Sad roses

[prettyprinceofpartiez]

My lovely blooming early summer garden has really suffered with the hot weather :(

I have a brown potted conifer tree that I assume is past it, a potted patio rose that has not responded to any watering or feeding but has steadily become more and more brown, and a live red rose planted in a border that has not thrived after planting a month or so ago and the existing blooms falling off.

Any advice for how I can get things looking better and healthier?

My patio rose has died after many years of sterling service. It never really got going and died quite early in the year. I left it in the hope that it might recover but it never did.
Luckily I have some of its babies, which are OK.

I, too, have a (new-ish) red rose. in a pot. The bloom seems too heavy for the stems.

There’s nothing wrong with the rose in the border, it looks in great condition! It’ll spend the rest of this year getting a good root system growing,don’t expect it to “take off” till next year. The flowers look like rain damage.

You’re right about the conifer

Have you fed the rose ? Have you changed the soil since you potted it ?

Your conifer looks dead, but I don’t think the other two are. The potted rose seems to have some root exposed. I would top up the soil level and feed it. Then in winter I would replace more of the soil, and give it a good prune. The rose in the border look healthy - what type is it? If once flowering then it’s probably already done it’s thing, if repeat it might flower again in September - looks good though.

I’d repot the rose, replacing the compost and at the same time look for vine weevils eating the roots.

I repotted it about 3 weeks ago with new compost. I thought the same about the root but it came in it's plastic pot like that! I'll cover it up though.

Fed it but not changed the soil as only got it a month or so ago, but will top it up!

That's good to hear! I've had a closer look at the conifer and the bottom is still green, and the stem inside looks healthy! I'm thinking it might be salvageable, but how...? I'm going to water the heck out of it and add some mulch

The soil in the potted rose looks too dry, so stand the whole thing in a large container and soak it for 24 hours to let the soil properly hydrate again. Then cut the dead leaves and flowers off, and let it recover in a sheltered spot in partial shade. Don't feed it for a couple of weeks, there's no point, as it needs to re-grow some fine roots first.

The conifer has kicked the bucket.

I'll do all that for the rose, thank you 👍🏼

I've had a closer look at the conifer and it has several bright green branches at the bottom and the trunk when scraped with a fingernail is healthy green underneath - is it salvageable?

the compost in the pots looks very dry.

give them a good soak.

also roses are hungry. in pots they need a rose & shrub feed every couple of months.