{"id":2127,"date":"2006-06-27T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:20:45","slug":"rose-dieback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/rose-dieback\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Dieback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rose dieback is not a disease, I&#8217;ve read, but it sure acts like one. The canes begin turning brown and dying back. At first, it&#8217;s difficult to tell whether or not the rose just needs a little more water and extra loving care. Then, more and more canes die back and the rose is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Your supposed to be able to squelch the spread of the dieback by pruning the cane low where it is still green. If you look at the the place you cut, there should be no brown center. Howeever, with &#8216;Ducher&#8217; and major cane had died and I couldn&#8217;t cut it out without cutting the bush in half. No matter. The whole thing is dead now, to my regret. I always thought of &#8216;Ducher as my New Year&#8217;s rose as, here in Austin, it seemed to bloom best in the winter. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s because it preferred temperatures in the 50s, or it was just relieved to be out of the shade of the pecan. I loved its lemony scent, its very reddish new growth, and that it formed a neat, dense shrub.<\/p>\n<p>I lost &#8220;Caldwell Pink&#8221; to dieback last year about this same time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought I was good pruner, but the primary cause of rose dieback is poor pruning&#8211;pruning too far above a node. Given that &#8216;Ducher&#8217; was very dense and twiggy, she was difficult to prune. So I guess it&#8217;s my fault. Darn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/rose_dieback.jpg\" alt=\"photo: rose die back\" \/><br \/><i>My white China rose &#8216;Ducher&#8217; succumbs to rose dieback.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}