![]() Since 2012 I used Acid Lilly Miller NPK 10-5-4 since I have heavy clay, but recently it's re-formulated to Ultragreen for acid plants NPK 10-8-6, with 7% calcium, 0.8% magnesium, 8% sulfur and 2% iron, with 0.05 each of copper, manganese, and zinc. For that reason I use chemical nitrogen in spring. In our cold zone 5, organics like blood meal and alfalfa meal are slow to work in cold spring, and we don't get warm temp. they dug up the dirt just to crawl under the fence. back in 1996 I put over a foot fence around my rose garden, and bunnies crawled below the fence. Raised bed doesn't help, I saw rabbits jumping on my 1 foot-tall raised bed. This year husband got a truckload of free patio bricks from a friend, so I'll stack up those bricks to over 1 foot as border so rabbits can't eat young own-roots. Last year rabbits ate Wise Portia (band from High Country Roses), Pretty Lady rose (gallon from Roses Unlimmited) down to the crown, so they didn't survive winter. ![]() If canes are not big enough, then I put plastic pots (bottom cut off) around the own-roots so rabbits don't eat them. ![]() I plant all the 12 bands and 8 gallons own-roots INTO MY heavy clay in late October. I should had listened to HMF's rating that Felicia has BS issue and does best in sunny & dry climate. The wimpiest rose I bought this year is Felicia, died during our 2 weeks of heavy rain early July. CrazyaboutRoses: What are the kordes roses and tantau rose Ascot you bought from Longago roses this May? Which ones are the most vigorous? Thank you.
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