Pink Rose tree Only blooms in Winter/ identify
Hi all...... Here's a question I've yet to get an answer to.... Pink rose tree/ bush ONLY blooms in Winter months.. identify.
Will attach pics later if find any..backstory, South Wales UK, on moving home I inherited a well planted, established garden 20yrs ago. 2 rose trees, now only one left ,as a gardener before I could stop him copped one down thinking they were dead as not in summer bloom.
They have never bloomed any other time of year, only in very cold winter months, December & January, they grow big pink blooms, there's hardly been a year I've not had roses on Christmas day & new year, regardless of snow, rain, in fact the colder it is the more roses the tree produces.
In 20 yrs I can honestly say I've feed with bonemeal & manure & pruned no more than six times, in fact I neglected them.
Now with the one left, I recently took a good look and decided to lightly prune, and soon will be digging around to feed liquid horse manure & sprinkle bonemeal as previously done.
I noticed it has become fairly Woody lower down on some branches & appeared to be a bit lose in the ground so I've tied it up as are having strong winds this week.
The one that was mistakenly copped down to ground level never regrew.
I'm desperately hoping to identify this rose or gain some insight as to why it only blooms during a very cold spell, is it a certain variety, (as so far I've not been able to find out via the net or books)... Or is it,, it has a genetic kink!?!.. remember not once in 20yrs has it bloomed outside of winter months.
Thanks in advance.
Will attach pics later if find any..backstory, South Wales UK, on moving home I inherited a well planted, established garden 20yrs ago. 2 rose trees, now only one left ,as a gardener before I could stop him copped one down thinking they were dead as not in summer bloom.
They have never bloomed any other time of year, only in very cold winter months, December & January, they grow big pink blooms, there's hardly been a year I've not had roses on Christmas day & new year, regardless of snow, rain, in fact the colder it is the more roses the tree produces.
In 20 yrs I can honestly say I've feed with bonemeal & manure & pruned no more than six times, in fact I neglected them.
Now with the one left, I recently took a good look and decided to lightly prune, and soon will be digging around to feed liquid horse manure & sprinkle bonemeal as previously done.
I noticed it has become fairly Woody lower down on some branches & appeared to be a bit lose in the ground so I've tied it up as are having strong winds this week.
The one that was mistakenly copped down to ground level never regrew.
I'm desperately hoping to identify this rose or gain some insight as to why it only blooms during a very cold spell, is it a certain variety, (as so far I've not been able to find out via the net or books)... Or is it,, it has a genetic kink!?!.. remember not once in 20yrs has it bloomed outside of winter months.
Thanks in advance.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ma had a HT rose that almost always had buds at Christmas and she would pick them
a few days before Christmas and bring them indoors and they’d make a little posy for the dinner table on the big day ... we thought it was ‘Peace’ .... but it flowered in the summer too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have just the now taken photos,,, photos of when in bloom during December, January..I will have to search for as it was captured whilst taking people pics..
(And strangly today ,,.. is the first time I've seen a pink bud )
The brown stuff around it is coconut husk, I dumped it there for convince, using to mix with potting soil......
Any ideas what the green leafed plant growing up around the rose tree base is?.
PS I don't cut when in bloom, I did once cut a couple & they died quickly indoors & it spoiled the look of the tree.......
Crazy to think it's been sat there 20plus yrs doing it's own thing.
Lets hope the bud opens nicely and maybe @Marlorena will have a suggestion
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Keep it pruned and fed every spring and it should put on some healthy growth this year and in subsequent years and start producing blooms at the normal time. Don't let it waste energy making hips. dead head spen flowers.
There are guides to pruning roses on the RHS website - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=176 Scroll down and follow the appropriate links.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I know many roses have dark red "normal" hips. But some are black or vary in between, so shape, size and colour might help.
We sometimes get a rose or two in bloom late in the year. Notably one called Summertime in winter a few years back.
It was in a position of shelter which stayed relatively warm in winter and got sun.
Maybe you have a micro climate within your garden there which suits that particular rose and causes it to flower regularly.
Edit. When you mulch and feed as Obelixx has advised, do leave a little space immediately around the stems, as food/mulch might burn or damage any new stems coming up.
And sorry I missed the middle picture you already took of hips good angle sorry.
Otherwise... It's not unusual for roses to produce the odd bloom in winter...
When you are able to get a decent picture of the rose, in flower showing the whole bloom, I might be able to identify it for you... until then...