Pruning Climbing Roses
Mme. Alfred Carriere at Mottisfont Abbey in England. You've pruned a few shrub roses and now you are ready to try your hand at pruning a climbing rose. With pruners in gloved hands you bravely approach your climbing rose that has been growing willy-nilly all season long. Standing there, peering up at this mess you...
Rejuvenating An Old Climbing Rose
The arbor to the left is the one I took the cold cane out of Most rose books somewhere in their section on pruning climbing roses talk about occasionally removing an old cane. They suggest this because doing so spurs new growth in the form of fresh canes that flower better. This constant process rejuvenates...
Taking Your Roses To New Heights – Into The Trees
The rambling rose Newport Fairy two stories up a tree and in full bloom. Most of you have likely read in a book or heard someone talk about growing roses into trees. You may have seen photos of rambling roses spilling out of trees in a canopy of blooms. But exactly how do you do...
Training Climbing Roses On A Trellis
Train the canes of climbing roses as horizontal as possible to get a wall of flowers effect. I know this has happened to you. You buy a climbing rose, plant it, train the canes straight up the trellis and the rose only blooms way up at the top. Not the wall of roses you imagined!...
Pillaring A Climbing Rose
Parure d'Or a Delbard rose trained on a pillar. We love climbing roses. But, like many gardeners we've run out of fences, walls and arbors to put them on. There is an easy solution to putting a climbing rose anywhere you want and it's called pillaring. Basically, you install a structure and then wrap the...
Filling An Arbor With Roses
The arbor on our farm as the roses begin to grow in. In a few years they will completely fill it up. When I put my first climbing roses an an arbor I noticed after a few years it had lots of blooms across the top but very little up the side. In trying to...
Noisettes – America’s Native Climbing Roses
Paul F. Zimmerman Originally published in The Rose Reporter - 1995 Followed by The Rose, the official publication of the American Rose Society. - 1996 As the search for landscape roses continues to heat up, as the big rose growers continue to introduce new shrubs for this purpose, can a passion for climbers be not...
Training Long Shrub Roses on a Low Wire
While leading my Rose Garden Tour in France in 2023, I came across this neat way of training shrub roses with long canes at Roseraie du Val-de-Marne or better known as Roseraie de L'Haÿ. Check it out!
The Art of Pruning: Sculpting Your Roses to Perfection
By Nina Summer Roses enhance gardens with their color and fragrance, but with such a great choice of varieties, each with their own qualities, roses can also be trained in imaginative ways to create free-standing domes, cover architectural arches and even wind through trees. Whether you want to sculpt formal topiary bushes, control unruly climbing roses or train rambling varieties,...
Training The Direction of New Canes On A Climbing Rose.
We all love when new canes emerge from the base of any rose and particularly old climbing roses. But what do you do when the canes are growing away from the structure you want to climb them on. This episode gives you a quick and easy solution. https://youtu.be/acpKe4r5iw0
How to remove climbing roses from a structure to repair it.
Have you ever had to remove climbing roses from a fence or arbor to repair the structure. Not sure what to do with the roses? In this video I show you how to safely remove and secure the roses, then put them back when repairs are done. All without losing all your spring flowering. The...
