Your Marechal Niel was really the best I've seen. Very heartbreaking that you have to start over. I can't wait to see what you decide to replace it with. Do you think you will stick with yellow for that area, or try another color?

So sorry to hear about your MN. Yours is the archetype in my mind.

Is canker something a rose cannot survive?

I have to Google up on canker. I understand, why ? Sorry about your MN. Yeah, I wonder what are you replacing with ? Daisy, where is the canker at ?
Maybe you can take cuttings and try to root it and plant it elsewhere. I am really bad in cuttings.

jin

Daisy, i'm no expert, but that does not look like a sick rose to me! Where, indeed, is the canker? Can't you just prune it out?

Your garden photos are just heavenly. That's unfortunate about the canker. Is that Lady Emma Hamilton in the third photo...?

I prune out canker and the rose carries on, however, my zone/climate is very different from yours...

This is why our photos are so valuable—-your MN really jump-started my passion for these old tea-noisettes. Thank you so much for sharing him with us!! :-)

That's such a shame. I've never seen one so lovely.

Oh no! Daisy, this is heartbreaking. Your Marechal Niel has become an international rose celebrity. We all feel your loss. :(

I've loved and admired your Marechal Niel for so long, Daisy, and mourn his loss. The upside is that you'll have a chance to try something new and wondrous in his place.

So sorry to hear this Daisy. I have never seen a more gorgeous rose. I'm afraid I'd have to get another two plants of the same. Best wishes with what you decide.

I also thought Daisy's Monsieur Tillier was another international star. I can't believe they have had to go.

Unbelievably beautiful garden! Really sorry for you loss

It started as a raised frill of bark around the bottom of the canes and at the fork of the original canes. That has been there for over a year. This year the first flush of flowers started okay, but then I started to find die back all through the rose. As fast as I cut out the die back, more appeared. All the time I was cutting out the dead wood, more appeared. The blooms looked awful. I decided that I had enjoyed it for over 11 years and it didn't owe me anything.

I have dug out a deep and wide hole where the roots used to be and lined it with cardboard, after putting a few inches of manure in the bottom. I will fill this with soil from elsewhere in the garden and replant in the autumn.

I have a few ideas about what to replace it with, but that is a subject for another thread.

Daisy

Sorry Krista. Yes, that is LH. Daisy