Obviously would have been better to wait later in the year or next spring, assuming there was a good reason for it. Would have definitely removed flowers and buds. Huge amount of water daily. Ours took a year to recover.
@Jac19 - the older shoots and the new shoots are all fed off the same root system by a mechanism called osmosis. The newer shoots are soft tissue and that wilts when short of water whilst the older shoots have matured and become woody so can't wilt but can dry out and die.
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Thanks everyone for the advise. We had to move it as we had renovations down, and it was in the way. Im going to read up how to prune, I'm very nervous as not had roses before. Outward facing bud cut sharp slanting away....ok but wheres the bud there are any now. Il find a friend who loves Roses to help me.
..don't bother reading up how to prune, it's only for the fussy.. handed down from the days of exhibiting roses, you're not doing that are you?
...just cut where it's convenient to cut... I've no idea what your plant looks like - no picture - but assuming it was a few feet tall, then you should cut at least half back.. the most important thing for the plant now is water at the roots... a bucket of water to the roots each day for for about a week will keep it going through this current dry spell.. it's bone dry here in East Anglia...as all the foliage will have wilted, you might as well snip the leaves off because they won't recover..
If it's still alive late winter, tidy it up then by pruning hard back to about 1 foot above the ground, and remember, don't worry where you cut.. I understand the need to move things out of season.. best of luck with your rose..
..in case you're still looking in, I like to give examples... here's one I moved 3 weeks ago.. a climber, it was 6 feet at the time, reduced to 3 feet, and defoliated... watered with the hose every day for the first week... it's important to also hydrate the green canes by hosing over them during this time..
...shooting out nicely... no need to worry about soft growth in early autumn, for most of us..
@TSM ...thanks for the picture... if you have the time, get a scissors and snip off all those leaves, they're all dead and won't recover.. I can see a lot of brown wood developing which means it's dying back quite a bit, but it should recover from low down, so all is not lost.. .. just water every day for the next week or so, including the stems as I said, and see how it goes ... that's all you can do for the moment as it's just on survival mode.. ..best of luck..
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...just cut where it's convenient to cut... I've no idea what your plant looks like - no picture - but assuming it was a few feet tall, then you should cut at least half back.. the most important thing for the plant now is water at the roots... a bucket of water to the roots each day for for about a week will keep it going through this current dry spell.. it's bone dry here in East Anglia...as all the foliage will have wilted, you might as well snip the leaves off because they won't recover..
If it's still alive late winter, tidy it up then by pruning hard back to about 1 foot above the ground, and remember, don't worry where you cut..
I understand the need to move things out of season.. best of luck with your rose..
...shooting out nicely... no need to worry about soft growth in early autumn, for most of us..
see pic. I cut back by a 1/3 yesterday. Should I do more. It looks so sick
...thanks for the picture... if you have the time, get a scissors and snip off all those leaves, they're all dead and won't recover.. I can see a lot of brown wood developing which means it's dying back quite a bit, but it should recover from low down, so all is not lost..
.. just water every day for the next week or so, including the stems as I said, and see how it goes ... that's all you can do for the moment as it's just on survival mode..
..best of luck..
I've done the same with roses in the past and several other plants this very season.
As @Marlorena says [ a notable Rose expert ], a lot of the stems are brown and will die.
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