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When to prune rose
Hi, I seem to remember Monty saying something about the time of year you prune your roses. What he said was if you prune it one point in the year, it will encourage new growth, and if you prune it at another time of year it will discourage growth. However, I can't remember the time of year he said. I have some climbing and rambling roses that I'd like to tidy up and maintain closer to the support, rather than heading off in every direction. Any ideas anyone?
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There are different pruning routines for ramblers which usually flower on wood produced the year before and climbers which do it on current season's growth. What you should be doing now is tying in your stems to their supports so they don't whip around in autumn gales and get broken and damaged. You need also to cut out any stems that won't be trained in or are growing in the wrong direction and any that are broken or damaged.
The RHS offers this advice - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=189 Scroll down for ramblers.
Funny this should come up I spent yesterday pruning ramblers, all the new shoots before they get caught by the wind!
climbers have been tamed and tied in.
shrub roses I will leave till late spring.
A A Milne
Thanks, I will have a go now then. What tends to happen is that I prune out growth that I don't want and seem to end up with even more as a result.