Think my rose is on it's way out
Sue & Mutton
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My poor 5 year old rose has been riddled with black spot this year and is looking decidedly sorry for itself. The stem has now started to turn brown, although it's still trying to shoot at the top. Does black spot affect the stems too? Is it best to despatch it to the local municipal dump!
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Maybe you need to remove one or 2 of the stems (in winter) from the base to encourage new some shoots to come up in the spring to replace the older wood.
Do you know what sort of rose it is?
A photo of the whole plant and another of the bottom of your rose may help us give better advice.
Generally, roses are quite hard to kill
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
If you've had enough of the rose just give rid of it.. there's plenty more out there... I grow some as annuals would you believe, although I realise not many would do that..
If you like it enough to give it a go?
I have a little rose called Summertime, I let it get a bit unkempt and it is in a pot. I bit the bullet and hacked the whole thing off.
The stems looked like yours and some a bit yellow, old and sickly.
Pete8 is right, they are hard to kill
Some rose food and regular watering, it now has healthy new stems with new flowers on, and looks pretty good.
@Marlorena, is it possible you are looking at the upright on the trellis behind the center of picture stem, it looks like it because of the shape a bit.
lol...yes I can see now..oh goodness I must be going senile... I thought that's rather a large old cane ... not much wrong with the rest of it, but can't see the whole plant...
@yorkshirerose that is pretty, I can understand why it has a special meaning to you.
Yorkshirerose - how lovely, I can't think of a better way of keeping someone close to you even after they've gone than through their plants. Every year when I'm bringing in my late my Dad's dahlias I go back to being a child and helping him lift and store them - normally under my bed next to my jigsaw puzzles - and I still have my Grandad's rhubarb going - 9 house moves later and nearly 35 years since he died.
The rose has no sentimental value, although I'm one of those gardeners who just will not throw any plant away unless it's completely beyond it. It's up the side of a pergola and must be 12' high. If it stops raining later I think I'll hack it back, feed it as you suggest and cross my fingers.
Pruning at this time of year (esp with the recent warm weather) there's a risk that it'll start growing new shoots from the base that are then easily damaged by winter frosts
I usually trim them up this time of year but any significant pruning I do in Feb
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.