Inherited roses - but I'm clueless! Help!
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Help! I'm spongy and I can't get up!
Comments (12)Hello all! So sorry to have disappeared for so long! I thought I had set it up to email me when I got responses, but apparently I had not. Oops! Thank you all for your wonderful help! And especially, thank you Laura for your offer to help in person. I have some complicated and time-consuming issues going on right now, but eventually I would definitely welcome getting together with you! I've sent you a message with my email address. Yes, the caudex (such as it is) is indeed spongy. I like the idea about the mix shrinking, that makes a lot of sense to me. I think you're right about the gritty mix. I have no idea what my grandma potted it in, but it just looks like just your typical potting soil. And it looks like any nutrients have probably been used up by now. God knows when the last time this thing was repotted or fed/fertilized. I need to track down a more suitable pot, I think. With this one, I can't tell what kind of drainage I'm getting. When I get a chance to do that I will definitely follow SOP for root rot, should any exist, although I find it unlikely given the conditions in which it has been living. I did stop watering it daily. I've given it a small amount of water about once a week. Should I increase or decrease or is that acceptable? I feel dodgy about pruning it at this time because 1. it's not the right time for pruning, as I understand 2. it has so very few leaves, although I think this is not important with Adenium? The poor thing is in much the same condition it was at the time of my original post, though my husband thinks it looks even worse. And it has lost a few more leaves since then....See More'Inherited' my first rose - can it be saved?
Comments (5)Is the strong shoot very different from the rest of the leafs and canes? Rose varieties difer in leafs; shape, shine, color, number of leaflets.... New shoots are often green though the leafs should be about the same in shape color and texture when they are fully grown. If one of the canes differ from the rest and it comes from below the grafting point it should be removed. Often the grafting point is planted a few inches under the soil, it is not all ways easy to tell, though it sounds like your rose is alive not just the rootstock. The best you can do is fertilize, water if the soil gets dry and wait for bloom. If it is a once bloomer buds will come next year on the side shoots from the canes that is growing now, so don't prune it too hard in spring. ....Oh and remove the holly as soon as possible it is suffocating the rose. Plant the holly some where else :-)...See Moreneed help with inherited Hibiscus
Comments (2)The reason you prune in the spring is because you never know how much freeze damage will be done, plus when you prune in the fall if you get any warm weather it may start to put on tender new shoots which just will not like being frozen. You just need to wait for warmer weather to set in before you will see new growth. If you are worried it won't live though another year, save those seeds and start more. They are very easy to sprout....See MoreI'm clueless about what goes in my china cabinet (lots of photos)
Comments (29)"It's a house, not a museum. If you're only displaying stuff because it's pricey, antique, etc, then what's the point?" Ideefixe, I assume you are talking to me b/c I am the only one who didn't like the boxes. (Well, I like the boxes, just not in the china cabinet.) I don't think an object has to be pricey or antique to be displayed, but everytime I see those boxes, I picture a husband yelling "Honey, where did you put the stamps?" I think it is because the largest box has that silver rivet or snap on the side. They remind me of the canvas boxes that I just purchased at Target for my stationery supplies. They are pretty and functional, but their function doesn't seem suited to a formal dining room. Everything else in the OP's dining room is so polished and refined, the boxes feel like the odd man out. Just wanted to clarify so you wouldn't think that I'm a dollar-sign snob....See MoreSheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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