We had a rose growing in a side garden. Its a hardy little thing. My husband took the bush machine to that area 4 years ago and the rose survived and grew back. This area is mostly a weed patch and we've been trying to figure out what to do with it for years - either pave it so husband can park his truck there or turn it back to lawn. Meantime if we keep the weeds mowed down it almost looks like a lawn - from a distance. In the past few years he's mowed the rose down a few times and it always grows back. I got after him to be more careful but the problem with his rose is that it trails over the sidewalk and grabs unsuspecting victims. Last year I decided that rose needs a chance and dug it out and planted it at the back of the shed. No easy feat. That rose had a root system like you wouldn't believe going under the sidewalk so I had to take a hatchet to it. Also had a baby rose plant growing nearby and I got that one and planted it nearby. Baby rose hasn't grown all that much but the big one is growing nicely up the shed, all kinds of new growth and greenery, but no buds and therefore I can't see that I'll have any roses on it this year. They've been getting rose food since April and regular doses of Miracle Grow, so they're getting fed every 2 weeks or sooner. Is this normal for a rose when its been transplanted not to produce flowers? Its a pale pink rose but I don't know what the name is. My other roses in the front yard are either flowering or have buds.
Is this a real rose, or a "wild" multiflora rose? which if it is you will not see a great deal of flowers from it, just LOTS of uncontrollable growth and very few flowers. If it is a cultivar of some kind, is it getting enough sun? at least 6 hours of direct sun a day? Not enough sun will reflect in a diminished amount, or none, of flowers, no matter how much fertilizer you give it. We aren't allowed to transplant multiflora roses here. they are considered an invasive plant and are on the "no, no", list.
Sorry I don't know what a wild multi flora rose is! I wouldn't imagine so. Original owners were avid gardeners but the house had been rented out for about 5 years before we bought and the gardens went wild and overgrown with weeds. There were a few roses growing here when we bought the house. Two in the front garden were saved when we culled it and this one that just has an amazing will to live. No other roses in the side garden survived. Its had quite a few pink roses blossom on it over the past few years. If we actually got some good weather the rose would be getting at least 6 hours of sun a day. We've had the coldest spring on record. Lots of rain and if its not raining its cloudy. That big yellow thing in the sky is rarely seen. Everything is about a month late. I bought a white rose and yellow rose last year for my front garden. My yellow rose just started blooming and an older red rose bush is blooming. The white rose's buds look like they're ready to flower and the last rose bush has buds that haven't flowered yet but that particular rose has flowers on it right through November so its a later variety. I couldn't tell you what variety that is though!
Hi whistler, the multiflora roses are the ones you see growing along fields and tree lines creating impenetrable patches if left alone. they have incrediblely 'catchy' thorns. they don't "let go" if you get snagged by a cane. They will grow just about anywhere. If you had a grafted rose, the rootstock may be the only thing growing. sometimes the grafted rose gets damaged or diseased and dies off,but the rootstock is very hardy and doesn't. It will pop a few buds and grow like mad. Hopefully this isn't what happened after you went to all that work to move it. Otherwise, it may just be the amount of sunshine we have been getting and the fact that it was moved and just needs some more time and sunshine to set a few buds for you. If it looks healthy I wouldn't worry too much.
