When my sister passed away two years ago my dear friend gave me a rose bush from our local nursery, Snowfire, a hybrid tea, and it just isn't going to make it this year. Only one cane is leafing out. I went to the nursery today and they don't have any to replace it with. Any suggestions on the best place to buy another one? It was such a beautiful rose.

BUMPING

others have had problems with this rose, too...

http://www.rose-roses.com/rosepages/hybridteas/Snowfire.html

but here's a site fer ya...

http://www.heirloomroses.com/cgi/browse.cgi?page=item&cat=49&item=1053

If you really want to keep this rose, you might try babying it with some of JEANNE'S alfalfa tea. I also had several one-cane roses and the tea helped new basal breaks to form, thus new canes. You could either do this with the rose in its present location, or you could carefully dig it out and pot it up for babying. You really want to test the ph of your soil for roses, in particular. They simply are not happy unless the ph is somewhere between 5.7 and 6.3 as I recall. Call it 5.5 to 6.5 for ease.

Thank you Toots and Momcat for the replies. I had seen that Heirloom link, Toots, after I posted. That negative remark sure doesn't give it a lot of promise does it? Last year I used the alfalfa tea, momcat, and it seemed to pull out of the blizzard damage we had had and it bloomed pretty good. We didn't have any blizzards this year and therefore I was shocked at how badly this bush is looking now. I will try to test the soil and see if that is a factor. I sure don't want to lose this one but it isn't looking very good.