Re: Easy rose trend

**"* H* <g*@charter.net>**

I was also at the meeting cited below.  Radner said, "The number of blooms
on Knock Out will be reduced significantly if you deadhead."  This is a
direct quote..
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Ulrich" <cultivated@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Easy rose trend

> I asked someone who recently interviewed Bill Radler (hybridizer of
> Knock Out) about the deadheading issue. Below his reply:
>
> *********
> I was at the Boerner Botanical Gardens Annual Meeting and Bill was the
> keynote speaker. He gave a long presentation and it went into great
> detail. The deadheading issue came up in his talk.
>
> Although I recall his comment was more a caution that deadheading Knock
> Out was a waste of time rather then actually causing harm. More like,
> you need to deadhead other roses to induce more blooms, but that is not
> necessary with Knock Out. It will continue blooming.
>
> ***********
> Maybe this will put this issue to rest.
> Carolyn Ulrich

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