I have had MANY roses eaten by the freaking rabbits but the worst damage was done to Fantin Latour, The Poet’s Wife and Cornelia. They were eaten down to about two inches but all survived. You do have to be patient with them-that’s a lot of damage to overcome

I think they've got a chance, since they're own root, but I'd try to ence them off.

Oh yeah they definitely need to be protected during their time of recovery

Thank you all! should I move to a safer place or leave in the ground and find some way to protect? It's my pompon veranda so I'm very defensive of it!

A fence/cage would be good now. Sometimes I would wish I had left a plant in a pot if it is tiny but moving it now might cause further trauma. Hardware cloth cages would protect the baby from everything.

Leave it and fence it in my opinion

Had no idea rabbits did that. I have rabbits in my yard from time to time, but they leave my roses alone. Probably because they're stuffed from eating all the weeds in my yard. Squirrels are a different matter. They dig a hundred or so golf ball size holes every year.

Squirrels MURDER my crocuses. I was so thrilled to have little pops of color. And now I just see bulb remnants. I've contemplated hydraulic squirrel launchers to fling them into the stratosphere in retaliation. Or pellet guns. I'm a vegetarian and love animals but don't mess with my flowers.

Magda from BoTW is my spirit animal.

@Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR do you have any you recommend? really appreciate it!!

@Aaron Rosarian Zone 5b My kids and husband were in the living room with me the first time I ever did Magda's little shrine quest... They laughed and laughed at me, saying that I was just like that lol.

I have PLENTY of weeds for the rabbits to eat and they never touch them!!!!

We bought hardware cloth and made our own cages, Aaron. You'll need a wire cutter

/snippers.

Hopefully the plant will eventually be out of jail. I never tried to go after the rabbits. We are trapping gophers with the Gopher Hawk and have used Tomcat poison on voles inside cages protecting plants so our small dog doesn't get them.

The cages save heartache for sure.

Chicken wire may work too but hardware cloth is the best.

Aaron, if possible, you need to acquire two good cats that you can be outside with for part of the day. They are murder on voles, mice, keep squirrels down to a reasonable (none here), and are a good defense against rabbits, too. But you need to love kitties. Diane

I have two delightful cats, but I am not 100% sure they would stay in my yard. I'm in a suburb with very fast (and poor) drivers and would be heartbroken if I lost Lavender or Nutmeg :( I might take after my late grandfather and become a deadeye with a pellet gun :p

I understand, Aaron. We live in a better environment for having kitties outside with supervision. Our biggest worry is coyotes and they do go after cats. So our kitties are not just turned loose. Traffic isn't much of a problem. I love your kittlies' names. Ours are Clancy (ancient and senile), Finn, a total neurotic, and Barley, the giant, nosy, hilarious one. Diane

I use chicken wire and maintain a 6-12in circle around all my roses permanently, depending on their eventual size. That way, they wont be eaten down to the nubs. When Ive had similar damae, it has taken a while for recovery, but with a couple of exceptions they all did.

Aaron, I meant to respond to your recent post about a visit to Freedom Gardens. I hope to revisit this year and would be interested in the the name of the B&B you mentioned. It would be lovely to meet up as its been a few years since my last visit (pre-Covid). Maybe Summersrythm will come this year.. It also falls during my birthday and prior, it would be a rosey weekend including the Garden of Roses of Legend and Romance in Wooster and finishing with a trip to the Columbus Park of Roses, to help justify such a long drive. Since the Wooster Garden was destroyed, I havent made the trip. You should definitly try to include the TWO rose gardens in Columbus is possible. BTW, I maintain Peters HMF page if you want to take a peek. Not all roses are available for propagation and the listing is far from complete, but 850 varieties should keep you busy for a while!!! I had a complete list of his Tantau roses, but lost that in my Google hack. Ill post it when I get it again along with a link to the HMF page. There are two, but only one shows those grown in his garden which may be available for propagation.😉😊

I was thinking the Rocking Horse Inn on my birthday weekend--the first weekend in June :)

I sure hope your roses make it. Darn rabbits!

They are ugly, but the strofoam cones keep roses pristine

Hi Kordes Rosen:

Guten Abend!

What does the fact that Pompom Veranda is an ”exceedingly rare rose” in the US say about the job Star Roses and Plants is doing for you here?

Are you confident they’re not engaging in a subtle, horticultural industry version of journalism’s ”catch and kill”?

My understanding was it was withdrawn from the market due to suboptimal performance. There's a whole thread about it at https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3010902/looking-for-pompom-veranda-pompon-flower-circus-rootings-or-cuttings

Thanks Aaron. I didn’t know.

I do stand by my criticism of Kordes’ new representative in the US, pompom veranda’s demise here notwithstanding. Maybe we (Kordes fans) were spoiled by Newflora.

Has Kordes had any new releases latel?

Aaron!!! omgoshhh not pompom veranda!!! 😩😩 o hope she makes a full recovery. i was waiting to see yours bloom!

how are the roses doing? i have 2 tinny bands that had died back to the top of the soil, i dont understand how as other 4 bands were in the same condition… i dont see any new growh, maybe i will contact the seller, just have no clue who i bought it from lol

PV is showing a few little buds and (what I hope is) a little basal break. Pics to come! How are yours?