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

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Dear Connie,

Sounds like your doing all the right things, and a bloom already,
how wonderful.  Isn't the fragrance wonderful.

My Louise Odier is in no way huge, she is just leggy, with flimsy,
pitiful side canes, and longer new canes.  I just wasn't sure of
her growth habit.  Others that have her assure me she will be a
dense smaller bush.

I'm sure mine is a little stressed, as she does have some blackspot, and the
wind was terrible on her.  This weather has been cold and wetter than usual,
I fear we don't get a summer this year, our spring sure was pitiful.  I'm
sure
that next year my Louise will be just fine.

I will prune her back in fall (instead of putting her on a pillar, or
pegging
her out) so the wind doesn't wreck such havic on her as it did last fall and
this spring.  Often I had to re-stomp the soil about her.  She will have a
full more year to get well established too.  Yours may well be fine with no
or very little pruning in late winter, as she is a repeat bloomer.

Sincerely,
~Carleen~

Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
         Rainier, Oregon

> From: Connie Peterson <cpthegreat@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

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