Corner replant

Hi Sarah...
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Hi Sarah your roses may be too close to the house and not receiving enough rain water.It can be very dry less than a foot away from a building.
What about the depth of soil,also do you feed with a rose fertilizer ?
PS like your little helper !

yes i like the little onlooker too.

I can see blue cornflowers, but I can't ID any others for certain - is that French Lavender there to the right of the rose in picture 2?

I agree with Aster on the problem with the roses. I'm not sure where you are in terms of seasons. If it's spring/summer with you, the roses should be growing strongly by now.

I agree with Aster to close to the house, they look very dry, also are they getting any sun?

Thanks everyone. Terratoonie, hopefully I've removed those lines now, thanks for that.
I meant to mention the 'little helper'! My son, Oliver, nearly 1 year old now. He loves that window, it's just the right height!
You may be right about the closeness to the house, I can see how that would make sense. Hmmm....I wonder if I should try them somewhere else or move them out a bit. Maybe I could set the husband the task of finding out a way to stop the water draining away or something. It's just turned summer (apparently) and all the other roses are doing really well, I just hope I can revive these ones. I feel a trip to the garden centre coming on to look for some good rose food once I've sorted out the location problem!
I thought that the blue ones were cornflowers, I will have to look them up and find out more, there is definitely some sort of lavendar. I'd love to know more info about the furry leaved flower ones though if anyone has any clues. Also, someone told me that geraniums planted next to roses help stop aphids? Anyone else agree with that?
Thanks everyone.

It almost looks to me like your roses dehydrated when you transplanted them. Are they in the direct sun? Have a look closely at the canes. If they are dehydrated the canes will look dry and almost wrinkled. If they did dry out then you may not be able to bring them back unless they are grown on their own roots and aren't grafted.
My advice would be to water them everyday for a few weeks. Shade them from the sun and see what happens. I wouldn't feed them when they are in this state. The fertilizer could finish them off. Give them a dose of transplanter if you have some. This will have a root stimulant in it. Don't worry too much about the condition of the canes. The main idea at this point is to get the roots growing and taking up moisture again. When you see new growth, trim the canes back to live wood....the tips may have died off. Once you definitely have new growth happening then give them some balanced fertilizer mixed a bit on the weak side.
Good luck with them and let us know how you go on.

Are you talking about Pelargoniums or hardy geraniums, ss? In either case, that theory is news to me! I know that some companion planting is helpful - for example, French Marigolds in the greenhouse DO deter whitefly. However, I have hardy geraniums growing near my roses - and they make no difference at all to aphids on the roses, sadly. :-((

I wonder whether they are suffering from shock. Whilst I agree with the advice about lots of water, I would be inclined to prune them right back, as your summer is just about over and just wait until next year, but keep watering. They can.t support leaves, and just need to survive. I would give them a slow release feed such as bone meal now, and then more food in Spring. I don't know about your climate, but as summer is ending, maybe you get spring too. Good luck. PS What a pity your husband did a concret pad, it would have been better to have a gravel standing area, with hardcore beneath. It would still have been permeable. Too late now I know.

Another PS I wouldn't have thought it is not a good idea to have companion planting yet, as the roses want all the moisture they can get, instead sharing it.

Thanks Mad. Actually, its just the beginning of summer here in New Zealand, spring has just finished and the summer months are December, January, February, so I wonder if I shouldn't prune them back just yet?
The husband hasn't quite concreted over yet, in fact he has actually put gravel down at the moment and so that is good news!
I was thinking of planting some sort of aphid distracting plant under my other roses that are doing very well, apart from the bugs, not the dying ones.
We have now made another patch for them elsewhere in the garden, away from the house so I think we are going to move them to somewhere else and give them lots of water and food when they arrive. It will be a shame if they don't survive. Thanks for the advice though. :-)