Re: Roses for shade - reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Roses for shade - reply
- From: V*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:21:30 EDT
A word of caution about roses in the shade: worse even than the shade itself
can be the roots associated with those things that produce the shade. I once
planted Mme Isaac Perriere (I think it was) and the poor thing would send up
shoot after shoot that would die almost immediately. When I finally pulled it
out, my beautiful, carefully amended two-foot deep hole was just full of tree
roots! Mme Isaac was a bareroot plant from a good company in Maine; I had
better luck with a potted rose from HQ that had a developed root ball. If I
were doing it again, I would put some sort of barrier around the outside of
the hole to prevent invasion, at least until the rose had had enough time to
get established.
Vivien
Zone 6, Mass.
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