[Rose-list] Re: [oldrose] How to Train this one.

**C* P* <c*@usinternet.com>**

My Louise is just a baby - only about 8" high, right now.  I would be interested
in knowing just what to do with her.  I thought she'd be a small bush, but as I
hear more about her, I am beginning to wonder!

I planted her last Monday (June 21), and she had a bud on her that bloomed that
week.  This is the rose I planted out at Murphy's Landing in memory of my
sister.  I put bone meal down, and put some liquid fertilizer in the water when
we planted.  I have wood chips around her to keep weeds down.  And I water her
almost every day (the soil drains very well).  She has new growth on her,
already!!

Connie

rosenlund wrote:

> From: "rosenlund" <rosenlund@transport.com>
>
> I have a newer 'Louise Odier' and I'm not sure how I will handle her.  What
> do you think?  How does yours grow?
>
> I've thought of these ideas...
>
> 1) Prune well as I do most of my shrub roses and keep as a "restrained"
> bush?
> 2) Peg and let her "spider out"?
> 3) Girdle (tie up canes up high, like a bouquet) and let the canes
> "umbrella" down?  Mine does get blackspot in early spring, so this might not
> be a good solution.
> 4) Support with 3 foot high "hitching rails" or a hoop of sorts, letting the
> canes "pour" to the ground?
> 5) Perhaps pillar this rose?
>
> I don't see that she blooms or grows off her lateral canes like most old
> roses.  Appears to come off smaller canes near the base or strong new canes
> altogether.  Mine sits at a corner of a square-ish island with perennials
> and a lawn path surrounding the island.
>
> Sincerely,
> ~Carleen~
>
> Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
>          Rainier, Oregon
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