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re: pruning


When my roses start looking "ratty" because of heat, disease etc, I PRUNE
them down to about one foot from the ground, feed and water well-it works
every time.

                                        Adrienne from New Orleans



At 04:29 PM 7/2/1998 EDT, you wrote:
>Just purchased 2 Flower Carpet shrub roses which will ultimately reach 6 ft. 
>They're in 3.5 gallon pots,  are about 3 ft. high, have many pencil-thin canes
>and
>a couple of sturdy ones and are scrubby looking. What  suggestions does anyone
>have about sprucing up these very hardy, own-root roses? They'll be planted
>7-3-98
>and will be along a stockade fence w/ about 6 hours of sun. They otherwise
>appear 
>to be healthy and happy with some nice cluster blooms. Their habit, I'm told,
>is
>vase-like rather than mounding.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.
>
>Joanie, Zone 5 (hot & humid)
>
>
>
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