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Should I be deadheading these roses?

LatimerLatimer Posts: 1,068
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Morning all

I have a couple of roses that I nicked from a redevelopment job I was doing so I don’t know what they are. 

I think roses that have hips should not be deadheaded, right? But how do I know, because I didn’t pay attention last year! 🙈

Can you tell from these images whether it not I should be deadheading?

 Thanks!

 Rose 1:


Rose 2:

I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Latimer said:
    "I don't know what I'm doing"

    But you'll soon learn, you've got your hands nice and dirty.

    I think it's obvious which dead heads will dwfinitely come to nothing.  The plants will look better without these.  As for the others, leave them and observe.

    I grow gallica and alba roses and never get any hips.  I also grow a Rambling Rector and may get just a couple on a massive plant.  Gardening is full of surprises.




     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    The roses you have there are modern types, so they should be deadheaded for repeat flowering... in your 3rd pic where the stem has gone black, that wouldn't produce a hip in any case..

    'Rambling Rector' produces a whole mass of hips in autumn, and is a feature of the plant..
    https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.308718

    East Anglia, England
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I'd deadhead them all to see if they bloomed again, @LateralBreaks. Am a greedy cah when it comes to flowers, though!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Marlorena I grow R Rushing Stream, David Austin states good for hips but last year they all went black so I had to remove them all. Not sure if it is related to growing conditions do you have any thoughts please?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Xpost- there were no other replies visible when I posted. Seems to happen a fair bit on here just now.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @WAMS I think it can be slow. Perhaps it's the weather!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    Think it depends on your Internet speed @WAMS … when the newer posts appear that is, not the rosehips 😂 

    As @Marlorena has described, my Rambling Rector in a previous garden was absolutely covered with hips every autumn … a real picture … passers by could  be heard remarking on it. 😊 

    I would just point out that a few roses naturally have black hips .., there was a rose in a garden I moved to many years that had little black hips … I tried to find out what sort it was but never succeeded … it was the days before the Internet … now I think it may have been this 
    https://www.classicroses.co.uk/roses/burnet-double-white-shrub-rose.html 
    It had a beautiful scent. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LatimerLatimer Posts: 1,068
    Thank you all, deadheading underway!
    I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 
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