Roses are blooming wrong colors?

My Mom has been growing some roses for several years. Problem is that one rose bush is supposed to be a peach color and another is supposed to be a white one, but all of them are blooming red. Do I need to add something to the ground to make them bloom the right color? Thank you for your help.

Roses are blooming wrong colors?
you probaly planted red roses insted of the other colours.
Reply:they geneticaly reverted back to the original base color from wence they came.
Reply:Sounds like the desired cultivars have died, and what you're seeing is red flowers from the rootstock the desirable cultivars were grafted onto.





http://www.berkeleyhort.com/gardensugges...





Wouldn't be surprised if your flowers look like this:


http://www.ph-rose-gardens.com/00704.htm


http://www.rose-roses.com/rosepages/clim...
Reply:I don't think there is anything you can do to change the color. Chances are, you've got grafted rootstock, which means that the root stock has taken over and bloomed in the original color.


Roses that are labeled "own root stock" will always stay true to the original color - in your case, the peach or white, but grafted roses almost always revert to the original color of the rootstock. So I think you have grafted rootstock. :o(





I paid good money for a Blue Moon climbing rose a few years ago, that reverted to a red rose, and there's nothing I can do about it other than rip it out - and it's too pretty to do that to.


Your only option is too pull the roses out and start over ...





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