Use Pruning Shears And Your Roses Will Bloom Again

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

If you don't know how to care for roses, a once luxuriously blooming flower bed can gradually lose its former lush bloom. What can prevent an outwardly healthy rose bush from tying buds and dissolving magnificent fragrant flowers? There may be several reasons. And to fix most of them, a sharp garden pruner comes in handy. Those growers who are sorry to cut their roses lose a lot. Such a technique is able not only to heal, but also to give a magical flowering to a bush, which, it would seem, has already lost its strength

To prevent roses from turning into rose hips

Roses are not the most cold-resistant plants. And so that the perennial can stay in the ground for the winter in harsh climatic conditions, varietal plants are grafted onto more frost-resistant rose hips. But sometimes it happens that after experiencing severe cold, next spring, along with varietal shoots, the root begins to drive out the so-called wild - that is, both roses and rose hips begin to live on the same bush. The latter turn out to be stronger than the scion, and if you do not get rid of them, then soon the queen of the garden, the rose, will turn into an ordinary wild rose.

You can fight this phenomenon, but you need to know the subtleties. The game needs to be cut off. But it is not recommended to do this in the aboveground part. When this is done over the leaf, a bud will develop from the sinus again and a new shoot will appear. Therefore, you need to shake off the ground from the rosehip shoot and cut it closer to the root, under the lowest leaf.

Another question that a gardener may have is how to distinguish between shoots, varietal or wild? First of all, they pay attention to the leaves. Wild rose hips have seven (rarely nine) on one petiole. The leaf plate is matte, light green. Varietal roses, as a rule, have five leaves (but there are varieties with a different amount), the plate often has a glossy shine. Another feature of roses is that young shoots and leaves have a burgundy hue. When the variety and the wild grow side by side, these differences are very clearly visible.

If the rose starts to "go blind"

Another nuisance that can overtake your rose garden after adverse weather conditions is the appearance of blind shoots. This is the name of the shrub twigs that stop their growth, but are not crowned with a bud. This happens not only after a record cold winter, but also in an overly hot summer. Also, the cause of the formation of blind shoots is the invasion of parasites in the garden.

In this case, a pruner will also help the florist. But this time, the pruning should not be done under the bottom leaf. On the contrary, you need to cut off the above-ground part - the top above the sheet with the second or third sheet. This technique stimulates the development of a new kidney from the sinus. And on the new shoot, the long-awaited bud will already be tied.

What to do with roses after flowering?

Arranging a second wave of flowering in your rose garden is a completely doable task. To do this, you need to monitor which shoots the roses are already fading. They will need to be cut off. But at the same time, not only the top is removed. Together with her, they capture a shoot with 3 real leaves. The lower the branch is cut, the stronger the new shoot will go, and thus you can arrange a second season of bud formation in the flower garden. Along with this, it is useful to feed the plants with nitrogen fertilizers.

And for those who feel sorry for cutting off such large shoots - a small life hack. What will be removed from the bush can be turned into planting material. Cut shoots are almost ready-made cuttings for rooting and propagation of your favorite variety. Only the lower part will need to be shortened and the leaf removed, and the upper pair will need to be cut in half. In this form, the stalk is poisoned into the pot and hides under the jar.