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Question about roses
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! |
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