| I walked into Bunnings and bought 8 roses at $5 each: bonica, masquerade, sexy rexy, double delight, radox boquet, the reeve, buff beauty and perfume delight. They're all bedded and fairly happy except for the one cane that isn't budding away - at that price one loss is acceptable, or so I tell myself except its radox boquet. I underplanted them with lobelia.
Does anyone have a secret weapon for kickstarting those young canes?
Darn, I planted the row of icebergs near the fence and they get zero hours of sunlight in winter. The iceberg supremes are happy as but the burgundies went into major blackspot and I pruned them down. (No they grew fine in complete shade, I just didn't have much of a pest routine going). I'm not relocating them,they'll just be pruned down in winter at the first sign of spottiness. Now I know , blackspot is a mould that lives inside the layers of the leaf and can't be killed by spraying only prevented...and has a lifespan that's hard to believe on garden tools and dead leaves. Bugger. |
