Oh, mercy ... you
do not know what you are saying
I am a rose heretic and am constantly testing the "rules of growing good roses" and have found that the roses do just fine if I don't bother with all of the work they say needs to be done to grow good roses !
To me, the best teacher is the rose, so I do a lot of experimenting
I've managed to kill a lot of other plants, but I've never killed a rose and I really don't want to put in the time and effort to grow a rose that doesn't like my style of gardening.
Smiles,
Lyn