Why has only one rose grown? Am I doing something wrong?

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Good afternoon, any help much appreciated. Bought my rose plant from a local plantery, was advised to use top soil alongside compost when potting. It’s watered regularly but has only grown one rose. I can see cut stems where more should have grown but nothing.. I’m very new to any kind of gardening so quite clueless! Do I need to cut the stems again? Or is the soil no good? It’s a beautiful rose and I’d love for it to have more than one :) thanks so much for any help

When that flower fades, cut the stem back down to just above a leaf lower down the stem, and wait. This is called deadheading. It will grow new shoots from there. The brown stems in the pics are dead, so remove those.

Thank you that’s very helpful @BeNiceWhenItsFinisheddo I just cut a bit below the brown stems and then they will be grow? Or do you mean the whole stem of the brown tops are dead? Sorry, clueless newbie as I said 😂 so like am I cutting a couple of inches below the brown stems tops, or removing the stems completely?

Did you add rose food and manure to your compost? Roses need good nutrition.
It's a bit hard to tell scale from the photos but I'd suggest your pot is far too small to sustain the rose. On David Austin's website they advise using a pot that's at least 18 inches in diameter and depth. I've seen roses growing successfully in half barrels but not in a pot that small unless it's a miniature rose.

That pot is much too tiny for a rose and topsoil is too lacking in nutrients. Get a much bigger pot, and fill it with rose and shrub compost. Feed the rose with rose food every month during the Summer. You will probably get more roses this season but next year the whole plant will come back bigger and better, especially if you prune it carefully. Look at Dave the plantsman’s videos on Instagram, or a reliable pruning guide on YouTube.

It’s not planted deep enough. The graft point (where the stems are coming out) should be about an inch below the soil .

Thank you for guidance 👍 I’ll try and get a bigger pot and manure! As said in my earlier comment, should I trim the dead stems?

RHS recommend a pot 45cm by 45cm minimum for a rose so look for something with that sort of volume. It’s easy to over dose on manure so you may find it easier to use a rose food from the garden centre. That’s what I do and I grow a lot of roses. What is the name of the rose you’ve bought? The flowering stem is quite long and I was wondering how big it’s going to be. Obviously the bigger the rose the bigger the pot you will need.

Lots of sensible advice. I grow some roses in pots, not topsoil, but specific plants compost. Agree, bigger deeper pot, make sure you water well, deadhead as suggested, but next time, you need to get a rose with multiple stems.

Remove the brown stem all the way back until it joins a bit that isn't dead.

Thank you everyone :) @Nannyfannybannyit does have multiple stems, but the other stems haven’t grown (when I bought it all the stems were roughly the same length, and then only one got longer and produced a bud)

Just wanted to return to thank you all for your advice. I put in a bigger pot and fed with rose food and it’s been the gift that keeps on giving :) I’ve gotten a lot of joy from it this summer, wonderful smell and repeated beautiful blooms! So thanks again all 👍

@narniabusinessmissed that you’d asked what rose it was - whiskey Mac