Thank you for the clear instruction Ben! When I hear pruning “6-9” inches, as a newbie I didn’t understand if it was from the ground or the branch it is coming from.
I have just ordered: Wedgwood, Emily Brontë , Gentle Hermione, Desdemona, and Gabriel Oak based off of your informative and very helpful reviews! My back yard is a south wests facing concrete slab (no grass), so I am so excited to start my container rose garden !! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all! I Love your straight to the point style and enthusiasm! I am new to roses but am excited to start learning, making mistakes and forming my own process in my garden! With love from Tacoma,WA - Frida
Hi Ben, here in my neck of the woods in America, Pacific Northwest, I've been told to remove all of your leaves on your roses during the winter. I have quite a few climbers that still have leaves and it's January. Should I remove them? Also thank you for such great videos and information! It's very much appreciated!
Hi Ben, thank you so much for your guide. I can't wait to see your next videos. I have just started my small DA collection. For the past 4 years I have been trying to teach myself how to look after 2 DA climbing roses in cold Ireland, not easy for a Brazilian from the tropics. The weather is definitely a challenge here. My Wedgewood and Wallerton Old Hall have been very forgiving of me as they have moved countries with me, from pot to soil to pot and re-potting. Last year I bought Lady Hamilton and Cathedral. This month I went crazy and bought the Queen of Sweden, Anlwick, Basheeba, wildeve, Claire Austin, and I am waiting for the bare root ones: Boscobel, Royal Jubilee and Lady Shalott. They will all be in pots due to lack og sun where my beds are. I would be thrilled to learn from you how to take care of them. Many many thanks, Tatiana
@@the_gardenerben I did thank you, I’m just back in. It feels so nerve racking for a novice and counter intuitive to cut away……but I have every faith my roses will be awesome in a few months. Thank you!
I pruned all my roses early last month. Then a light prune in March if needed. One rambler Paul’s Himalayan Musk will get a big prune job after it flowers this summer. Got to take out all the dead wood. It is 30 foot high. Makes life easy as a older gardener! Thanks!💐
GREAT GUIDE, THANKS! Wonderful idea, to tell us that WE are the master of the secateurs and the pruning regimen! It had to be said. Love your approach to pruning your roses with explanations about the growth of the rose and your imagination for the future form. Could you PLEASE film an overhead shot while pruning (maybe with a stativ and your phone?) for a better sight?! Again, thanks for providing much needed and highly appreciated advice! Best wishes, Hanni.
Really helpful and the dificulties are actually even more helpful than some edit making it all look easy! I have taken your advice and gone for what I enjoy...a modest Hedge with DA Gertrudes ...fingers crossed!
Hi Ben, love this guide, thank you. Very clear instructions. Just about time to prune here.🇦🇺 So glad I came across this video, helps to give confidence to do a more professional prune. 💞🙏
Informative video. It will be more enjoyable for old eyes if you record them in 19x6 format instead of portrait mode. Not everyone watches them on cell phone.
Thanks for the great information! Glad to know that I don't have to cut them as short as some people say. Are you going to do a climber as well? (hope so)
Hi there, Around 7.22 you say remove any wood you don't want to around 6/9 inches from where it came from, but you look like you're cutting them a lot shorter than that...unless by where they came from you mean the base of the whole bush? Thanks ,great vid.
I’m sorry if I’ve caused any confusion deadwood should be removed completely as should unwanted stems from the centre of the plant. Any other growth you wish to keep should be shortened back to around 6 to 9 inches from where it originates from. I prefer as I’ve mentioned in this video to choose an outward facing Budd when doing this.
Hi Ben! Great video!!! I live in Hawaii where it's always warm and my roses are all growing really tall with thick healthy canes. Even after the bloom is spent, I cut that cane down, short but the next shoot that pops out of that cane becomes tall again! Do I just leave my bushes tall?? Either that or I have to constantly be cutting them down. I'm new to raising roses so I'm always guessing about if I should cut them really short or just let them be tall. Please help..🤷♀️😩🙏🙏
Well now there’s a question that I unfortunately don’t have the answer to I have absolutely no experience in growing in your neck of the woods if you’re growing season is continuous I would continue with the routine that you have every 4 to 6 months pruning the spent canes down to around 18 inches in height from the ground continuingly replenishing with new growth
It is mid January now . I have put my potted roses into the garage for the winter. However, this winter has proved to by mild..and the roses are now budding out. what should I do with them? Keep them in garage or take outside where it is possible to turn much colder befor spring. Thanks for your help. Kathryn
Hi, and thank you for your question I get asked this question an awful lot and personally I would never bring the roses into the garage. They are so much better off outside taking the weather.
Ben, very detailed video about pruning roses!. What soil would you use for roses in container? I live in a small garden but would love to plant more D/Austin roses which are my fav.!
Hi if your planting into a pot I would use John innings number three it’s a soil or loam based compost I would blend this with a little bit of shrub and tree compost if you have it just open it up slightly
Hola Ben, estoy viendo todos tus vídeos y me surgen dudas. En el vídeo dices que más adelante echarás potasa y mantillo. Podrías indicarme cuando la echas? Gracias!
Hi Ben, I’m showing my age here but have you ever tried using a girdling knife on roses to cincher (or girdle/ring) the canes? It’s a really old way to manage fruit production in horticulture if you haven’t heard of it. Would it work with roses? Thanks for your guidance, tips and advice - I really appreciate your expertise and experience!
Hello I am very new to growing roses, I was given some to put in pots back in August. I'm not sure whether to prune them now as they are still flowering. I'm finding the prospect of pruning them really daunting and would appreciate some advice. If you are on twitter I could send some photos if that helps.
No need to prune just yet, winter has only just begun, I’ll be doing several “prune along” live videos hear And on my Instagram please join me for one of those
Hi Ben - thanks for this video. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, with very mild winters where my roses barely go dormant. I am pruning and defoliating now in January as recommended to get a little dormant time, but two of my bushes (Emily Bronte and Gertrude Jekyll) have new basal breaks - about 6” tall. My question is do I leave them alone, even though I am trying to encourage a little dormant period?
As I say in the video there is no rush to get this job done for winter and for the novice Gardner is best left as late as possible pruning young roses too early in early winter can often lead to frost and hold damage establish roses can be pruned earlier in November and December but I always leave mine to the back end of February and March
Ben, I have a Brother Cadfael that leans away from the house. About 8 canes that arch forward so that i can't tell what is the center. Canes are about 6 feet and some of them have limbs that either go straight up or in another direction entirely. I am so confused how to prune it.
Hi, it does sound like a bit of a conundrum do you use Instagram? If so please do send feel free to send me a picture. There are no more than happy. Take a look at it for you The_gardenerben
Hi, how do i prune a compassion climber that was planted only a year ago? I want it to be able achieve maximum spread so I can block out my nosey neighbour. 😂😂
Hi Ben - I’m in Zone 5b US. We’ve had a mild fall and I haven’t had a chance to prune. This is my first year growing Tranquility. She is my only DA rose. Can I still prune at this point, and should I cover with leaves and/or mulch to protect from snow? We do have a wooden piece(like a upside down V) to protect it from snow falling off the roof). Happy Christmas! Thanks
If I were you, I would take off any longer and spindly kinds as per my last pruning video and leave any harsh pruning such as what you see in this video until the winter has passed, and we are around five or six weeks from the spring in zone 5B, it would be beneficial to protect the crown of the plant with straw or like we are currently experiencing very strange and cold. Weather here in the UK.
Hi Ben thanks for the video. I have suffered terribly with sawfly this year and it has attacked all my roses. A lot of the stems are healing but should I prune lower than the damage? If so, this is concerning for my climbing roses as I'd be taking a lot off the main canes
Sawfly should only attack and eat soft tissue leaves and leaf stems they shouldn’t actually eat physical canes or anything That has already formed bark so you’re pruning regime should be unaffected
@@the_gardenerben thanks Ben. The lavae have aevthe leaves but the adults have sawn into the canes and lay their eggs. Some are quite a way down. I thought it was caterpillars at first. Little devil's
Hi Ben, great video as always. I have a 'Wedding Day' rambler from David Austin and this will be its first spring. The size it has reached in the first year alone is fantastic and of course expected. My question is "do I prune in its first spring and if so, to what extent?" also, a lot of the longest stems (10-12ft) are thin and wispy towards the ends, is this normal? Many Thanks Iain
A very early introduction from David Austin roses it is a large and vigourous shrub rose reaching over 6 feet if allowed to run you will definitely need loppers if you’re growing this rose I don’t have it at home but I do have it at work and a permanent framework that we prune back to is around 3 1/2 feet from the ground follow the same steps as in the video just 3 1/2 feet from the floor create an open bowl shape to the plant it is also quite nice to tear some of your side cuts around 6 to 8 inches in layers this way you’ll get a nice amended form to the flowering don’t deadhead this rose it produces great hips