Any gardeners on here right now?

[user123]

We've got a climbing rose by our front door, that was tied into a frame, and it's collapsed, yesterday I reckon, so it's draping itself more or less across the front door!

It's gone a bit straggley anyhow, and just looking at it am wondering, is it ok to prune it now? Quite low, so it can start again, I won't loose too many roses, it's more branches and leaves and dead wood this year after a dense pink glory last year! Standing ready with secateurs, can I go ahead?

 

[Brassjewels]

Hi- amateur garener here !You can prune now, but very much doubt you would have a full show of flowers - especially if they are already covered in buds ready to burst. As a temp measure - can you untangle and prune to say around 5' in height ? Prune back to were you can see nodes/new growth / buds showing & tie the stems in an orderely fashion onto a trellis. When the season is over you could do a drastic prune and cut back low if necessary.

 

[DHTiling]

Plants have feelings... Murderer..:lol:

 

[user123]

Brassjewels - Hi and thanks I've been pretty brutal already, but only after watching a couple of you tube how-to-prune-roses movies and followed that guide, pretty much to what you said above but what was once around 7ft high has not been reduced and thinned out to sections of 3 - 5 ft, so it's looking very chopped and pretty sparse. Vase full of bedraggled looking roses, I'll call it rustic I pruned nicely to just above the little nodes or buds that face in the direction I want things to grow, quite proud of myself there, :lol: So, just a bit more to do and then tidy up, that was a nice fresh air studio break

 

[user123]

Plants have feelings... Murderer..:lol:

Haha, you didn't think I could do it, could you. I did say sorry Chop. Sorry. Chop. Sorry. Chop. It's for your own good. Chop. You'll have loads of pretty flowers again - big chop. Domino thinks it's a new game and chasing the branches being blown about in the wind.. and he's been locked into the living room 2 nights running, I'm getting ruthless!!!

 

[Brassjewels]

Well done Mosaic Girl- just like having a hair cut really to keep neat & certainly isn't murder as somebody pointed out. I've an old rose outside the window that gets brutally chopped down every year & still puts out a stunning display of flowers each time. It's a bit loose @ the moment, but can't interfere as there are a couple of demonic blackbirds guarding their nest.

 

[user123]

Thanks for defending me BJ, :lol: but no need, Dave and I are good friends, and understand each other's humour. I am very pleased with how it looks now, kind of tidy and ready to show itself off again, and the living room is full of the scent of the roses that did have to be sacrificed in the process, quite lovely really

 

[DHTiling]

Nowt like a neatly trimmed bush lol lol


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[user123]

Nowt like a neatly trimmed bush lol lol


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I was counting down to ten earlier, expecting you to come out with that little chestnut... you're late!