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Big roses, you must have had them a while?
Mine are babies bar the half dead left behind one which is slowly recovering.
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Planted them when we moved in 7yrs ago from cuttings from my folks. The smaller one took a long time to get going.
The big one has been a major feature so so long that last year and this year its been really sad to see it in this state. I can't help but wonder if the neighbour behind put something down that's affected it. Probably ant powder.
hugo7
This is the current state of play of my historically best rose. Compare and contrast with what used to be the poorer sibling.
Obvs not saying that this is down to ants, but equally I don't want to take the chance.
Luckily there are some shoots of hope, so will keep monitoring it. Then once I have more time in a few weeks, cut back all the dead wood. For now I want to leave it be in case any more shoots come, now it can photosynthesis again.