My poorly rose

2’ diameter 🙄

Take it out the pot and firstly examine for vine weavils, chubby fat white grubs with a brown head. If you have those than you will need to use vine weavil killer in all your pots and boxes

Get new rose compost and micorrhizal fungi,. Trim roots to half. Cut top down to half. Re-pot only up to and not covering the scion, join between rootstock and rose (the nobbly part at the base. Put pot in a shady place on risers and water so that soil is only moist

If in doubt about the rose being alive, use fingernail and scrape a bit of bark away low down. If there is any green then rose is still alive

I agree with the posts recommending planting in the ground but do the above first.

BlueBalou

Callistemon I put mine in the garden border and 10 years on it’s about 2’ circumference and still blooming prolifically.

Thanks BlueBalou, I'll find a corner for it in the rose bed.
Perhaps a large corner!

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Thanks everyone, the rose was given to me by my GS when my husband died 4+ yrs ago hence the name. Well I’ve fed it watered and put fresh soil in but it’s just the same no improvement. I scratched the stem and it’s very green underneath next I think I’ll empty out the pot and completely change the soil. I may just have to source another one to replace it.

tanith have you tried the micorrhizal fungi? You can get it in garden centres in small pouches, it's not expensive and really does work wonders. One of my roses was looking absolutely 'dead' and I used this, within weeks it was doing really well. As you said you'd try completely changing the soil that would be a good time to use it.

A bit of an update still no growth on the larger stems but it seems to be shooting from the bottom. May be hope for it yet.