Need some flower help!?

Question by Moris: Need some flower help!?
I want to buy these for someone,

http://products.proflowers.com/pottedroses/PrettyinPinkRoseBasket-3606?viewpos=5&trackingpgroup=prp&ref=organicgglgeneric&catid=prp

Are these meant to be taken out and planted? Or can these live in the basket near a window or something? I asked customer service but all they did was give me a generic mini-rose care guide. eg, how much to water, how much sun to give. Nothing about if I can keep them in the basket or not.

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Answer by happypappy
i’ve seen mini-roses outside in flower beds and i’ve seen them as house plants. just give the care guide with the basket.

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Need help with young rose bush?

Question by Rose: Need help with young rose bush?
Last spring I planted a rose bush (tea rose I think) using a purchased root. Early in the spring it grew some thin stems that produced a few nice, healthy flowers and leaves, and also grew 2 thick stems. The thick stems sprouted about 20 buds each, so i was looking forward to a big, beautiful plant. But now I’m noticing that they are not so healthy as the earlier blooms–a couple have bloomed or are on the verge but the petals looks a little browned and sickly. I’m also noticing that there aren’t many leaves growing around them. What is happening and what can I do to help the plant? Should I prune these stems? Thanks in advance for your advice.

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Answer by Sion
You should have pruned it last fall after the leaves had fallen, It will set it back a little now if you prune it but it will survive.
Don’t be afraid to trim of the weak spindly branches, you would anyway if you were cutting flowers.
Pruning will produce a bushier plant. Any branches from below the ball will not bare flowers so trim them off. They are called suckers for a good reason.
The soil could be to acidic and you may need to put some lime around it to sweeten up the soil a bit (make it more alkaline). You can also use a fireplace spade of ashes, only use one spade full or the lye in the potash could burn the roots.
A good natural fertilizer such as goat, sheep or rabbit dung will do it good as well.
work it lightly into the ground around the rose for a good foot all around it. One large spade full of dung will do.
Make sure it gets plenty of water.
Roses are not a natural desert plant.
I hope this helps

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I need help with my memoir?

Question by Evan123: I need help with my memoir?
******Hi im in 8th grade and i need help with my memoir for english its about my grandma….every answer will get 10 points!!!!******
**HERES WHAT I HAVE**

Madeline Rose Mueller Macie

As I scurried into the bright, fluorescent kitchen I could smell the sweet aroma of strawberry pie lingering in the air. “She’s back!” With a smile and a big warm hug, I knew this visit was going to be great. Compassionate and caring, Madeline Rose Muller Macie has played a major role in my life in many more ways than just one.

Standing at about 5 feet high, my grandma is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. She is as sweet as a juicy red apple, caramelized and coated in sugar. Almost everything that comes out of her mouth is followed by laughter. “Look at those hoodlums walking around with their pants down to their knees, why don’t they just walk around in their underwear; it would be just as bad” She once said. My Grandmother has taught me many life lessons such as to turn the negative into positive.

Whenever my Grandmother comes to visit she always gives me a lesson in the art of cooking. When I was nine, she taught me how to make Spätzle, a German noodle food. “First mix flour and eggs together in a bowl then pour the mix into the spätzle maker…”As our lesson concluded we enjoyed a delicious German cuisine and A flour fight in the kitchen! The only bad part was cleaning up. I will never forget the day I was conquered by my grandmother with a bag of flour.

**IM STUCK**
****I STILL NEED 1 OR 2 MORE PARAGRAPHS****
**********ANY IDEAS?**********

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Answer by crazzzzzzzzzzy
Thats amazing so far, but i dont know your grandma and i cant help if i dont no her! im sorry!

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Rose Experts – I need your help – What is wrong with my roses?

Question by Q: Rose Experts – I need your help – What is wrong with my roses?
I planted this Julia Childs rose bush about 2 years ago… I live in Texas… I am very good about watering it (it has been dry this summer) and about using fungus spray on it, as well as feed fertilizer… yet look at these brown/yellow spots on my roses… what is that and how do I get rid of it? Is cutting it off good? Also, in the last photo… I took a picture of how my roses look once they have been on the vine for about 10 days.. I have heard mixed things – do you cut the dead buds off when the rose is dying and leaves are falling – is that good or bad to cut them off when they look like that? I am really a rookie at all this… I have read up on how to prune but still don’t even have a clue how to do that… any advice on how to make my rose bush look better would be greatly appreciated. Here is a link to the pictures I took (I don’t know how to post them on here) http://www.flickr.com/photos/oilag31/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oilag31/

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Answer by LVTHEPLUMBER
First, your rose is not in dire straights, so stop worrying. Second, yes, cut off the spent flowers; cut back the stem to the next five-leaf configuration. Always — ALWAYS — cut the stems at a slant. The brown and yellow spots are a type of mildew-fungus that roses commonly get — spray with a mixture of 9 parts pure water and one part whole milk. Or a commercial fungicide from a nursery. And, yes, remove the damaged leaves. Roses do not need to be treated with kid gloves, in fact, they do better when you don’t. I prune my 30+ plants down dramatically at least once a year so that they’ll produce more new growth… more flowers.

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Emergency. Can you please help me with my rose problem ?

Question by lidybeff: Emergency. Can you please help me with my rose problem ?
I have three very small rose bushes which have been repotted.

They were lightly pruned and put into bigger pots with fresh top quality potting mix, some water retaining crystals and some top quality time release rose fertilizer. I also gave them a water with some seasol seaweed solution at the rate recommended for repotting.

The roses seem very happy and have masses of healthy looking new growth. Because I am in the subtropics I have been giving them regular sprays with a good quality rose spray to keep black spot and aphids at bay.

It’s been raining for weeks. I went outside yesterday and was overcome with this terrible smell. It’s the potting mix. It’s rancid and overpowering. I ran lots of water though it hoping to flush it. But today it worse if anything.

My intention is to repot them (again) today, but I am wanting to give them the best possible chance. Therefore I am seeking advice on what may have caused the problem so that I don’t repeat the mistake.

More…..
The reason I repotted them is becasue I had lost one ( I believe to some kind of rot ), and another was going yellow.

Now they look fine.

These roses are the last remaining examples of “Grandma’s rose”.

Somewhere in 1915-20 my Grandmother struck the first cutting from flowers given to her by a forbidden love (she was from a very rich family and he was chinese), she took the rose from place to place throughout her life, usually as cutting. She died in 1994 at the age of 93. She has asked us to keep the rose going. It’s a Cecile Brunner tea rose.

Please please, help me to not kill these fragile little things ? What did I do wrong ? And / or what do you think has happened here ?

My immediate thought had been that possible the seasol sent it rancid, or the rose spray killed the good bugs in the soil or both. Of course I may be way off base.

Thanking you in advance.
Re seaweed solution . It’s called Seasol and every gardening book and program in Australia tells us how fantastic it is and that we should use it on everything except our breakfast !

I had no idea it cold rot or be a problem, I was trying to do the very best. I won’t use it again in potted plants after this.

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Answer by Bobby K
First of all rain will do that, secondly you should have at least 50% dirt mixed in with the potting soil and such, just use plain variety dirt, dug up from your back yard, blend it with the potting soil, and fertalizer, and lay off all the chemicals if possible. Why seaweed? Grandma says avoid this and fish heads, they rot.

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New to gardening and need rose help!?

Question by Jessica: New to gardening and need rose help!?
I’ve read a question answered already, but it was posted 3 years ago and it doesn’t list what time of year it was created… and I read different things everywhere!

But anyway, my parents and I moved into this house around 8 years ago, and have had these rose bushes… But neither of us have a green thumbs and know how to care for them and with how pretty the blossoms are every year, we didn’t want to risk killing the plants all together. However, I’ve been getting more and more free time now, and have decided to stop hesitating and attempt to tame them a bit.

I was curious if it would be safe for me to begin now and trim them down now when it’s nearly July? Or will I have to wait until first frost to trim them down?

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Answer by Jerome
tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables.

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I need help with my roses?

Question by ? I love my Puppy!!?: I need help with my roses?
I have 10-12 rose bushes to which I prune them whenever I can and then when it comes time I trim the quality blooms off and enter them in the Portland Rose Society’s Annual Rose Shows. Well the next one is about a week off and all my roses sit in the sun all day except for the 2 I have in my front yard that I don’t show at all and they grow slow enough but they always have spiders and other bugs/parasites on them and they are always in very bad condition. Well, I mainly need help with my roses in the backyard where the sun hits them all day and dries the soil out completely and I have watered them today and yesterday as for they needed it very badly and I noticed all my roses had been blooming and then the blooms were dieing faster then normal and realized it was from the sun hitting them all day and I need an effective way to keep the sunlight that hits them to a limit so I have some good conditioned roses for my next show. Anybody have some good, effective, and inexpensive ways to keep the sunlight they get to a limit? I would really like to enter this year.

Thank You!

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Answer by reynwater
Roses want full sun. Aerate (poke holes in the soil) and water them. They might like some Epsom salts (sprinkle around drip line and water in) and/or MiracleGro.

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Help with half dead roses?

Question by firey_cowgirl: Help with half dead roses?
I moved into the beautiful old house where the previous owner did NOTHING with her yard for 3 years. Literally. No mowing, no trimming, no pruning. The daffodils have grown wild since, and I love them, but the poor roses look terrible. They are the tea type so they have grown tall, but where they haven’t been trimmed and pruned for a few years, they are very sparse. I thought about cutting them down and seeing what will happen, but I don’t want to kill them. The same for the azaleas and rhododendrons. What can I do for them?
Also, there is no grass. Great dark soil, but no grass. I need help with the grass problem too.
no cape, i’m not the lady who did nothing with her yard for 3 years. i didn’t need your smart mouth remark. i just moved in in the late fall.
oh and money isn’t an issue. i just spent 200 on new rose bushes today
oh yes, we had the house fumigated because of fleas. i actually had to hire a maid service to help clean because of the amount of dust that was left from not cleaning.

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Answer by CAPE
Your best bet is to go to a nursery and find out what to do. everything you mentioned has different fertilizer needs and pruning.
you might be the lady that did nothing in her yard for 3 years if you ask people on yahoo a big serious question. you need to spend some money honey.

EDIT…if she did “nothing” in her garden for 3 years, she probably did “nothing” inside that old house for much longer. I hope you had a home inspection.

EDIT#2: If you had a flea problem, you might also want to check for termites. since it was an older property. best wishes, really.

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Tea Roses – Tips To Help You Make The Best Choice

When many people think of rose beauty, they think of tea roses. They usually come with fragrant large blooms that are simply elegant, vibrant in color, and with velvet petals. If you want to add tea roses to your rose garden, you’ll probably be overwhelmed with all the different varieties to choose from. In fact, there are actually hundreds of tea roses to choose from. You’ll find them in various colors, sizes, and shapes. So, here are a few tips that will help make your choice a bit simpler for you as you pick the perfect tea rose for your garden.

Tip #1 – Make Sure it Will Do Well in Your Climate – One of the most important things to keep in mind when picking out tea roses is to make sure the one you pick will do well in the climate that you live in. If you live in an area that is quite warm, make sure that your tea rose can stand the heat. Live in a humid area? Then make sure the tea rose can resist various fungal diseases. Also, make sure that your rose is hardy during the cold as well.

Tip #2 – Read the Labels – Usually you’ll find that the tea roses come with a description or label. Even if you look at it and love it, make sure that you read the label information on it. The last thing you want is a rose that won’t thrive well for you, so read it first, even if you love it right away.

Tip #3 – Do You Want Fragrance – Are you looking for a tea rose that has a nice fragrance or do they cause you to sneeze and have a runny nose? There are some tear roses that smell wonderful and others that barely smell at all. Decide whether or not you really want a rose that has fragrance and this will help you make your choice.

Tip #4 – Know the Growth Habits – Make sure that you are aware of the growth habits of the tea rose when making your choice as well. Does it spread out, climb, ramble, or does it do well as a ground cover. Think about where you want to plant it in your garden and in what direction you want it to grow. Also, know how high it will grown and how wide. You don’t want to plant a rose that ends up too big for the location you have for it.

Tip #5 – Is it Disease Resistant? – You’ll find that every tea rose can get disease, but there are some that are more disease resistant than other ones. If you don’t want to deal with diseases, make sure that you go with tea roses that are known as disease resistant

Tip #6 – Consider the Care – You’ll also need to think about the amount of care that you can give your tea roses as well. There are some tea roses that take more attention than others do in order to survive. If you don’t think you have plenty of time to give a certain tea rose the amount of attention that it will need, then consider going with one that only needs minimal attention from time to time.

Tip #7 – Are You Going to Produce Cut Flowers – It is important that you consider whether or not you want to use your tea roses to produce cut flowers. There are some types of tea roses that are better for cutting and displaying, but others can be quite fragile if they are cut.

Tip #8 – Go with Healthy Plants – If you go out to a nursery to pick out your tea roses, make sure you pick out ones that look healthy. Look for plants that have three canes that look strong. Also, avoid going with ones that have branches that are damages, roots that are brown, or foliage that is shriveled. Make sure the roots are b right white and that they have buds on the stems as well.

Tip #9 – Take Color into Consideration – You’ll also want to consider the different colors available as well. Think about how different colors will go with the rest of your rose garden. Think about how the tea rose in full bloom will go with the rest of the flowers and the area around it as well.

Tip #10 – Reputable Companies – When purchasing your tea roses, you should make sure that you only purchase them from reputable companies. You don’t want to try to save money by buying from cheap companies. The last thing you need is a sick plant, especially since disease can spread, so make sure you get it from a great company.

Help with roses which have not been cared for…?

Question by the_dragyness: Help with roses which have not been cared for…?
I recently moved to a new house with several rose bushes located around the house what have not been cared for. I have had great success in my previous home where I planted my own roses and had a very successful rose garden for several years. I understand pruning and fertilizing starting from the begining, but the roses at my new house have not been cared for for some time. They have some 4-5′ high branches with a single rose on the top with sparse leafing, and few other branches. The lowest leafing is around 2′ off the ground on sparse branching (with several dead). I’ve pruned where I can and trimmed the dead wood off, but they are still scraggly. Can I trim these back further and “start over”? I’d like to get healthy branching lower to the ground for a fuller look and more budding, but I’m not sure the best way to go about it and what time of year it should be done.

Please help!

PS – I do plan on extending the garden with more roses of my own, so I’d like these to be as healthy.

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Answer by Woody
It’s probably too late for this year,now Spring has suddenly sprung!Suggest pruning the old roses by the “See-saw” method i.e cut the branches alternately to 3-4 in. from soil level,using a saw if needed.Feed well with a granular rose food,apply a thick mulch of compost,manure,spent hops or mushroom compost while the soil is moist.
Worms etc; will drag this in and next Autumn you can plant new roses,note that the soil may suffer from “rose sickness”,the existing roses may have depleted the essential elements.
Don’t plant too many fresh roses at first,try one or two and see if they’re OK.
Good luck,I’ve rejuvenated 20 yr;old plants this way.

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