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Could you help with how to prune this rose

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Many thanks  

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  • PhaidraPhaidra Posts: 582

    Hi, there is a wealth of information here:

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=186

    I hope it helps.

  • Many thanks
  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Pansyface is 99% correct Uptomeneck. You have two good stems left and treat them as described. Everything else has to come off, starting with the dead. The last stem you need to cut is the thick woody stem on the left and you don't do that till February/early March. You then get ruthless with it and take it out completely just above the point where it leaves the base of the rose. As the year progresses, you'll get a new red stem/s appearing from the base of the rose, and that will be the start of a new leader. You leave it grow, don't be tempted to bend it as they snap easily, as it turns from red to  green then you can think of tying it in. It looks like a climber of some sort and will need some trellis behind it. Fit that after you've taken out the thick stem, then when new growth starts in spring you can tie in as it grows.

  • Thank you Dave much appreciated
  • MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949

    Hi, hope you don't mind me asking, but is it normal to still be feeding roses at this time of year or is it because this one is poorly? Thanks

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Hi Meomye - don't feed roses now, it's too late in the season.
    Feeding now will encourage your rose to put on new growth just as the weather is turning and it's likely that the new growth will be damaged by cold and wind over the coming months.
    Give them a feed in early March and again in July - that's all they need.
    Most roses are starting to look a bit manky now.
    It's autumn (meteorologicaly) tomorrow!


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    A mulch of well rotted farmyard manure or good garden compost would be ok at this time of year.  Don't let the manure touch the stems.  image


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  • MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949

    Thanks Pete8 that's what I thought image 

    Dove Is it because the stems can get 'burnt'? 

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