I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
of the three strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?

Rhiannon

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"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message
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I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two of the three
strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?


Yes, do it again and if you get rid of the third one you wont have to put up
with mildew, rust, fungus, bug, and generally disease-prone plants that have
the ingratitude to scratch you when you try and care for them.

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Tumbleweed wrote:
:: "Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in
:: message
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::: I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two of the
::: three strong stems at ground level.
:::
::: Is there any hope?
:::
::
:: Yes, do it again and if you get rid of the third one you wont have
:: to put up with mildew, rust, fungus, bug, and generally
:: disease-prone plants that have the ingratitude to scratch you when
:: you try and care for them.
::

Not a fan of roses then? :-p
Me neither...I can't understand why people bother with them - they are
nothing but brambles for 360 days per year, for five days they have a flower
and then back to brambles again!!

I have two sorry looking specemins in tubs but I'm thinking of slinging
'em...they are just long strands coming off a thick woody stub, hardly any
leaves and I don't think they've produced more than two blooms each in five
years..maybe I should attack 'em with the shears?


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"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in
message
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I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
of the three strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?

Rhiannon


More driving lessons ? Sell the car and use public transport
or cycling ? Stone blocks in front of your plants to protect
them from stray cars ?

For the rose - if the remaining stem is strong, and if you
have not disturbed/damaged the roots, it will probably
survive. Eventually, you should get side-shoots from the
remaining stem, and by careful pruning you can probably get
a reasonably shaped rose plant in a few years.

Bevan

Rhiannon Macfie Miller writes:

I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two of the
three strong stems at ground level.

Tidy up any rough edges where it broke, and don't let the third stem
get too long through the growing season. Next year you'll probably not
be able to tell the difference.

Oh, and put a kerb in along the drive to stop you doing it again

Anthony

Hook the whole lot out, cover it all with concrete and paint it green.
There, you have the perfect maintenence free lawn :-))

In article ,
Rhiannon Macfie Miller writes
I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
of the three strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?

The remaining stem will be OK, and the other two may throw up new
shoots. If you can get at it, prune the break smooth, to stop disease.
Don't know if it helps, but it's what I would do.

And cut the broken stems into 6 inch pieces, making each bottom cut just
below a bud, and tick them all into a pot of soil. There is a remote
chance that one of them may root. It's a very remote chance, but you
never know.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , Phil L
writes
::

Not a fan of roses then? :-p
Me neither...I can't understand why people bother with them - they are
nothing but brambles for 360 days per year, for five days they have a flower
and then back to brambles again!!

I have two sorry looking specemins in tubs but I'm thinking of slinging
'em...they are just long strands coming off a thick woody stub, hardly any
leaves and I don't think they've produced more than two blooms each in five
years..maybe I should attack 'em with the shears?

Sling 'em. That's not at all what they're meant to be like ;-)

I'm not a fan of HTs and floribundas and similar artificial looking
things. But I have several ramblers in amongst other things. Most of the
year they are inconspicuous, then in the autumn they pay their way by
being covered in hips. And they make the boundary more hostile to would-
be intruders. Summer flowers are a bonus.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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Rhiannon Macfie Miller writes
I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
of the three strong stems at ground level.


If there are any roots left in the ground they will grow again, but if
you have broken all of the grafted stem off, you will only have wild
rose growth. It is worth waiting to see what emerges.

--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

Kay wrote:

I'm not a fan of HTs and floribundas and similar artificial looking
things. But I have several ramblers in amongst other things

I saw a nice idea at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in (New) York:
They have a football field* sized rose garden, and my favorite was a number
of rambling roses with Clematis climbing up through them. Flowers of one
sort or another all summer!

*American definition, with the non-round ball.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

Any hope of what?

That your driving will improve? I doubt it.

You may well have damaged the point where the hybrid was grafted and all
that will come up is the stock plant and not the fancy hybrid you paid all
that money for.


"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message
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I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two of the three
strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?

Rhiannon

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http://sciethics.blogspot.com/ -- the rights and wrongs of science.

What in the freak are "specemins"?

Some kind of powerful sedatives for rose fanatics?


"Phil L" wrote in message
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Tumbleweed wrote:
:: "Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in
:: message
:: ...
::: I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two of the
::: three strong stems at ground level.
:::
::: Is there any hope?
:::
::
:: Yes, do it again and if you get rid of the third one you wont have
:: to put up with mildew, rust, fungus, bug, and generally
:: disease-prone plants that have the ingratitude to scratch you when
:: you try and care for them.
::

Not a fan of roses then? :-p
Me neither...I can't understand why people bother with them - they are
nothing but brambles for 360 days per year, for five days they have a
flower
and then back to brambles again!!

I have two sorry looking specemins in tubs but I'm thinking of slinging
'em...they are just long strands coming off a thick woody stub, hardly any
leaves and I don't think they've produced more than two blooms each in
five
years..maybe I should attack 'em with the shears?


--

http://www.blueyonder256k.myby.co.uk/

"Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message
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: I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
: of the three strong stems at ground level.
:
: Is there any hope?
:
: Rhiannon
:
Maybe some if you have some more lessons lol

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Kay muttered:


And cut the broken stems into 6 inch pieces, making each bottom cut just
below a bud, and tick them all into a pot of soil. There is a remote
chance that one of them may root. It's a very remote chance, but you
never know.

I broke off a shoot of Glenfiddich last year and did the above and I've now
got a new rose... do I get a prize?

I was being very hesitant about chance of success because it's not the
right time of year for cuttings, and I wasn't sure whether there was any
chance of success if the cutting didn't have at least a bit of leaf.

When did you do yours? If it was this time of year, then that means
Rhiannon has a better chance of getting something to strike.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Kay muttered:

In article ,
Rhiannon Macfie Miller writes
I'm not really used to my driveway yet. I snapped off two
of the three strong stems at ground level.

Is there any hope?

The remaining stem will be OK, and the other two may throw up new
shoots. If you can get at it, prune the break smooth, to stop disease.
Don't know if it helps, but it's what I would do.

And cut the broken stems into 6 inch pieces, making each bottom cut just
below a bud, and tick them all into a pot of soil. There is a remote
chance that one of them may root. It's a very remote chance, but you
never know.

I broke off a shoot of Glenfiddich last year and did the above and I've now
got a new rose... do I get a prize?