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Transplant now or later?

dublinbay z6 (KS)

7 years ago

I just realized today why that one (of three) low-growing roses around the birdbath isn't low-growing and has redder leaves and long stems and bigger buds. Palatine switched tags on my order and last month I planted the 3rd low-growing rose over in the center of the rose garden and the taller hybrid tea that was supposed to be there is planted at the foot of the bird-bath with other two low-growing roses.

Don't know why it took me so long to realize that taller rose by the bird-bath looks nothing like the low-growing ones, but regardless, now I'm faced with a choice.

1) Switch them around right now while the weather is still relatively cool and luke-warm--even though they are in bud and I'll probably lose the buds.

2) Let them bloom and then switch them around in a couple weeks--even though hotter weather will soon be following and it will be harder for the roses to settle in.

Which option do you recommend?

OH, they were nice sized plants growing in containers when I got them and were planted about a month ago.

Kate

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ValRose PNW Wa 8a

7 years ago

A rose that has only been out of its container for a month or two can pretty much be treated like it just came out of the pot. It would be easiest on the plants to moved now. If you really care about saving the buds, then you can wait, just take care to preserve the newly established roots and water a lot until well established. If it were me, I'd move now to minimize shock to the plants.

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garden nut z9b
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
i would do any transplanting now whilst its cool or wait till fall i had to transplant several month old plantings and i made sure to keep them watered while they settled back in
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cecily
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If I knew that a rose was in the wrong place, that would drive me crazy and I'd have to move it immediately. I admire your forbearance. Seriously, I'd move it now -- we're having an unusually cool spring in the mid Atlantic so you likely are too.
Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
7 years ago
I vote for now before the rose settles in. Move it towards evening maybe there won't any shock.
dublinbay z6 (KS)
Original Author
7 years ago
Thank you, everybody. In thinking it over, I gave one piece of mis-information. All the roses in question came to me as bare-roots in very early April. I confused this order with another order I had for some container plants.

I'm inclined to go with the consensus here and transplant now--but given the fact that they were planted as bareroots in early April, does that info. change anyone's advice?

They are all looking really, really healthy, so no problems there.

Kate
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
7 years ago
Now ...
dublinbay z6 (KS)
Original Author
7 years ago
OK--Jim has cast the deciding vote! LOL
seil zone 6b MI
7 years ago
Do it now. The conditions are better for moving roses when it's cool rather than later on when it starts to get hot...if it ever does, lol!
Cindi_KS
7 years ago
From a fellow Kansan...our weather the next week is supposed to be cool and rainy, which of course is perfect conditions for transplanting!

I'm moving all sorts of things, hoping to get the yard in shape before heat hits again in June. I really really hate moving roses, but I have a few that almost doubled the size they were supposed to attain. Music Box (a miniature!) is 7 feet tall and 6 feet wide, and of course it is in the front of a bed, towering over a bench and blocking all the other roses behind it. Blocking the AUSTINS behind it!!! Why on earth is that called a mini when the leaves and blooms are all full size?

Kate, one thing I would do before moving your newer rose is cut off the blooms.
dublinbay z6 (KS)
Original Author
7 years ago
Just finished transplanting those roses. Yes, Cindi, I noticed the upcoming weather is perfect for transplanting--since they were growing so well before I dug them up, I hope the transplanting doesn't set them too far behind.

And yes, I took a deep breath and cut off all the buds on the hybrid tea, but not the multitude of tiny buds on the low-growing spreading rose. I'll keep an eye on it the next few days and see if it needs to be pruned back more also.

In case you were wondering, the three (now matching) low-growing roses around the birdbath are Toscana Vigorosa (red) and the hybrid tea now residing correctly in the middle of the rose garden is Broceliande (striped). Don't know where I got the courage to clip off the buds on Broceliande--nor how long it will take her to make more buds now. I'll take pics if she ever gets there!

Kate
Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
7 years ago
Cindi, I'll bet you were sent Music Box hybridized by Ping Lim. Does this look like your rose? 'Music Box' Rose - HelpMeFind.com
professorroush
7 years ago
Good move, Kate....definitely now given the weather...I moved several this morning myself.
Donna Roesink Zone 6a Ohio
7 years ago
I moved a Tropicana last tuesday. It was a bare root from Brecks last year at this time. The weather has been cool and rainy here since them, and it looks like it has hardly missed a beat. Glad your moves look good, dublinkay.

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