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Originally Posted by Skydragon
You can't just replant in an existing bed, 9 times out of 10, they don't do well if indeed they survive. When roses have been growing in a certain position for a number of years, the soil in that spot can sufffer from rose soil sickness, it has lost many of the nutrients, minerals, trace elements etc.
Roses here seem to thrive with well rotted farmyard manure or of course Horse manure rather than Blood and Bone!
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I use the manure made from the feces of my son's dwarf rabbits and that works wonders with my roses (and it doesn't stink at all...). I love Austin's English Roses and Delbard's Painter series and am looking forward to replanting some of them and adding some new ones in my new garden at the Ammersee (lake of the Ammer in the south of Munich).
Id someone could tell me how to insert a picture hosted at Imageshack, I'd post a pic of a bloom of Delbard's Camille Pisarro rose (aka Rainbow Nation rose).