Should be fine Nut, they're not really under way yet. Take a big rootball out it won't know it's been moved. You could put some compost down the new hole then trickle some rose feed in a circle around the top of it after planting.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'd forgotten the upside down rose. I wonder how it's getting on
The rose has been here for several years Hosta and the union (I read onion initially), is at the depth it was in the pot. Do you think I should put it in deeper? Can it go too deep?
I believe, others differ, that the union should be under the soil by about 2" / 5cm.
Not only does this prevent the rootstock warming up, and being damaged by hoeing , both of which can cause suckering, but also because the top stock is underground and will eventually form their own roots.
It also stablises the plant firmly into the ground so they're not all wobbly , as those on GW were.
The union ((I read onion initially) is where it was when I bought it in the pot several years ago. I like your resaoning on depth of union and will replant deeper if necessary.
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Should be fine Nut, they're not really under way yet. Take a big rootball out it won't know it's been moved. You could put some compost down the new hole then trickle some rose feed in a circle around the top of it after planting.
Thanks Lyn
It's going to better place. It's in brick rubble with a scattering of plastic and asbestos at the moment.
In the sticks near Peterborough
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I've got seeds to sow tomorrow and a new bit of grass to level and sow. I thought if I nipped out and did the rose now I'd be ahead of the game
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut, the sun is shining and the birds are singing - It's the perfect morning for moving a rose bush
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sun????????
Thick fog here
But the birds are still singing.
In the sticks near Peterborough
We had fog earlier, but it's gloriously sunny now - I'll send some your way
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
make sure you plant the "union" below ground, unlike those being pruned on GW the other night.
I'd forgotten the upside down rose. I wonder how it's getting on
The rose has been here for several years Hosta and the union (I read onion initially), is at the depth it was in the pot. Do you think I should put it in deeper? Can it go too deep?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I believe, others differ, that the union should be under the soil by about 2" / 5cm.
Not only does this prevent the rootstock warming up, and being damaged by hoeing , both of which can cause suckering, but also because the top stock is underground and will eventually form their own roots.
It also stablises the plant firmly into the ground so they're not all wobbly , as those on GW were.
I don't watch GW but can imagine.
The union ((I read onion initially) is where it was when I bought it in the pot several years ago. I like your resaoning on depth of union and will replant deeper if necessary.
Thanks Hosta
Sun coming out now.
Action
In the sticks near Peterborough