chelle said:Okay. It's hard to see without blooms on it - it's a jungle in there right now....but Alchymist is growing alongside the front post. One cane is trying to get into the tree there on the left, the rest are sort of to the right of the post. The long cane behind the second post is Agatha. I haven't had a single bloom on that one yet, at least not that I can recall.
Is it a grafted rose? I have a number of non-climbers that were grafted onto Dr. Huey I think and have been sending out these massively long canes.. and then never bloom. I have one that hasn't bloomed once in 3 years (gonna be shovel-pruned next spring!). I found a lot of my Stainless Steels have done that :(. That, and 2 Lagerfelds both did the same thing. Bleh. One of my Stainless Steel's got to be about 8' tall just on it's own and never bloomed this year. One of my Charisma's is also about 6' tall (not quite as tall as me, but pretty close) and has never bloomed. Gonna go the way of the dodo bird next spring & put something that WILL bloom in it's place.
erk, EDIT: grafted rather than grated. I suppose I could grate them but I doubt rose canes are as tasty as, for instance, freshly grated chocolate sprinkled on a warm cup of cocoa...
