"Sunflower" wrote:
"Natty_Dread" wrote in message
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Hi all -- Can anyone tell me how to identify what type of roses I have?
I bought my house a few years ago and there are two rose bushes in the
back yard which never really bloomed until we removed an incredibly
overgrown mass of honeysuckle vines that had basically taken them over.
These two bushes were about 7 feet tall when we removed the
honeysuckle, and through pruning here and there we got them to bloom
several times during the
summer.
After deadheading, they developed more buds, but the bushes continued
to shoot way up -- I think they're almost 9 feet tall now. Are these
roses climbers since they're so tall? If so, I'd like to put in a
trellis and
let
them naturally grow into a vine, but I'm not sure how to start. If I
prune
them back in the spring, will they grow to be as tall as they are now
so I can train them to use a trellis? One of the bushes grows up from
one
thick
woody cane, maybe 2 inches in diameter, that branches into a Y at about
10 inches tall and several more canes grow from each side of the Y.
I'd like to prune it back, but I'm not sure how far since the bottom of
the bush is just the one woody cane and the bottoms of theY sections
are woody also. The other bush has a bunch of woody canes and a number
of smaller canes, some thinner than a pencil and some thicker (I think
some may be suckers). Any advice for me? I don't want to kill these
bushes because they're the only roses I have. Thanks in advance!

Go to the American Rose Society's webpage, www.ars.org/ and look up a
Consulting Rosarian in your area. They will come to your home free of
charge and give you a personalized consultation. They may can help to
rejevenate your overgrown rose, but it may be impossible to identify
which rose it is unless it is common.

There may be a waiting list..

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