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Is your rose dying? I volition prove you how to salve a dying rose bush plant. It is easy and and so satisfying to save a rose from dying!

Do y'all have roses?  If you do y'all may one day need to save a dying rose bush-league.  It is skilful to know that reviving a dying rose or other plants is possible and not really difficult.

I love my roses and this yr I have had bug with voles.  They have been chewing the roots off and fifty-fifty into the rose canes.

This has nearly killed a few of my roses.  And so that is how this article was born.  I figured if I am having to revive roses that are dying then perchance some of you lot are likewise.

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This is the photo of my nearly dead rose bush-league.  It is withered and clearly dying.  This is i of my Olivia Rose Austin roses. One day information technology was leafy, full of buds, and thriving.  The next forenoon I find it like this!

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Before in the Spring, I had to dig upwards a rose and save it. At beginning, I wasn't sure what had happened but in the video, I share that rose that I saved and the photos in this post 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 just I accept had to move roses at the wrong fourth dimension of year and this method works for that too.

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

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Let's get started with your tools. You will need a shovel, potting soil, a pot big plenty for the rose (I used a  iii gallon size can), hand pruners and gloves.

Dig up the Rose Bush

Outset, we volition dig up the suffering rose bush. This is easier if the soil has been well hydrated. Water the surface area very well the day before tackling this.

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

digging up a dying rose to save, Flower Patch Farmhouse

Dig all the way effectually then pop the rose out of the ground.

As you can see here, mine had no roots left.

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The voles or gophers have eaten them clean off.  Your rose may non be struggling because of critters eating the roots off.  In your case, y'all tin can trim up the roots a flake with your pruners to fit into your pot.

I am seriously worried that this rose will non recover.  There is barely a couple of tiny pilus-like roots left so my efforts to save this dying rose may be fruitless.

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

Clip and pot Rose

Fill a v-gallon bucket or container large enough to identify the rose in and let information technology soak for a solar day to re-hydrate well.

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Trim off the rose canes downwards to 6 to eight inches long. Remove all leaves as well.

Partially fill your pot or tin can with a expert potting soil if yous don't have your own mix. Settle the rose roots (or nub in my instance) into the soil.  Finish filling pot until it reaches well-nigh the base of operations of where the canes abound out.

This is a grafted rose, non an own-root rose. I want to go along the graft visible to make sure I practise not get whatsoever canes sprouting below the graft.

I won't get into the specifics of grafted versus ain root correct now but typically I prefer own-root roses.  1 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 start the first 2 weeks or and then in the total shade then I move the potted rose under a tree where information technology gets light-dappled sun.  I continue the soil around the pot moist so there is plenty of humidity.  You could cover this with something to create a greenhouse effect if you adopt but I don't find it any more effective.

Keeping the soil effectually the potted rose and the soil in the pot moist does the trick.  Keep a close heart on the rose canes for some new growth.  That means information technology 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 information technology non just leafed out only it was blooming as well.

Candyland rose blooming. Flower Patch Farmhouse

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

Another Olivia Rose Austin in my garden was plant shriveling up and am doing the aforementioned with it. Seems the voles and gophers enjoy eating the Olivias for some reason.

 I accept put down some vole/mole repellent and it seems to be working.  You tin can press here to see what I am using.

I am going to requite the repellent a real long-term test. This Fall I am going to replant some lilies (wintertime food for voles and they decimated all of mine concluding winter) and run across if the repellent keeps the critters away.)  The results will be shared adjacent summer.

UPDATE: The gopher and vole repellent does work but yous have to continue it upwardly every few weeks which tin be backbreaking and expensive. So I have resorted to planting the plants that they like to chew on in pots placed into the footing. So far it is working.

And that my friends is how I save a dying rose. This is also how I move a rose at the height of summer.  Sometimes y'all accept to move a rose at the worst times and this method makes sure you lot do it and proceed your rose live.  You will lose blooms for several weeks but the move is successful even during the hottest months.

If critters eating your rose is not the trouble and you have eliminated pest infestation or illness then you lot can take it to a local extension and ordinarily, they tin can help place the trouble. Or even a very proficient local plant nursery tin help.

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