Winter rose pruning guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- In this last longer video in my Winter Rose pruning guide I talk history how to prune a bush rose clearing the centre of the plant allowing light and air circulation removing of the dead dying diseased and lastly crossing growth before pruning to strong outwardly facing buds To create the ideal goblet or bowl shaped plant

I really love your "It's your plant; do as you pleast with it" attitude. Great video! Very informative. Thank you!
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.
Hey there Ben!! What a great video on wintering potted roses. I feel so informed when I watch your videos. Keep them coming!👏🏻👏🏻🇨🇦
Hi thank you glad you found it helpful 💚
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
You have made some lovely choices I’m glad to have been able to assist do let me know how you get on with them
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
Ben, thanks so much for the incredible information and passion that you share. You are most helpful and appreciated.
Thank you I’m glad you found it useful
❤❤❤AWESOME VIDEO‼️ You’re such a good teacher & I love your sincere care & love for your roses❣️🥰❤️ Debbie ~ Texas, USA 🇺🇸
Thank you 💚
Very informative video👍❤️
Brilliant video, thank you. Now off I skip to the garden to snip snip snip 😃
Have fun !
@@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!💐
Excellent tips 👌 Thanks Ben 😊
Awesome. Thank you for sharing
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!
Very informative, thank you.
Thank you, have got 9 David Austen
Yes really helpful, thank you. . I have a Bronte and also inherited a very old but obviously Austen Rose... +
Brill guide. Thanks a mil!!!
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.
I can give that a go
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.
💞🙏
It’s a pleasure
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!
这个玫瑰很壮实，养的太好了
Thank you this was very helpful!
Your most welcome
Can I cut back an old stem that’s 1.20cms it has stems of central stem so nothing lower than 1.20 . Iceberg climber I think 🤔
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.
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)
Thank you I may not get time but I’m am
Trying
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
Another really helpful video ,Can i ask what you clean your pruners with Ben Thanks
You can use all sorts from very very dilute bleach/disinfectant and nemo oil white vinagar
@@the_gardenerben You are a gem thank you Ben
Thanks for your reply,
When you say "where it originates from" do you mean where it comes off a thicker main stem?
Cheers.
Yes or from the ground
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.
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.
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
Hi Ben, super video as always, thank you. When you've finished the whole pruning do you suggest mulching? Many thanks.....Tina (Dublin, Ireland ☘🙂)
Oh yes mulch mulch mulch !!!
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!
Goodness me, that’s not something I’ve ever heard of. I’ll go and take a look at the Internet
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
Thanks for the video. Sorry if you have already answered this but how do you recommend sanitising the secateurs ? Thanks.
It at all ask
Away, you can use warm soapy water, a disinfectant such as zoeflora
@@the_gardenerben oh great, thank you 🩷
Hi, thanks Ben. What month is best to do this for in time for Winter. Thanks a lot!
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
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?
Strong basal breaks
Sorry, just to clarify, do you mean that they’re sending up new shoots or they have split?
Thanks - sorry I didn’t see your reply sooner. They are sending up new shoots
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 - 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.
Thank you Ben
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
Hi it will need some pruning yes have you tied it in/trained it ?
@@the_gardenerben I've started to yes, it's tied into a shed and archway (still a way to go of course)
Awesome .Great explanation but you should wear gloves.
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. 😂😂
How do you prune Morning Mist?
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
Thanks for the advice that's great 😊