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Advise needed climbing rose
We have had this climbing rose, called : Rosa Hybrid "Climbing Blaze" for a
number of years. As in previous years it grows very well early in the season, and flowers in abundance. Again this year it has a tremendous "crop" so to speak that are about to show its blooms, a beautiful crimson red. Our trouble is that despite the promise on the label that this climber should bloom from spring to frost, it always only shows one crop of blooms during June/July, and then stops flowering. What should we do to promote blooms throughout the summer. Should it be pruned back in a certain way ? Right now we leave the canes alone, and only cut back the dead ones. Also, we train this climber sideways along our fence, in order to guide new loots upwards. We live in S.Ontario, zone 5, and the climber is located in a sunny location of our patio. Much obliged ! Ben. |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:56:06 -0400, "Ben Tuinman"
wrote: We have had this climbing rose, called : Rosa Hybrid "Climbing Blaze" for a number of years. As in previous years it grows very well early in the season, and flowers in abundance. Again this year it has a tremendous "crop" so to speak that are about to show its blooms, a beautiful crimson red. Our trouble is that despite the promise on the label that this climber should bloom from spring to frost, it always only shows one crop of blooms during June/July, and then stops flowering. What should we do to promote blooms throughout the summer. Should it be pruned back in a certain way ? Right now we leave the canes alone, and only cut back the dead ones. Also, we train this climber sideways along our fence, in order to guide new loots upwards. We live in S.Ontario, zone 5, and the climber is located in a sunny location of our patio. Much obliged ! Ben. I used to have two on my sunny front patio when I lived in zone 5 (Buffalo, hi former neighbor!). I used to train them along the patio and they responded vigorously with new upward shoots. I only pruned the canes that arched out over the mailbox, threatening to put someone's eye out, since it produces new shoots from old wood. They had little ebbs and flows of blooms, but pretty much bloomed continuously from spring to frost. I do think, though, that Blaze was originally one of those once-blooming varieties and that the newer improved versions were continuous. It sounds like you have the older variety, mislabeled, but maybe someone here will offer something more helpful. You should have just staked out my old house and you would have scored two gorgeous specimens after the woman who bought our house (loved all the roses!) ripped them out and threw them to the curb. She didn't know how to prune them. Cripes. KC |
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Have had a "Blaze" in Pickering for about 10 years now and some years I can
get 3 sets of blooms if the warm sunny weather lasts long enough. I always prune back the laterals after the flowers have faded, this will promote new flowering shoots for the next blooms. This climber needs lots of water and spraying to reduce black spot. "Ben Tuinman" wrote in message . .. We have had this climbing rose, called : Rosa Hybrid "Climbing Blaze" for a number of years. As in previous years it grows very well early in the season, and flowers in abundance. Again this year it has a tremendous "crop" so to speak that are about to show its blooms, a beautiful crimson red. Our trouble is that despite the promise on the label that this climber should bloom from spring to frost, it always only shows one crop of blooms during June/July, and then stops flowering. What should we do to promote blooms throughout the summer. Should it be pruned back in a certain way ? Right now we leave the canes alone, and only cut back the dead ones. Also, we train this climber sideways along our fence, in order to guide new loots upwards. We live in S.Ontario, zone 5, and the climber is located in a sunny location of our patio. Much obliged ! Ben. |
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