Roses Flowers

Roses Flowers

Roses with no buds or flowers?

Last year I had gorgeous strong stemmed roses. This year I have tons of green leaves and NOT ONE bud or flower? Why? And how do I keep beetles away!? they are terrible!
what is the RIGHT kind of fertilizer/cause I babied them with Blood meal and Miracle grow. I dont mean there are not many buds. There is NOT ONE bud. JUST ALL LEAVES..crazy

So fertilizing could be the problem, and every one has suggested it. I'll opt to ask a few more questions...

Do you know what kind of rose it is? Is it a modern rose (recently planted) or an old-fashioned variety? Is it a Hybrid Tea or Grandiflora or a Climber? I realize that you might not know the answer to these questions, but they could impact the why you've gotten no flowers. So take all of the answers with a grain of salt, because we could all be wrong.

That being said, if you have alot of canes and leaves and no flowers, it could be because the plant has aborted its graft. Most modern roses are grafted. You'll see a bulbus-knobby area near the soil line that all the branches (canes) grow out of. That is the graft. When you buy a rosebush, you're paying for the named variety, the area above the graft. The root stock (below the graft) is 'free', it's usually an old fashioned climber called "Dr. Huey". It's really hardy, and it passes this hardiness on to the whole plant. Sometimes the nice, named part of the rose dies, but the roots remain alive. They shoot up from the soil various stems. Dr. Huey doesn't always bloom on young wood, and even if it does, it does so only one time a year. The flower is a semi-double red, in clusters.

Check your rosebush around the base. If there's alot of growth coming right up from the ground... it definately is because the graft has been aborted. The nice part has probably died (not always the case, but usually). Dr. Huey is NEVER worth keeping.

Well I hope that this helps
Good luck-