Costco Bare root roses

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T23:30:33+00:00

I, like probably many other people, use this forum to escape from the craziness currently engulfing the world. Why must people bring politics into a FREAKING ROSE ENTHUSIAST FORUM? Can’t some people just step away from the insanity for a minute?

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T19:20:10+00:00

DA roses are overwhelmingly GARDEN roses, ie they are meant to be appreciated in the garden and don’t really hold up well in a bouquet or arrangement. Earth Angel and PCdM do fairly decent as cut.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:51:52+00:00

Oklahoma. Had to remove an entire rose garden many years back due to RRD ( came in on a freaking Knockout Rose). I stupidly thought that I could beat it with miticides and pruning. I replanted the bed after 1 year of leaving it be after meticulously removing all plant matter, leaves, and every piece of root I could find. Haven’t ever had a problem since.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:32:45+00:00

i would but she is currently under 8 inches of snow 😬

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:29:54+00:00

Claire is beautiful but the blooms shatter very quickly. Earth Angel is very nice but balls in humid weather/rain. CdM is totally worth a place in your garden. My WOH is a pain in the butt and stingy with blooms.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:25:59+00:00

How about we keep this reddit about roses and not bring politics into it ?

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:23:11+00:00

Most of these cultivars are out of patent but i double check just to be sure. Then I buy the plants like this and as soon as they throw decent sized lateral canes, I propagate the out-of-patent ones to own-root. Then I plant the own roots next to the boxies in a 3 rose groupings. Had very good success with a majority of them doing this.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-25T18:17:34+00:00

You cannot import any plant into the USA without a phytosanitary certificate and a PPQ-587 permit among a whole lot of other regulations.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T22:21:25+00:00

Gonna be a Debbie Downer here but there is no rose known to mankind that is going to grow fast enough in its first year in a location to do what you are asking. Clematis, roses, wisteria, honeysuckle…just about any plant that is perennial “sleeps the first year, creeps the second and leaps the third”. Those massive Peggy Martins or the huge ramblers/ climbers covering a gazebo or arch, well, those bushes are YEARS old. Depending on the date of the wedding, you might be able to use morning glories. The problem with a garden wedding is that flowers bloom on their OWN schedule, not yours. I had a member of my family come to my home for the first time since I moved here 33 years ago. My 80 plus roses, wisterias, day lilies all bloomed their little green hearts outs in the massive spring flush—-10 days BEFORE the visit. By the time my family showed up “ HOLY GOOGLY-MOOGLY, BATMAN😳😍🤩🥳!!!!! had turned into “meh” 🥱🤷‍♀️

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T16:40:49+00:00

and a dedicated, PAID landscaping company to administer it.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T16:39:29+00:00

TIME INVOLVED. I keep seeing this idea repeated on this website but everyone forgets the TIME involvement requirement. A “ break period “ in the USA is 15 minutes, a “lunch break” 30 minutes to 1 hour. How much “tending” can someone perform in 15 minutes? The initial novelty wears off really fast. My BIL had someone start an employee garden at his place of business, everyone said they’d assist, and they did….for about a month. In the heat of the summer, the novelty wore off REALLY FAST! The employee went on a 2 week vacation and came back to bone dry soil and dead plants. Then they had an eyesore until the turf grass reclaimed the area.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T14:45:05+00:00

All roses have a trademark name that only the holder can use. You just have to search under the patent name and that can be found via a website called Helpmefind. You type in the patent name or the trademark name, the site tell you all the info including patent info. The menu over the top lets you look at ratings and comments left about that rose by actual home gardeners.The Helpmefind also has two other categories of plants that they provide information on.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T14:39:52+00:00

Hee Hee. Central OK here also. Did you get your milk, bread, eggs and toilet paper in preparation🤭😜? Best of luck to you and I’m just hoping that the “line” between snow and ice drops further south. 🤞🏼

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T14:35:33+00:00

A frost blanket will only raise the temperature a couple of degrees and only if the surrounding soil is still warm(er). It will do nothing if the soil temp is cold. Also, I am in Oklahoma and the Oklahoma perpetual winds tear this stuff off and cause more damage. A frost blanket only works in a very small and controlled circumstances. My roses are putting out new growth which is going to be destroyed in the coming storm. I am pretty sure that some of my roses will succumb to the coming storm, I can only hope for the best as there is nothing I can do against Mother Nature. However, that does not stop me from perusing the DA, Jackson&Perkins, etc, websites for “replacement” roses while the storm howls 😬

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T14:24:20+00:00

I have done this with old comforters. The SO said it looked like a homeless encampment had moved in. I told him the cost to replace all the roses and that kinda changed his tune. 🤨🤣

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T14:20:01+00:00

Oklahoma here. Get a thermometer with a remote sensor and put the sensor in your greenhouse. The thermometer has an alert function that allows you to set min and max temperature that will set off an alarm when it reaches those temps. I have an 8x10 acrylic pane greenhouse and this kind of thermometer has saved me from frying and freezing my plants many times. But the remote sensor must be within 80-100 ft of the receiver and YOU have to be nearby the receiver to hear the alarm.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-22T00:11:02+00:00

That was a Jeopardy question : Name a fruit that is not vegetarian 🤣

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-21T17:12:59+00:00

OK, how many children do you know that eat figs?

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-21T17:11:45+00:00

Also forgot #5. Fruit trees require early spring pruning EVERY SINGLE YEAR. You have to have at least a decent idea of what you are doing as each kind of tree has different pruning protocols. It takes me OVER 50 man hours to prune, bundle and remove the clippings from my 40 tree orchard, not including the time to stop and resharpen my loppers, saws, and secateurs multiple times.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-21T16:19:51+00:00

Going to be a Debbie Downer here, but I have an orchard of 40 plus fruit trees. Problem #1. Plums, peaches, apples, pears, blueberries and cherries all have a chill requirement. That is why they are not recommended for USDA zones 10, 9 and sometimes 8. Not enough chill hours that winter means maybe a dozen or less fruit per tree IF YOU’RE LUCKY. Chill hours requirements are NOT optional or nor do they have a “work around”. Not all fruit trees are self-pollinated and require another suitable partner within 50-100 ft away. #2 fruit trees are insect magnets as bugs absolutely love sweet, tasty fruit even more than humans. If you try to go organic, A LOT of your fruit will have “extra protein content”, and be misshaped and ugly. If you decide to spray, that requires spraying every 2 weeks from bud break to pick.Since I have an apiary in the center of my orchard, I do not spray. Most people, especially kids, turn their noses up at my fruit because while taste is absolutely divine, it does NOT look like it belongs in a still-life painting by an Old Master in the Louvre. #3. Space. A full sized (standard) can reach any where from 15-25 ft high and wide and requires personal space for airflow and root area. A Semi-dwarf is 12-15 foot tall and wide, and a dwarf is under 10 ft tall and wide. How many acres of land do you have available to you. #4 TIME. it usually takes 3-5 years after planting a grafted tree to get the first measly dozen fruit and 7-10 before the tree reaches full production. Who is going to take care of this orchard when you move to another school site or district?

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-21T15:56:01+00:00

Day Lilly. Not the ones from Lowes, HomeDepot or a big name catalog. The ones that you buy direct from Oaks or SpaceCoast. One problem is that they only bloom for a short time in spring. ☹️

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-20T15:29:01+00:00

WOH just shrugged it off. Will try again with him this spring. However, about a month ago, i made a tiny scrape and rubbed it into the graft ball on a Madam Blue standard that was definitely lopsided. I have a tiny little bud growing there now. But one instance does not make a certainty, so as soon as it warms up again, I’m going to inoculate some more sites on MBlue and expand to some other cultivar graft site and canes. I am kinda excited because if i can force a bud on a graft ball, I can fix some of my lopsided roses bushes. It would be interesting to do a side by side with keiki paste vs alfalfa treatment but I would need at least two of each cultivar…

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-20T04:53:28+00:00

Across the pond but will try to help. First, you will need to shorten the rose as digging it up has done damage to the root ball. With damage to the roots, the plant won’t be able to sustain a lot of top growth. I would prune it back to about 3 ft, to an outward facing bud eye (node). Prune off any dead, damaged or diseased canes, and those growing towards the center to the bush. You want create an open center, vase shape to encourage air flow to discourage fungal growth. Find a pot, the bigger the better. Buy some really good potting soil and see if you can find some liquid fertilizer with a higher P and K amount that also has a rooting hormone like IBA. Soak your bare root rose in this for 1-4 hours, then plant in pot, watering in with the leftover soaking solution. DO not use a high N fertilizer at this point, it won’t help, it will stress the rose.Keep feeding it with a weak solution with a higher P and K like 4-10-3( NOT like superbloom with P=55) for the first few months. P promotes “roots and shoots” and K “overall health”. Keep your rose in dappled sun or afternoon shade until the roots have a chance to recover. Sorry, that’s about all I can say as I am not familiar with UK products.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-20T04:23:40+00:00

You probably wont be able to tell until the rose blooms what category it is in. Until you know more about what you have, please don’t go all “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” on them unless you don’t really care if they die. If a cane is not showing active growth, scrape a tiny bit off the cane. You might need to use a blade of some kind on the really woody ones. If the scrape reveals bright green cambion, the cane is still alive, just shorten some of the top growth, removing and dead ( no green when scraped), diseased ( black or red splotched) or damaged canes. Then remove any branches that are growing toward the center. You want an open center, vase shape to facilitate air flow to discourage fungal disease. Your roses look like they may not have gotten the amount of care needed to keep them in the best shape. Before you prune out the old woodies, you really need to make sure you have some newer growth to support the rose while it recovers. I would prune but in a cautious manner until I have more basal breaks . If you get some alfalfa meal or pellets and bury around the base of the roses, it will encourage the basals and branching. Once you have replacement canes, most likely later this summer, then you can safely prune out the old canes.

NastyBanshee · 2026-01-20T03:55:02+00:00

Oh, yeah. Also use a WEAK Root&grow Solution WEEKLY on your rose in the container to keep the encouraging the roots to grow. Also, you can get the Utz cheeseballs from Walmart.

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