can l transplant roses to form a new rose garden this time of year?
in melbourne. how to best prepare the bed with which products? should i prune them back heavily first? any other suggestions? thanks
Melbourne? So you are just heading into Spring, right? I don’t know what your temperatures are like right now, but if you give your roses extra TLC, they should come out just fine.
As with any woody perennial it is always best to wait until hibernation to transplant, but I transplant my roses throughout the growing season and I haven’t lost one yet.
Here are instructions to help you transplant successfully.
Transplanting a rose
1) wait until evening when temps are cooler.
2) cut the rose back to about 2 or 3 feet.
3) prepare the new home by digging a hole 2ftx2ft and water the hole. Fill the hole with water and let it drain at least twice.
4) save the top 2/3 of soil that you just dug up and set aside. Discard the bottom 1/3.
5) amend the soil you saved with peat, bone meal, and garden compost.
6) in the bottom of the hole add a layer of manure 2-3 inches thick and then layers some of the amended soil on top of the manure. Do NOT set the roots directly on the manure.
7) use a shovel to cut around the rose bush about 18inches from the trunk all the way around.
Moving around the rose bush again, reinsert the shovel and pull down on the handle. Doing this all the way around will loosen the soil and begin to separate any long roots. Keep doing this until the rose can be easily removed (Don’t worry too much if you break a root because roses are tougher than they look)
9) Remove the rose. At this point it is best to keep as much of the origional soil around the roots as possible since it is spring. If you move it in the fall you can shake the soil away and trim any damaged or dying roots.
10) set the rose in hole making sure the soil on the root ball is a little above the level of the new hole. You want the rose to be on a small mound.
11) fill in the hole half way with the ammended soil and water. Once the water has run through then finish filling in the hole with the soil and water throughly.
Now that you have transplanted your rose then make sure you give it water everyday for the next 2 weeks. Be sure you water it at the base and early in the morning because roses don’t like to get wet. After the two weeks then you can cut back the watering to once a week.
Good Luck
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