Raising a Rose from the dead

[MotherOfDragonflies]

Well from the "almost dead" certainly "not very happy". My general method on plants from the shelf of doom is a good trim and feed and then lots of gentle nurture. With these I'm not so sure. Am I best to chop right back and let them recover or should I try to save what is there? I have ten, only two have labels on so I don't even really know what they are..

I can post photos if that helps.

A photo might help. Is it a minature or a standard? Wilty or actually starting to die back? How are the roots?

Re-pot or plant out in a good spot.

Example

Repot it with new compost. Check the roots. Water and rose feed. It’s still got green bits so that’s good in my book!

I would re pot and feed,.see what happens, they look very sorry for themselves, probably been stuck on shelf in shop with inadequate lighting and watering. Lots of TLC and they are bound to pick up.

That looks more wilty than anything. Agree to repot or plant out. With some rose food and/or banana peel. Clear up/cut away the actually dead leaves and stems around the bottom. I think it will recover!

They were £2 each (one particularly sad looking specimen was £1) so I'm hopeful I can save them. I have a lot of areas to plant up (although I'll have no idea on colour, type, best location etc so it'll be pot luck)

I wouldn't cut back where its green and growing. Let it recover well - it will be a bit lopsided but you can prune it back and start out well after this year's growing season is done.

They're nowhere near dead.

Feed, water, space for roots to spread out

This is the £1 guy

Pot on in new soil, check for vine weevil grubs too, good feed, put somewhere shady but not dark to recover and plant out when they've grown a good root system that is filling the pot (but not root bound). Scatter some calendula or nigella seeds where you were going to put them to fill the gap till they are a bit recovered.

Ooh, £1 guy looks rough but there's still hope!

Rather than plant food, give them liquid seaweed as a pick-me-up.

Fresh compost, a good water, keep in semi shade and a half strength feed should help.
I love rescuing plants, I hate plant cruelty!
Roses are pretty tough.