Marlorena
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As a fellow rose grower maybe you would advise on how you remove suckers? I heel out because I always have done but am open to other ways. 
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Daffydilly
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Daffydilly
Posts: 78
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...suckers should be a rare occurrence, I've had about 3 in 40 years... I suspect most 'suckers' that are removed from roses, are good shoots that are mistaken for suckers, judging by the number of threads about it during the summer..
I have found them to be so rare that it's hardly worth discussing but I do not grow some of the known worst offenders, and I always check the rose before I plant it..
...if you have lots of roses, please consider sharing photos on the roses thread, I'm sure we'd all love to see them from your garden.. thank you...
The graft union is below soil level and the suckers come up in all directions. I can't always pull them off as is advised so cut them. The plant is fed each year and top dressed.
I've been planting up my new rose borders in the last few weeks but he will have to stay in his pot. Can't be doing with suckers that are hard to get at. Any ideas or is he a pot plant forever?
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
My hubby who has poor eyesight enjoys yours roses, as do I, and I put your posts through my pc onto large tv screen so he can see them...so thanks for that, keep posting!
....oh thanks so much, I'm delighted to hear your husband enjoys my roses on his t.v. screen...gosh.. that's so nice, I'm pleased that somebody gets something out of it... I wouldn't have been aware otherwise... so, thank you.. I used to love Papa Meilland, one of those most scented roses which unfortunately has a weak neck... but one can put up with that..
@Obelixx
..no problem at all and you clearly have the patience of a saint... two things I would do there with your Geoff Hamilton.. I would remove it from pot in winter, bare root it completely, removing all compost, and cut out any roots that indicate where the suckers are coming from... they would be visible if you have partially removed suckers from them in the past... or if coming from just below the graft, the seeking out and removing any visible bud eyes...
Alternatively, and my favoured advice, would be to get rid of the rose... I haven't the time or patience to put up with problematic roses or plants of any sort... and if that occurs with such regularity then it wouldn't remain with me long...
..that's the best I can do...
I do agree with Marlorena but if you want to keep the rose there would be no harm in replanting it in the garden if you have room... plant deeper this time and do so in dormancy. Cut it back to a third and plant in soil (a little trick I use is to scrunch up newspaper and soak it bottom of hole first) then plant and cross fingers. You can uncross them when leaves appear next year! Alternatively you could replace it. I quite like a challenge so I would keep and `experiment'
My recent purchases for my new rose garden are not DA roses as I've decided that this whole 3 years to get going business and then maybe not liking the heat here is just too much faff. The new ones are Annapurna, Acapulco, Scentimental, Rosier de Cornuaille and Pascal Sevran. I've been given a Traviata and the others are all DAs, mostly planted last autumn and OK so far.
It'll be interesting to see how they all get on over the summer.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Works for me
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
...those are unusual roses that we cannot get here... I hope you will find the time to post pictures of your roses on the main thread, or elsewhere even, I would very much like to see them, and I expect some others would too... thank you..