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     liza (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Rating: N/A |
okay thanks. | ||
| Dmaivn Senior Member Username: Dmaivn Post Number: 1778 Registered: 07-2003  Rating: N/A |
Lovely list of roses. I am sure you will be absolutely delighted with them after you fix them up. It's still early in Spring so you have just a bit of time to help the roses before the heat arrives. I am no expert but for a person who has just bought a house and inherite neglected roses like you I would suggest an emergency course of action to make sure you won't miss out this Spring performance 1/ Do late fertilising program (better than none) but be conservative. I would suggest getting a big bag of Dynamic lifter about 20kg. getting rid of the weed and spread the pellets over them. I think 20Kg would be enough for the number of roses you have. Also soak about 1Kg in water overnight and use that as "liquid fertiliser" to water the roses for a faster kick in the buts. 2/ Put some mulch or bark on the ground to keep the moisture and water them well. Soak the ground once a week. Do not spray on the leaves! 3/ Clean up the bushes a bit. Too late for pruning. Just clean up some poor looking stems or those that are too tall and too leggy. 4/ For the green bug, shoot them with Rose Shield once (would be enough). My Rose spray list has come down to only 2 items: Rose shield and Triforine. I buy the concentrate and mix them myself and use a small household sprayer. Also spray Triforine as Blackspot fungus will attack early in Spring. However if you hate spraying chemicals, I would say you just hose the bugs off with a water jet. Then all you need to do is to join this forum and learn from many experienced people here. I ams ure you would have nice blooms to share with people in 4 weeks after the initial course of treatment. | ||
| liza (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Rating: N/A |
oops i signed the geustbook rather than make a thread to aks this qudstion. Hi I moved into a new house and the whole garden is roses. There is a small magnolia tree and panzies but thats it. Can anyone give me a hand telling me how to look after them and what I need? Books don't make sense at all. The real estate agent gave me a list of all the roses in the garden but they don't make sense to me and i just didn't realise the gurdan was all roses when I bought the hosue. I don't want them to die. Any suggestions. oh and none of them have flowered yet, except one thats pink and on the fence. Liza sorry, forgot to add the roses are westland, iceberg, double delite,koresia, angel face, capm david, lincoln, tatjuana,sepherine druin,big purple, william lobb, fancis dubreal, souvenier jamain (??), saint patrick, tequila sunrise, blue moon, fragrant plum, old vagrant, britten, stars and stripes, lemon ice, pandemonium, moulin rouge, wobborn abbey, joy of life, queen elizabeth, moulin rouge, rosario. oh and they have lots of green bugs on them!!! |
