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Hi, I'm Daphne Richards
our question this week is on moving roses, when's the right time?
Was most other rose chores such as pruning and planting
late winter's a good time for moving them to other areas of your garden
if you need to. I had to move my roses just last year
after I discovered that I needed about a foot more space for drainage
from my roof into the rose bed and moving roses is no small task.
Even after having only been in the ground for a year my roses were a bear
to dig up.
The main roots were already over inch in diameter
making them very difficult to pull up and I ended up needing to cut a couple
of them.
Many plants would not have tolerated this abuse but my roses bounce right back
with been reestablished very quickly. Since they're so tough
if you have to move roses at other times of the year they'll likely do fine
although maybe not recover quite as quickly as during cooling times a year
but it's best to avoid moving them in the summer as it is with most plants.
Summer's too stressful already
without adding the added stress of having life-giving routes torn apart.
If you want to add a little compost to your new rose bed
go ahead and do that but avoid fertilizing until the plants are growing again.
It's best to go ahead and do your normal pruning before moving your roses
that makes it easier to grab a hold of the beefier stems when you're trying to
uproot it
and do your best to hold the plant at the base if you need to work your way
under it while digging. Smaller stems may break and create wounds for
insects and diseases to invade. Our plant this week is also a rose
and one of my very favorite types a David Austin rose. David Austin's a rose breeder
from England and over the years he and his team have bred countless
gorgeous rose cultivars.
David Austin roses are also known as English Roses
and they combined the best antique roses with the best modern rose
characteristics.
Many of them have so many pedals that they look more like peonies than roses
and the colors are amazing from deepest crimson reds
to delicate creamy apricots and everything in between.
Although not all are fragrant many of them are and amazingly so.
My favorite and my pick this week is Sharifa Asma
which is a real stunner in my garden. Sharifa asma is a prolific bloomer
so prolific in fact that I have a hard time finding a window to prune it, when
it won't be showing off precious buds
and although I'm sure they're more fragrant roses out there
Sharifa Asma belongs on any list of most fragrant.
I often take bouquets to my office and colleagues from ten yards down the hall
always wander down to ask what that fabulous fragrance is.
English Roses sometimes get a bad rap for being a little finicky
and having some issues that make them problematic and I'm sure that's true of
many cultivars
so be sure to do your homework on each particular rose before you plant
or just be willing to take a shot on a stunning beauty
that you just can't resist and see what happens. With so many roses out there
nurseries can't possibly carry them all so you'll likely need to shop for many
the David Austin roses online.
You can either order from David Austin roses directly they have a nursery in Tyler
or from specialty rose nurseries. You likely have a choice of
grafted or own root plants and I think you have better luck with those that are on
their own roots.
Our viewer picture the week is another fabulous rose,
cramoisi superieur, viewer Janet Riley has found that with just a little
extra soil preparation roses perform as well as the tough natives in her garden.
This week in your garden begin preparing the soil for spring planting
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to send us your questions and plants from your garden.