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Rose Pruning Tips
Pruning Your RosesHere are some basic rose pruning tips and pruning hints for roses. Pruning roses is an important gardening task. Pruning or trimming roses stimulates new growth, opens up the plant to increase air circulation, eliminates some pests, and creates a more attractive, managable plant. However, newly planted roses should be given a couple a season or two without pruning to be allowed to grow flowering canes. Hybrid tea roses need more pruning to promote flowering than shrub roses. Climbing roses should not be pruned for the first two years. They need time to grow long canes for flower production.
after that time , only prune the lateral shoots growing from the main canes down to about 4 inches or so.
Rose Pruning
The best time for pruning roses and the fine points of pruning depends on the particular species, but fortunately, there are some general rules that make so much sense that you can't forget them. Remember that repeat-blooming roses flower on all the growth produced during the season as well as
from previous year's growth. These species fare best with a severe, early spring pruning.
Remove
as much as two-thirds of the plant to stimulate new growth.
Garden frog on rose leaves
General Pruning Guidelines# 1: Make all cuts on an angle, 1/4 inch above a bud. The bud should be at the top part of the slant and should point towards the outside of the plant.
# 2: Remove all canes that show unusual discoloration or blotches; this could be disease.
# 3: Remove all dead canes.
# 4: Remove all weak spindly looking canes as well as those that cross another cane.
# 5: Remove suckers growing from the root stock; the leaves will be different, so it's easy to identifying them.
# 6: Trim back all remaining canes, always cutting on an angle with an outside bud at the top of the slant.
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