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Is your rose dying? I volition testify you how to save a dying rose bush found. It is like shooting fish in a barrel and then satisfying to save a rose from dying!

Practice you have roses?  If you lot do y'all may one day demand to save a dying rose bush.  It is good to know that reviving a dying rose or other plants is possible and not really difficult.

I love my roses and this year I have had issues with voles.  They have been chewing the roots off and even into the rose canes.

This has nearly killed a few of my roses.  So that is how this article was born.  I figured if I am having to revive roses that are dying then peradventure some of you are too.

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This is the photo of my nearly dead rose bush-league.  It is withered and conspicuously dying.  This is one of my Olivia Rose Austin roses. Ane day it was leafy, full of buds, and thriving.  The next morning I find it like this!

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Before in the Spring, I had to dig up a rose and salvage it. At first, I wasn't sure what had happened only in the video, I share that rose that I saved and the photos in this mail service are of this Olivia Rose.

I really practice know how to abound roses, I don't kill them usually. This is the first time I have dealt with this but I accept had to move roses at the wrong time of year and this method works for that too.

This works for roses that may exist declining for various reasons. If you can't tell from looking at the rose then it is time for more dramatic measures.

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Let'south go started with your tools. You will need a shovel, potting soil, a pot large enough for the rose (I used a  iii gallon size tin can), manus pruners and gloves.

Dig upwards the Rose Bush

Kickoff, we will dig up the suffering rose bush. This is easier if the soil has been well hydrated. Water the surface area very well the twenty-four hours earlier tackling this.

Place your shovel far enough dorsum you can preserve as many roots as possible.

digging up a dying rose to save, Flower Patch Farmhouse

Dig all the way around then pop the rose out of the footing.

As y'all can meet here, mine had no roots left.

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The voles or gophers have eaten them clean off.  Your rose may not be struggling because of critters eating the roots off.  In your case, you tin can trim up the roots a fleck with your pruners to fit into your pot.

I am seriously worried that this rose will not recover.  There is barely a couple of tiny hair-like roots left so my efforts to relieve this dying rose may be fruitless.

Olivia Rose Austin rose cane eaten to a nub, flowerpatchfarmhouse.com

Prune and pot Rose

Fill a 5-gallon saucepan or container large enough to place the rose in and allow it soak for a day to re-hydrate well.

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Trim off the rose canes downward to 6 to 8 inches long. Remove all leaves as well.

Partially fill your pot or can with a good potting soil if you don't have your own mix. Settle the rose roots (or nub in my case) into the soil.  End filling pot until it reaches near the base of where the canes grow out.

This is a grafted rose, not an own-root rose. I want to go along the graft visible to make sure I exercise not become whatever canes sprouting below the graft.

I won't get into the specifics of grafted versus own root right at present but typically I prefer ain-root roses.  One day I will write an entire mail of why.

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Where to place your potted rose for recovery.

Put the rose in a spot that gets mostly shade.  I offset the first two weeks or then in the total shade then I move the potted rose under a tree where it gets light-dappled sun.  I keep the soil around the pot moist then there is plenty of humidity.  You could cover this with something to create a greenhouse event if y'all adopt but I don't find it any more effective.

Keeping the soil around the potted rose and the soil in the pot moist does the trick.  Keep a shut eye on the rose canes for some new growth.  That means it is probably growing new roots.  Keep the rose in the pot until you have lots of new growth or even roses blooming.

Here is the Candyland rose I dug up and potted in May.  In a couple of months it not only leafed out merely information technology was blooming too.

Candyland rose blooming. Flower Patch Farmhouse

The Olivia Rose Austin rose has new shoots on it and I am hoping that means it is growing new roots.  I have a couple more months of squeamish weather and I volition know by the start frost if it has been salvaged.

Some other Olivia Rose Austin in my garden was found shriveling up and am doing the same with it. Seems the voles and gophers savour eating the Olivias for some reason.

 I have put down some vole/mole repellent and information technology seems to be working.  Yous tin printing here to see what I am using.

I am going to give the repellent a real long-term test. This Fall I am going to replant some lilies (winter food for voles and they decimated all of mine last winter) and see if the repellent keeps the critters abroad.)  The results will be shared next summer.

UPDATE: The gopher and vole repellent does work merely you lot have to keep it upward every few weeks which can exist arduous and expensive. So I have resorted to planting the plants that they like to chew on in pots placed into the basis. So far information technology is working.

And that my friends is how I relieve a dying rose. This is too how I move a rose at the height of summer.  Sometimes y'all have to motion a rose at the worst times and this method makes sure y'all practise it and keep your rose alive.  Yous will lose blooms for several weeks but the motion is successful even during the hottest months.

If critters eating your rose is not the problem and you lot accept eliminated pest infestation or disease then you can have it to a local extension and usually, they can help place the problem. Or even a very good local nursery can help.

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