"Does the rose pay it's rent?" 🤯 Never though of it that way! I've always felt responsible for the state of those roses that aren't performing, I definitely have some freeloaders that are about to get evicted!
Thank you - from a garden in a medieval Italian hilltop town - for the useful tips. Mysterious creature, the ROSE. I have seen them thrive wonderfully, growing along miles of traffic islands to the Aberdeen airport Scotland, and do equally well in the blazing heat of southern Spain.
I have an 11 year old bush and it suprises me how it has survived the harsh winters here in Dallas Tx... i had a rose bush taller than my home and it smelled so beautiful never seen anything like it again..
Your like me,I had mine for 15 years here in New Jersey and never pruned or treated it,it's all wide and tall but it keeps growing red roses,im gonna start taking care of it,I just hope I don't kill it...
Our favorite rose, and definitely "pays its rent" and lives up to it's name--doubly delightful to the eyes and nose! Ours is decade+ old, and for the last year or more, hasn't produced new canes. The solitary cane is looking gray and "bark-y" though still prolific or producing new stems and blooms year round. But will it produce new canes? Is it just a matter of waiting or are there measures we need take before the old crane croaks to get it to produce new cranes? Thank you!
Thanks for this I haven't kept up pruning the last few years and our Double Delight is 20 years old. I want to cut out all the old woody stems this winter. Should I? Or just remove a 20 year old rose and replant?
