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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: tim on July 09, 2004, 17:32:18
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What, pray, would YOU do with this?? Daughter's house next door!
"Vigorous, 12x10ft, needs little pruning. blooms on new wood, prune early, repeat blooming". Virtually all the growth is at the top.
That's a climbing hydrangea below. = Tim
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Oh dear Tim :-\ hope that mine doesnt end up looking like that... Ime hoping that it will soon grow and cover my pergola(well part of it any way)Only thing that I can suggest is to cut it right back next spring and start again.
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Learn to abseil!
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Strangely enough, we had a 30' conifer cut down today on the green I was standing on for the photo, & the chap had to abseil to do it. = Tim
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Madame was on the Gardeners World special this evening, the lady had the exact same problem as your daughter! If I remember correctly the advice given was to cut it right back as Mimi suggested!
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And I never even thought of weed killer ...............
or did I. hmmmmmmmm?
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Eric, you wouldn't ?? = Tim
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Tim, I was looking at the beautiful houses not the rose!
Similar question on the gardener's world roadshow last night as Doris said. The answer stuck in my mind because I was surpirsed at the time the lady was told to prune: September to November.
Presuming your daughter wants multi stemmed rose with blooms not just at the top?
The advice was firstly, and of no use now, always cut back a climbing/rambling rose to base when planted to ensure multi stemmed growth.
That apart, the advice given was to be brave and cut to just above where the rose stem first branches, thus encouraging new growth. Each year thereafter cut one stem back as far as possible and after a few years you will have new fresh growth to replace all the old. Oh, and tie in horizontally. Hope this makes sense. Let us know what you decide.
:)