Full StoryI ordered the bush form and received it at the end of January but it doesn't look like the other two Duchesses that I grew previously which had a graceful habit and were rounded bushes. Unfortunately they did not prosper due to poor soil and too much sun in their spot. I decided to try again, in a much better place and the Duchess grew like gangbusters, but after six months this own-root rose is a gangly specimen with two long canes circled by a bit of short twiggy growth. I cut the long canes down by about half a foot and have pinched off all the new growth at the top, although it keeps coming back up. There is also some new growth further down which I want to encourage. Does anyone have the climbing form of this rose and does it have this habit? If this is the climber, do I have any hope at all of making a bush out of it if I don't allow any new top growth?
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