@Pete_L ...yes you can cut it back by about one third, but it produces new buds continuously, so you may well find you are cutting off stems with flower buds on them... I only pruned it once during winter, then deadheaded the rest of the summer.. I wouldn't cut any more than that, it's best allowed to grow fairly tall, about 6 foot if you can allow it.. not a rose for heavy pruning..
@Pete_L ...oh I'm so sorry to have missed that,... looking back at your photo of the crown, I can see they are coming from below the graft, but because it's been planted some way above soil level, it was not easy to tell there..
...pull that lot right out from the base back to the graft.. fortunately as they are just above soil level, that shouldn't be too difficult... best to plant roses with the graft union below soil level, it tends to inhibit suckering...
...sorry once again... in not picking that up..
excuses, excuses, but in my defence, I don't always have sufficient time to look at things in acute detail at the moment, especially with not being able to enlarge pictures here... but you supplied decent evidence though.. it did look as though you had 2 distinct bushes there, very confusing..
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Just one last question! If those new canes grow long and spindly like last year, should I cut it back a bit during summer?
...yes you can cut it back by about one third, but it produces new buds continuously, so you may well find you are cutting off stems with flower buds on them... I only pruned it once during winter, then deadheaded the rest of the summer.. I wouldn't cut any more than that, it's best allowed to grow fairly tall, about 6 foot if you can allow it.. not a rose for heavy pruning..
Uh ohhh!
These are the flowers appearing in the back growth that's shooting up. Doesn't look like Thomas A Becket.
Pretty sure it's safe now to chop those 2 canes growing off the rootstock at the back?
...oh I'm so sorry to have missed that,... looking back at your photo of the crown, I can see they are coming from below the graft, but because it's been planted some way above soil level, it was not easy to tell there..
...pull that lot right out from the base back to the graft.. fortunately as they are just above soil level, that shouldn't be too difficult... best to plant roses with the graft union below soil level, it tends to inhibit suckering...
...sorry once again... in not picking that up..
excuses, excuses, but in my defence, I don't always have sufficient time to look at things in acute detail at the moment, especially with not being able to enlarge pictures here... but you supplied decent evidence though.. it did look as though you had 2 distinct bushes there, very confusing..
The pictures weren't great and made it difficult and not seeing it in person made hard to judge. Zooming would be a good feature. Admins!!!
Chop chop!
Thanks both