Hi
A friend is developing a block and demolishing the old house. There are lots of really old rose trees that I can have. How can I successfully transplant a mature rose?
Thanks
Ed
Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jan 21, 2010 9:30 am Hi A friend is developing a block and demolishing the old house. There are lots of really old rose trees that I can have. How can I successfully transplant a mature rose? Thanks Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 2Jan 21, 2010 11:44 am When are they doing the demo? If you can wait till winter that would be ideal as then they are like the bare rooted ones you can buy 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 3Jan 21, 2010 12:06 pm lisanne When are they doing the demo? If you can wait till winter that would be ideal as then they are like the bare rooted ones you can buy Next week... Lots of houses get demolished with beautiful gardens going to waste... "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 4Jan 21, 2010 1:44 pm Why not? It's only the flowering that will be affected and that is why folks suggest doing things in winter when they look crap anyway. What you need to do is get your wifes horse, tie a rope between it and the rose and slap the horse on the bum. Rose removed Or sharpen a spade up with a file or better still a grinder and use that to dig them out. Wrap the roots up with news paper or something if you want. put a bag round them. If it were me, I 'd use the horse and throw them in the trailer as is, get them home and sort out from there. Cut them back if you want before or after, what ever works out easier. Same deal as in winter. Cut the roots back. Soak in seasol and replant in good soil in new home. Seasol every weekend or when ever you can be bothered and a bit of molasses too Lots of water. No fertilisers or anything in the soil. No poos, nothing, just good rich composty soil. They'll be fine, one of the toughest plants in any garden Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 5Jan 21, 2010 2:02 pm I think my parents would be suspicious if i rocked up at their place with a horse and started tying ropes around their roses... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 6Jan 21, 2010 2:57 pm Jodie80 I think my parents would be suspicious if i rocked up at their place with a horse and started tying ropes around their roses... na do it smart Jodie. rock up with a couple of bottles of something potent of the alcoholic variety for an evenings visit. Don't drink too much yourself. Pour your folks into bed and then go get your horse & trailer etc. and go for your life. if you plan it well it might be a good 24 hours before they are awake enough/sober enough to even notice and you'll be long gone. Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 7Jan 21, 2010 4:21 pm Fu Manchu Why not? It's only the flowering that will be affected and that is why folks suggest doing things in winter when they look crap anyway. What you need to do is get your wifes horse, tie a rope between it and the rose and slap the horse on the bum. Rose removed Or sharpen a spade up with a file or better still a grinder and use that to dig them out. Wrap the roots up with news paper or something if you want. put a bag round them. If it were me, I 'd use the horse and throw them in the trailer as is, get them home and sort out from there. Cut them back if you want before or after, what ever works out easier. Same deal as in winter. Cut the roots back. Soak in seasol and replant in good soil in new home. Seasol every weekend or when ever you can be bothered and a bit of molasses too Lots of water. No fertilisers or anything in the soil. No poos, nothing, just good rich composty soil. They'll be fine, one of the toughest plants in any garden - I don't think she would let me near her horse... if it throws a shoe we spend days looking in the paddock in case it stands on it and hurts itself... Thanks for the great advice... Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 8Jan 21, 2010 8:15 pm Not quite a horse, but my dad ripped out a dozen mature roses with a tractor and transplanted them no probs. Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 9Feb 04, 2010 10:46 pm The roses were HUGE... no horse, but a Jeep got 3 out of 4 (the 4th broke off at the root ) Thanks Fu... Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 10Feb 04, 2010 11:16 pm Ed, to shape 'em up do this. Look at the palm of your hand. Part the hairs on your palm and curl your fingers upward *Fu dodges punch* That is the shape you need a rose to be pruned into. Hollow out the centre and there you go Do it with your fruit trees too Re: Transplanting a very mature rose... How Fu? 11Feb 05, 2010 4:48 pm Fu Manchu Ed, to shape 'em up do this. Look at the palm of your hand. Part the hairs on your palm and curl your fingers upward *Fu dodges punch* That is the shape you need a rose to be pruned into. Hollow out the centre and there you go Do it with your fruit trees too I tried that, I really did, but when I got to pointing my fingers up, the way you said, I could only get the middle finger up. Is that what you meant...? Thanks Fu "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Hi - thanks for your reply. Yes I think 'Ill go for whitish with very speckly bits rather than pure white something like this. PS was actually 2008 I built the… 2 11682 |