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How long does a rose plant live?
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Posted by nadianadia QLD (My Page) on Sat, Apr 1, 06 at 21:23
| I'm sure this question has more than one answer, but really how long does a rose plant live? |
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RE: How long does a rose plant live?
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| Hi again Nadia, This is a post that interests me because my mother is growing a rosy-red rose that was originally a cutting from the historic Ryde Cemetery in Sydney. I believe it to have been planted a century or more ago. I will take a pic one day and post in the hope it can be identified. It is truly beautiful and when I move it will be one of the first roses I will plant - from a cutting of course. I often wonder who planted the original and where it came from. I have an ancestor planted in that cemetery and have no guilt about taking the cutting. It may not survive unless it is more widely propagated in any case. Fran |
RE: How long does a rose plant live?
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| What I have read is that roses on rootstock last ten years maximum and own root roses can live fifty to a hundred years (some perhaps more) and that many of the newer roses won't grow on their own roots well. What is true and what isn't? I don't fancy digging up roses and rebedding soil every ten years. |
RE: How long does a rose plant live?
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| Well I may be wrong but I have always understood that HTs as a class are grafted onto stronger rootstock precisely for the reason that they would not survive long otherwise. There are some that are tougher than others eg Crimson Glory but HTs generally need looking after to survive. By that I mean they need a maintenance regime. Dieback is common on those left to their own devices. |
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