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Posted by navy_blue VICAUST(Central VIC) (My Page) on Mon, May 9, 05 at 8:35
About to plant 10 standards. The soild condition is quite good. Introduced new soil and current plants, especially honeysuckle hedge is growing very well in it.
Thinking of planting Seduction roses as they sound quite hard and flower alot and my wife wants them !!!!
What else should I do to prepare the soil? Going to plant bare rooted roses so I gues I plant in July I presume. Not sure when the bare root stock come in.
A little bit of dynamic lifter and peas straw I hav already. Will this be sufficient? Dont really want to go out and purchase uneccessary nutrients, ie manure etc.
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RE: Planting standard roses
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- Posted by lozza Vic. Oz. (My Page) on
Mon, May 9, 05 at 20:12
Here is a link that might be useful: working the ground.
RE: Planting standard roses
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The most important thing with standards is to stake them well. Dig a hole that is nearly twice the size of the roots ball. Put some long acting fertiliser in the base of the hole. Use wooden tomato stakes or similar, the height of the stem, plus an extra 30 cm or so to go into the ground. Drive the stake into the ground before you plant the rose. Back fill the hole with a little rich soil, and spread the roots out over the mound of soil, with the stem placed against the stake. Tie the rose to the stake in 2 places, using plant ties or lengths of planty hose. Back fill the hole over the roots with good soil, and water in well.
You can mulch fairly heavily with pea straw, right up the the stem. Roses like this. Spread a little lime over the mulch to encourage earth worms to work it into the soil.
If you belt a stake in to the ground after the rose is planted, you can easily damage the roots, and this will cause shoots to come up from the root stack. |
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| Not being a pain but I do strongly disagree with the fertilizer in the hole bit. Especially with bare rooted plants ,let alone potted. Pete |
RE: Planting standard roses
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Hi Navy Blue
i would say adding any extra nutrients to the soil would be a waste at that time of year as the plant is dormant,just make sure you water them well to push out any air that may be in the back fill let the plant settle then come late august early sept give them a feed
Remember if you are buying bare rooted they will be a year younger than if you bought them in a pot (thats if you can find any right now) i have never been a fan of bare rooted roses.Right now is the best time to go searching for roses in pots in most cases you are a getting a 3 year old rose at 2 year old price and i also second the motion to make sure they are securely staked seduction can get very heavy in the head when in full bud |
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OK - point taken - being an iris grower - irises are very heavy feeders and like a bit of fertiliser added to the soil beneath the roots, and are usually planted bare rooted in the growing season.
I actually plant most of my roses potted :-) I like to buy them when I can see them in bloom, and it is so much easier to dig a hole and plonk them in without having to spread roots. Ofcourse staking them is different then - you have to drive the stake through the potted roots and beyond into the ground.
BTW - I bought my standards bare rooted last winter, and potted them with bamboo stakes, until the garden was ready. After planting, I made a mental note to buy stakes, but got caught out by a wild storm, which bent most of them over, and ripped one out of the ground. It showed me how amazingly supple their stems are. I didn't have one single standard damaged out of 9. I staked them properly the morning after the storm :-)) |
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| I agree watch the fertilizer in the hole. Roses are difficult to kill but I have done so with fertilizer in the hole. HTH |
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| Hi All Change of heart went for good olf Standard Icebergs. Got them in pots all 10 of (3 foot) for $160. Thought that was all right. They looked healthy so bought them. They are still flowering.......... Have planted them now. Bought new and bigger stakes so they are sturdy, but had to drive them through the root ball ang potting mix when planted. That should not damage the roots too much should it? Anything else I should do? Sprinkle a bit of Blood n Bone? Guess I should water them every couple of days for a week or so so they acclimatise to the soil and conditions? Since they were potted, will they still grow allright this time of the year considering I could not wait for bare rooted standards? |
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| sparaxis..you got lucky!....stake them well on planting...not the morning after a storm!....just saying........ |
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| Any ideas where to position one tall one in the front yard of a cottage? |
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