Eyebright Wrote:
denise Wrote:
Hi there,
I was wondering
Denise (a keen but novice gardener)

i'd stick the new roses in a bucket of water for 12 hours or so the
plant em straight out....the older one i'd cut out all the dead an
reduce the living by about two thirds....one or two living i'd tak
right down as low as possible to ground level in order to stimulate ne
growth this coming season. tie in the new growth and the following yea
reduce by about a third...next year some of those untouched take dow
to ground level...keep on doing this every year unless aiming for
permanant framework.

....is one way of doing it...does nt really matter what the regime i
so long as its consistant...its possible ' climbing rose' qualit
degenerates on wood allowed to become years and years old .

oh and its said don t hard prune very young climbers as this can lea
to reversion back to bush rose.

its also said ' rambling ' roses can be left untouched once a few youn
canes have been encouraged...this is done by cutting down to the groun
all old wood once a new cane shows itself after planting....'ramblers
sadly mainly flower just once in the season having much greate
affinity with wild roses.

with all roses the flowers should nt be encouraged at the expense o
the natural shape of the bush...its a balance...loosing some flowerin
wood each year but maintaining vigourous growth throughout.

all this is only my opinion by the way i better shut up

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Eyebright

Hi Eyebright
you have some good advice here
thank you for posting


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