Thanks Hortum. Will certainly not prune so hard in future. Hopefully will have flowers galore next year. Yes Fairygirl it really is great and very helpful.
Watching this with interest, as my Madame is also 2 and only madly producing greenery at the moment, at an impressive rate, but no flowers.
I have trained mine horizontally and it looks nice and full, but I'd just like to ask whether I ought to be pruning it at all in autumn/Spring, or leaving it until it flowers!
Last autumn I only tidied it up very conservatively, as I was under the assumption it's best to leave climbing roses 3 odd years before radically pruning.
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Isn't this a great forum Lindylou?
Where else you can get first hand knowledge and experience at the click of a mouse
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks Hortum. Will certainly not prune so hard in future. Hopefully will have flowers galore next year. Yes Fairygirl it really is great and very helpful.
Hi Lindylou
Great advice from Hortum. You might find this video helpful - I think it's sometimes good to see someone doing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7F5qhChFM&list=TLNCzpTKkDY0nE6rBafx18XuLbbsz3237Y
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi dovefromabove. That video was really helpful. Thank you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi runnybeak she is also my third. She was 12 yesterday so she is an old lady now
Watching this with interest, as my Madame is also 2 and only madly producing greenery at the moment, at an impressive rate, but no flowers.
I have trained mine horizontally and it looks nice and full, but I'd just like to ask whether I ought to be pruning it at all in autumn/Spring, or leaving it until it flowers!
Last autumn I only tidied it up very conservatively, as I was under the assumption it's best to leave climbing roses 3 odd years before radically pruning.
Was I wrong?
Madame as in rose version, rather than dog version
We have already decided to get a rescue shepherd when the time comes but she is fine at the moment