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| Jen from the USA | To keep your roses preserved, take them and press them in a book and put books on top of those books for a whole week. Take them out and carefully frame them. After that take a hammer and gently tap the frame all around to make sure not alot of air can come in.. |
| Robert from the USA | I have been growing climbing and regular plant roses for years and this year will be a banner year for the climber. I started feeding it in the winter with banana peels cut up into small pieces and early in the spring I began to provide rose fertilizer periodically and I am expecting the heaviest grouping of flowers I have ever had...there are oh so many new upshoot, each which has as many as 6 buds per shoot...it w ill be solidly covered with roses and the work was worth while.. |
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Janko from the UK |
About the Queen Elizabeth Rose - my mother used to grow them - they were a great favorite. They are very vigorous and do grow tall, and are very strong. As for not flowering, my first thought was that your reader had overfed it, causing considerable green growth. But my second thought is that she should persevere with the Rose, using nothing more than well rotted horse manure, and to prune it well. I cannot recall where your reader lived, but February/March time in the UK is the best time to dealt with the formative pruning. The plant needs to think it is being killed, to produce strong shoots and flowers. All that new growth really needs to be taken off so that the rose puts its energy into regenerating itself. Please keep going with it - they are such splendid roses. By the way, I hope it is in full sun? Otherwise, the plant could be just reaching for the sky. Best wishes. Moya Janko (Gold Medal Winning Garden Designer and Horticulturist). |
| Cherry from Australia | A home brew for roses: which seems to prevent attack from both fungi & insects: 10-litre bucket. Agitate a pure soap such as laundry cake soap to create good lather. Then mix in 7 tsps. of baking soda nd the appropriate quantity of pyrethrum concentrate, as per the pack instructions. This has proved to be effective against black spot, rust and powdery mildew as well as insect attacks from aphids, thrips, and caterpillars. Spray this brew every 3 months to keep bushes clean of problems. |
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