@Lizzie27, not as a matter of course, but, again if they cannot support the weight of the blooms or causing congestion at the centre of the rose, I would probably snip them back. I think you just have to use your judgement when doing your winter pruning and shaping. If I have two crossing/rubbing branches and need to prune one out, I would generally prune the weaker, twiggier one out. Cane A in my earlier photo is also crossing with the stronger cane next to it, so double reason to get rid of it!
@Katsa I agree with @Omori on both not planting too close to hedges and mixing in dry compost if you have to plant when it’s wet and claggy. You could always lift it and temporarily pot it up until conditions are drier or you find a better spot.
The weather has gone from being very wintery to gloriously warm and sunny over the past week and some roses, like LD Braithwaite, are enjoying a late lease of life:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've lifted and moved another couple of feet away from the hedge, so they're now about 4ft. However, I did that before seeing the advice about mixing dry soil. I'm not going to have time to lift them again for a week. Do you think they'll be okay? There was some compost and topsoil mixed in, but it was pretty wet as well because of the weather. I'm all worried now 😬😬
I've just dug up my Gentle Hermione, but looking at the root it doesn't seem to have gone too well. I've just been left with a main root with very little coming off it. Is it worth carrying on and pot it up as I had intended or just whizz it.
@peteS what a shame. I'm no expert but personally I would still give it a go in a pot. I recently dug up a young tree to sell on. The roots were pretty poor despite being in the ground for over a year. I potted it and a month later it had loads of amazing new roots on it. Nothing to lose by trying.
@Katsa I think you are stressing about it too much. Everything is wet now. I have some buckets outside and they are almost full after the last three days. If your soil drains well, it shouldn't cause problems.
The only rose I still have in full bloom at the moment is Leonardo da Vinci. First photo was taken on 21/10 and second one taken today 11 days later. I think it's done really well despite all the bad weather we've been having.
Lots of buds on Rhapsody in Blue. Hoping we get a dry spell so they open.
Thanks @edhelka. I had enough daylight to dig up the bare roots and mix with some dry soil. But I'll leave the rest and just keep and eye. I think I'll do more harm than good digging them up again. Soil is pretty well draining and had a fresh lot of gold compost dug in. I needed to get the roald dahl roses moved to make room for the new lot coming.
Evening Rose gurus, so today I started cutting back a very overgrown honeysuckle covering a pergola, when lo and behold I found a rose behind it all, that I was completely oblivious to. I assume it to be a climber, it has thrown up 2 long canes (one was dead and which I have removed to base) about the thickness of a thumb and totally devoid of foliage or shoots up to about 2m and then with growth above that on 3 branches (which was over the top of my shed and thus unseen) So I abandoned my honeysuckle pruning and started working on the rose. I was in mind to just cut back the healthy main cane to quite low and start again with it, but as I could find no sign of buds lower on the cane instead I have coerced the main vertical cane to bend horizontally along a trellis rail and then trained off the 3 upper shoots both horizontally and fanned across the trellis side of the pergola in the hope of regenerating some lower growth. Will this work? or should I be better just to cut it back low and start again? Photos tomorrow if this would help. Cheers Owd
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@Katsa I agree with @Omori on both not planting too close to hedges and mixing in dry compost if you have to plant when it’s wet and claggy. You could always lift it and temporarily pot it up until conditions are drier or you find a better spot.
Lots of buds on Rhapsody in Blue. Hoping we get a dry spell so they open.
so today I started cutting back a very overgrown honeysuckle covering a pergola, when lo and behold I found a rose behind it all, that I was completely oblivious to.
I assume it to be a climber, it has thrown up 2 long canes (one was dead and which I have removed to base) about the thickness of a thumb and totally devoid of foliage or shoots up to about 2m and then with growth above that on 3 branches (which was over the top of my shed and thus unseen)
So I abandoned my honeysuckle pruning and started working on the rose.
I was in mind to just cut back the healthy main cane to quite low and start again with it, but as I could find no sign of buds lower on the cane instead I have coerced the main vertical cane to bend horizontally along a trellis rail and then trained off the 3 upper shoots both horizontally and fanned across the trellis side of the pergola in the hope of regenerating some lower growth.
Will this work?
or should I be better just to cut it back low and start again?
Photos tomorrow if this would help.
Cheers
Owd