So I have culled and culled and now it’s getting into autumn with it likely to be a very wet autumn/winter for us due to the El Nino. I have limited space to not have my roses sitting in water. I have got to the point that I don’t want to kill anymore of them as I have never seen them flower. Its hard to justify culling at this stage when I haven’t seen the final product. Anyone go through this problem?
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I make few-to-none once-blooming crosses, but I always seem to have a few “otherwise looking good” plants that don’t bloom the first year, and they get potted up with the keepers (if they have good roots beneath them), and I let Mother Nature’s penchant for attrition take its course.
Here on Vancouver Island, our winters are mild and usually VERY wet, so anything that drowns has done me a favour. Not that I deliberately let them sit in water, but it happens. If they cannot survive the mildest of winters, how tough could they be? That’s how I rationalize it anyhow.
Dusty.
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So give them a chance to live by leaving out in waterlogged pots. I think I will cull a few more but then I’m down to about 8
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Some of the best roses ever only bloom once a year.
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