23-05-2003, 07:08 AM
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Question about pruning roses
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Cass wrote in
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Some roses come out much
later than others and some really need heat to bloom. In addition,
some classes of roses are know to resent pruning....
If it blooms on old wood only, you will need to wait until there is
some old wood.  It isn't only older, once blooming classes of roses
that do this -- some climbing sports of hybrid tea and floribundas are
known to bloom on old wood. Makes pruning much more scientific, i.e.
you only want to prune off old, unproductive wood.
This reminds me that I have a problem bloomer in my garden this year, the
Weeks shrub rose called Rockin' Robin.
another Tom Carruth striper in the wake of Scentimental, I grow this rose,
have had basically similar results. This rose's thing was stripes, that's
supposed to keep you happy, you're not supposed to worry about how big or how
many. Frau Dagmar Hartopp popped up in the middle of it, 8 or 10 feet from
mom, I've wondered what to do about it the last few years, but it's basically a
non-problem, Frau Dagmar fills in what Rockin' Robin lacks. Here it blooms
dependably but has never had enough canes to just knock someone down.
It was also not what I expected, being cherry-red, not that vivid brilliant
like Scentimental or Roller Coaster, Hurdy Gurdy, etc. Maybe you could
plant both of these real close to it, that would certainly beef it up. They're
both killer stripers.
Or perhaps you could just hack it back to delivery size each year, that might
even work to get it back 'on track'.
m
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But I'd love to get Rockin' Robin blooming again. It was quite nice.
Any ideas?
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