Rose not growing or flowering

[Katy4321]

Planted a Compassion rose, grown in a pot, at the end of March. It had some new growth when it was planted, and these are now mature looking, but there has been no further growth for at least 6 weeks and no flowers. Planted with some blood, fish and bone and some stuff to stimulate root growth (can remember the name of it).

It had one branch looking a bit brown, so I removed that, but rest looks fine and leaves look ok. It gets sunlight from about noon, and is in clayish soil. Was a bit waterlogged ( but not for long at times). All the other plants in area are planted at similar time are growing well.

Is it just a matter of time or is there anything it can do to help it (I'm pretty new to gardening)?

Hopefully just time, while it grows its root system. Waterlogging isn’t good, but if it had done damage to the roots I’d expect the leaves to start wilting from lack of water (rotted roots means they can’t send water up to the plant).

Don’t feed it. Doesn’t need it if not actively growing. Should we move into summer, give it a good water (a bucket full) if the soil gets dry.

Thank you - that makes sense and I'll just try to be patient with it and hope for more summery weather!

How big is the plant? Did you prune it where you planted it?

It might be worth trimming back the stems to a strong bud and see if that triggers some growth.

Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't prune at all when I planted it. It was growing some new stems at the time, but they have just stopped growing and look like normal mature leaves, and not very big.

I'll give it a few more weeks of hopefully warm midsummer sun and then give that a try.

Another reason for a rose not thriving is if it's been planted where there's been one before, is that possible?

www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/replant-disease

Ah thanks this is a new flower bed with new topsoil

It’s the hardest thing to prune roses because they are almost always putting out new growth at the time and you have to cut it off! It seems so counter intuitive!

I would be tempted to cut back one stem to a bud, just as an experiment.

I would suspect it's establishing its root system now it's free to and all the energy is down there. I wouldn't give up on it yet!

Thank you. I hope so, this particular type of rose means a lot to me

In that case, if you do prune it, take the bit you’ve pruned, cut into 10-15cm lengths, trying to make each cut 5mm below a leaf. On each piece, remove all the leaves except the top one, reduce the top one to the size of a modern postage stamp. Put all pieces spread out into a pot of free draining compost, with just the top leaf and about 2cm of stem showing. Put the entire pot into a large clear plastic bag and fasten the top closed. Try and forget about it, except for checking for water now and again. With luck, one of them may take, and you’ll have a reserve plant.