@newbie77@poppyfield64 hi, yes, I’ve just deadheaded the second flush, and loads of new shoots/buds forming. Mine is still a baby but I have high hopes for the future!
Thanks @Lizzie27. I bought mine as a bare root in march so have got many blooms but it very much looks like a shrub rather than a climber. Hopefully, it'll throw out long shoots next season so I can start training it. Right now it just looks like a mess.
I noticed that older rose canes or branches, when cut (and aged), look like this:
The radial pattern is quite remarkable. Is the inner circle the first cane and the radial pattern the trace from how it subsequently thickened? I find the pattern a bit unusual.
Hi @Katsa I am also finding my Iceberg `climber` (bare root, March) much more worrying than my bush roses. It has no long canes at all, nothing longer than c. 12 inches. I was worried about deadheading as this effectively cuts the canes, which I thought you weren't supposed to do on a climber, so I just left them - and I found that the dead flower stems actually drop off themselves. Obviously I don't know if this will be same with CA! Like you, I am hoping for long climber canes next season...
Thanks @Omori and @Pianoplayer . I've been deadheading CA all summer, but will now stop and fingers crossed it will send up strong basal shoots at some point - either from now until the end of the growing season, or at the start of next season. CA's been badly affected by sawfly as well, so is looking so sorry for itself. It has lots of stems, but all bar one are less than 12" long.
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Thank you. This one i really would love to get.
And just to throw this one in too as I took the photos at the same time