Why have all the leaves on my rose bush gone?
Question:its in a pot and no leaves what so ever ... there was when i planted it
Answers:
how long has it been in the same pot? roses want a lot of rich soil, and root room, and for that reason they don't tend to do well in pots long term. repot it in a much bigger pot, give it rich soil w/peat moss and lava sand, and lots of organic fertilizers (bone and blood meal, fish emulsion, bat guano, magnesium, iron, etc) and see if it doesn't recover. roses want 7 gal of water per week.
i pulled them off
don't know so is mine
Caterpillars are eating mine, you can use clean water with a small amount of detergent in to wash them off.
You do not say when you potted it, or what compost you used. Roses like a lot of fertiliser. Are you watering it enough and did you notice any black spots on the leave before they fell off. Spray for black spot and make sure you give it some rose food. It may pick up. Roses do best in open ground. Hope your plant picks up.
Have you pulled them off? They were either pulled off by a dormouse with a grudge, a fairy with fettish or a neighbour with a bout of leaf envy. OR they may have been dun-dun-dah!.. Eaten! Do you want my list of of possible eaters or can you guess what I would write from my list of pullers!
No, but seriously its probably a bug or a mold, is your rose in a dank spot or have you over watered it? If it has a mottledy effect on the flowers or any dark spots then its a disease possibly fungus or some such.
Have you seen any caterpillers? They are fast!
Whichever, rose problems are fairly easy to find a cure for in a garden centre. But for their general health try planting a garlic clove in the same ground, it makes em smell lovely and certain bugs dont like the sulpherous odour and chemicals that comes from it (they can smell it, you cant).
Infact, I would go so far as to say I have five different roses, a couple miniture and some climbers, they are now all outside but I did put one next to an old old microwave in a pot when I first got it, it was a lovely red miniture. After a few weeks it died all down one side and I realised that it was probably the microwaves ( this obviously prompted me to ditch the microwave!) I didnt think it would revive but I put it outside and watched it, it seemed to evolve! It is now no longer a miniture, it's hugh and the flowers are pale pink with a purpley mottle! I'm sure its a symptom of the microwave radiation but it looks pretty lovely anyway! And I have only ever lost one rose, again in a pot, and I simply forgot to water it over a very hot summer when we went away. They dont tend to like that!
If you get green fly or black fly or any kind of aphid spray on some water mixed with head and shoulders or if you want to be super organic introduce some money spiders or ladybirds to the plant directly.
Oh and I have tried tea tree oil in a water spray for funguses it works pretty well but you have to keep on top of it.
Hope this helps.
Ummm..Roses go dormant during the winter month - in case you don't know.
I have the same thing happening in my yard. A person I trust told me its a blight / virus he offered nothing for a cure.
Useless information brought to you by me!
empathy - sorry
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