Winter Pruning Roses. How to prune roses, a guide to the winter pruning roses from Rankins Roses. 3 steps to pruning roses. Control of understock and winter pruning of modern roses.
Much has been written about Rose pruning over the last century, and often this information is very technical and sometimes confusing to the novice gardener.
After 20 years of growing roses commercially we have gained great results with simplified pruning methods in Summer & Winter rose pruning.
This is a general guide to these methods for our modern roses (not old world roses - non repeating & specie varieties).
There a 3 Golden Rules for Winter Pruning
1. Cut back your rose 50% in a rounded shape, whether old or freshly bought from your nursery.
2.Cut out any wood less than a pencil thickness.
3.Cut out any dead wood also.
That's it! Do not open up the middle of the plant in a vase shape or worry too much about crossing over branches. Modern roses are very vigorous and when grown in the correct position and looked after well, shall re-shoot & grow better with plant material left inside the framework than if it is cut out in the vase shape.
Every 3 to 5 years, if your rose bush is looking terribly woody and too many branches, you can remove any old very thick branches with a saw. This will to reduce the excess wood and encourage new water shoots.
Understock.
LOOK OUT FOR different coloured flower or foliage growing out of your rose. Most understocks (the rose your variety is grafted to) is either Dr Hueyor or Multiflora. The former has deep red cluster type flowers and Multiflora - white cluster type flowers. Both can send up a water shoot 2-3 metres in a matter of weeks during summer
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