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Any rose experts out there?

Darren8Darren8 Posts: 46
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Afternoon all.

I've googled this question but can't seem to get a definitive answer.

I've got a lovely Malvern Hills rambling rose which I intend planting over the weekend on a wall supported by wires.

I have a climbing rose on the other side of the wall which I've trained in horizontal criss crossing rows and which is doing very well.

Do I use the same training method for a rambling rose or just leave it to its own devices to "ramble"?

Thanks in advance

Darren

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  • Hortum-cretaeHortum-cretae Posts: 979

    Rambling roses usually flower just once in the season,but there are some repeat flowerers now, confusingly and Malvern Hills is one such, so all you do is remove the old flowered growth as it goes along. It'll actually flower most of the summer. They happily combine with other types. Pruning climbers happens is in summer, too, after the first flush of flowers, removing much of the old flowered wood (twigs/stems) so that the plant concentrates on producing strong new growth for a second flush later in the year).  New shoots are tied in as they grow. The aim is to keep a succession of replacement growth coming, ensuring a healthy plant.  Food and water, food and water.  Does that help?  

    H-C

  • Darren8Darren8 Posts: 46

    Thanks H-C

    It certainly does help on the upkeep side of things (and probably saves me posting a pruning question a few months down the line) but what about the actual training of these things?

    Do they need training as such ie train the main stems horizontal so the offshoot branches produces more flowers all the way up the plant instead of just at the top?

    Or will just letting it "ramble" its own way up the wall produce flowers all the way up the growth as well?

    Darren

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    My Malvern Hills in Belgium needed guiding so yes - use some horizontal wires as you have for your other rose.  It will help you train the stems horizontally or diagonally and thus induce more flowers.  Dead head regularly to keep it flowering too.

    I liked mine so much I've bought another for this new garden and will be training it over a rigid wire mesh fence.

    Last edited: 19 May 2017 14:42:59

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  • Darren8Darren8 Posts: 46

    Thank you Obelixx.

    I'll do just that.

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