Pink rosebud

Lovely...

It's a wonder they don't exhaust themselves!

Yes - I think they'll need a good feed next spring!

Good thinking B.

I feed my roses and clems with blood, fish and bone - or some manure if I've got any ready. The only trouble is that Henry sniffs out the b, f & b, and is very attracted to it even though I 'tickle' it in.

Yes, that's what I use too and Molly goes crackers!

The first time he came across it was very strange - I had just opened a new box in the greenhouse, and he came along to see what I was up to (as usual). He backed off and barked furiously!

lol....how funny, I can just picture it! Molly does a lot of snorting!

LOL.

thats interesting, feeding a rose with blood, fish and bones....

how do you get this? an industrialized composition?

We can buy it in a box from a Garden Centre or a DIY store, Aleyna. It's widely available. It's a powder, and I scatter it round my roses and also Clematis - other shrubs as well. :-)

I cant use it anymore Spritz. I used to use it when planting new stuff. I found the foxes really liked it and would dig out the new plant very often destroying it in order to get to the powder. Its interesting your dog had such a reaction. I use chicken manure now, with compost and for roses a bit of manure. I suppose its just what you get used to. ....

Poppy we cannot use it either because of the foxes, we like chicken pellets, hate the smell though, tried something different last week for the new border, we bough a bag of farm manure, a bag of horse manure and two bags of composted bark, and OH did a Monty (mixed them all together) and then I spread them around all the new shrubs and then it rained, was I pleased, you bet!!

Henry's used to it now, and we don't get foxes, thank goodness. I do use chicken manure pellets in the back-fill when I plant things in spring and summer.

That sounds a good mix DD. Was it smelly? I will give it a go. I can easily get some horse manure - stables up the road. The manure improves the soil rather than feed the plant. Very Monty! Hope your plants do well for you both.

Poppy, that's what we do, as there are lots of horses round here, but you need to store it for a year to let it rot down. If you use it at once, it can 'burn' the plants' roots.