Tips for Planting a Bareroot Rose with Monty Don

In this video from the horticulturist Monty Don, host of Gardeners’ World (available on Britbox.com), you’ll learn how to plant a bareroot rose.
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Steps for planting:
First, Monty digs a deep hole but doesn’t add any compost to that hole. If you place a lot of nutrient-rich compost into the planting hole, the roots of the plant will not want to extend past that hole. This means you’ll essentially end up with a “pot-bound” plant. Instead, add compost after planting to the surface of the soil, which will eventually seep down into the native soil.
Next, Monty examines the bareroot rose and identifies where the rootstock, graft, and topstock are all located. This will determine exactly how deeply the rose will be planted.
Monty then applies a dusting of mycorrhizal fungi, which will colonize the rose roots and form a biological link between the roots and the soil. He places the rose in the planting hole and backfills around it with the native soil.
Finally, Monty cuts the rose back. Pruning immediately after planting helps stimulate vigorous new growth, which in turn stimulates more root growth and leads to a healthier plant. Give your newly planted rose a good drink, and be sure to monitor the weather conditions to be sure it stays evenly moist throughout the first full growing season.

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

Monty Don is such a treasure 😊😊😊

[@catherineengle4196]

Monty is just plain awesome! He is a walking encyclopedia of plant info. God bless

[@SpencerA.-jc4hr]

Give it a good drink

[@onemanfran]

Just a heads up for anyone watching this: when Monty says you have to plant them straight away, this isn't true. You probably should but if you've run out of time or perhaps weather doesn't permit, you can create a bank of soil, lay the rose at an angle across the bank and then cover the top of the roots with more soil until you're ready to plant. You'll want to soak the rose in a bucket of water for a few hours before you do this. I had to do this over a period of a couple of months as I didn't realise the previous owners of our house had buried all sorts of nasty construction waste throughout the garden and it took much longer than anticipated to prepare the ground. The roses are still flourishing. You need to be careful when removing the roses from the bank you have made as if it's later in the season or the weather is unseasonably mild they will start to grow fine roots which you want to avoid damaging.

[@thegonzalezs4953]

Well I’m here after watching a video from David Austin video on how to plant a bare root sore . Is way different than Monty’s method, 🤔

[@kathykerwin1294]

How can you give all that information and skip over the proper way to prune the rose after plantinf?