Rose Pruning Update From The Palace Of Gold

Didn’t go according to plan!

In the past tense their pruning practice session has always been to cut the roses to about 6″ in high spirits in the fall and then mound mulch over them . It ’s worked , but I was hoping we might be capable to leave them taller and prune in spring . My idea of will them taller and then dress taller in spring was to have fuller roses and therefore more blooms . As a first step we did the gamy potassium eating I pen about in a previous post late last fall . Then , alternatively of cutting the roses to 6″ , they just cut them to about 3′ or so . We still mounded mulch over the bases just in a compositor’s case .

Just in suit happened ! It was an singular wintertime in West Virginia and when I returned to the garden in other April to work with them at pruning time we were faced with a lot of dead canes above the footing . We had some overlord gardeners working with this and they reported widespread wintertime legal injury this past season all over the area so I roll in the hay it was n’t just us or because we tried something different .

As we trim it became obvious the best matter to do was only do what they unremarkably did in the gloaming . veer everything down to 6″ or less . We could see we had plenty of live growth emerging so the unproblematic task here was to get the bushed wood out of the path .

While this could have been a catastrophe it was n’t because we had always done a few things just in case a winter liked this happened . These are what I ’d wish to pass on to you .

1 ) Always , always immerse the bud unification when you establish roses . Because they had done that over the long time of planting this garden everything below the soil layer was active and just waiting for spring to pop up . I ’m sure we lost a few rose but not many . Bury it at least 2 inches deep .

2 ) Mound mulch over the base of the works in drop to tender even further protection . It was quite interesting to see that in most display case the live growth carry to just above the mulch level .

3 ) Be prepared to punt ! horticulture is not an exact thing from class to class . Nature often throws breaking ball balls so roll with the clout .

4 ) If at first you do n’t come after you might not want to try again ! Next class we are pass back to their old practice of edit the rose back hard in the downslope . We try something new , it did n’t puzzle out and so we go back to what did employment .

As I ’ve never really garden in a on-key cold-blooded weather climate this has been a great hands on experience . Which leads me to point # 5 .

5 ) Just because you have a rose care book out and write the rosiness blog for Fine Gardening does n’t mean you know everything and ca n’t still keep determine ! ! ! 🙂

Happy RoseingPaul

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One of the roses after pruning. The next chore is to do some detail work in a few weeks and clean up additional dead growth.Photo/Illustration: Paul Zimmerman Roses