Re: Moving large roses?
- Subject: Re: Moving large roses?
- From: Joe Seals g*@yahoo.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:53:59 -0800 (PST)
Susannah:
I've always found "tame" roses to be remarkably
tolerant of being chopped, dug, and moved. (Despite
the fact that they take too much care otherwise.)
I've simply cut them back to canes only long enough to
provide handles (no longer) and then dug them as
carefully as I could without getting OVERLY compulsive
about it.
Joe
--- Susannah <susannah@cyber-dyne.com> wrote:
> Hello all --
> A garden I'm working on has three large old roses
> that are being shaded by
> nearby trees. (Clearly the trees have grown since
> the roses were
> planted.) I have no idea of the varieties -- I
> don't deal with roses much,
> except for wild ones. These are of the "ordinary,
> tame" type -- not
> climbers, and not the sort of old-fashioned tame
> roses that make a large
> suckering clump. They are around 5 or 6 feet tall.
> I planned to move them
> this winter (it's still winter here in Oregon) but a
> friend suggested today
> that tame roses might be much less tolerant of
> digging-up than the
> varieties I'm accustomed to. Any advice/opinions?
> I'm a gentle gardener,
> and would of course get the largest root ball
> possible and keep them well
> watered for the next few summers. Goes without
> saying :-). But is that
> enough?
> Thanks very much,
> -- Susannah
=====
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my garden always has something blooming
and birds galore
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