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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: BazaJT on 11 August 2017, 20:18:47
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About 3yrs ago I bought a rose for the garden,I don't know what the name of it is but it fulfilled the only essential I had for buying one in that it was a white rose.As it turns out the blooms are only about the size of a 10p piece.Anyway the first year it only had 5 flowers on it,which I put down to it getting established.Last year it had 15 flowers,but these didn't appear until late October!This year[two or three months ago]it again got 15 flowers and when they died off I figured that was it for this years crop,however there are now a further 19 buds,some of which are already beginning to flower with the rest looking pretty healthy and good to go.Is this double crop a fairly normal occurrence? I don't recall having seen this happen before.
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If you dead-head then I believe it can be quite common.. I've already had two lots of flowers on both rose bushes in the back garden.
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I'm no horticultural expert, but I do know about DEflowering! :P
Ron.
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If you keep dead heading them new buds will come on. This is true of a lot of summer flowering plants. How do i know this? :-\. Because SWMBO told me. ;D
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You need to start watching Gardeners World Baza! :y
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I dead head mine by pruning back to just above first "five leaves".you can go back further if that point will result in new growth going in an unsuitable direction.
Quite a few years back we had a neighbour that hard pruned his roses by wielding a chainsaw. Despit leaving loads of ripped cuts, they did well.
Roses have been a joy here as no mildew problems
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Will have to give this dead heading malarkey a go.I've previously just left it alone until later in the year and then jut cut it back.Percy Thrower I ain't ;D
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I'm no horticultural expert, but I do know about DEflowering! :P
Ron.
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Eggzacterly what I was thinking, bet his lordship could tell some stories about de-flowering, :o