How to Prune Roses: the Beginners Guide
How to Prune Roses for beginners. This guide will help you prune your roses even if you don't know what type of rose you have. Pruning helps promote masses of gorgeous flowers and is really easy!
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hi welcome back to garden ninja today's video is going to be on pruning roses but this isn't like every other video out there if like me you've inherited a load of really old frankly ugly roses that look in a real mess then this videos for you because I'm going to show you how you can renovate old tired broken roses and turn them into beautiful specimens so come on let's get cracking!
Now there are loads of different types of roses and each of them has a slightly nuanced version of pruning the guide I'm going to give you today should help cover most of those the roses I'll be showing you today at hybrid tea roses and what that means is that they grow a stem that has one flower on in the summer you've also got floribunda roses which have the stem but with multiple clusters of flowers now the only difference is with a hybrid tea you can prune a bit more than you can with a floribunda
You want to take off maybe only a quarter not a third whereas a hybrid tea Rose you can be a bit firmer now winter is an ideal time to prune your roses and what we're aiming to do is to take out any of the deadwood the old unproductive stems and prune back to an outward facing bud so dead and damaged old would prune to an out facing bud I'm going to show you how to do that now.
So the first thing I'm going to do is take out any Deadwood but you can tell up usually dark brown and if you slip a bit off its kind of crispy
in the middle so here we've got a really good example of a dead stem and this is called necrosis where the tissue dies and it goes all the way back now we do have a pod here and it's facing inwards so we don't want nothing it's with my sharp secateurs we're going to nip this off here right back and angle so that the water can run off this is a prime example of old wards I'm going to take that right the way back really sharp cut this may look brutal and she's following me down here on this really leggy growth you've got here and outward facing bud so I'm going to nip it off there look really brutal take a stand back and you'll see the kind of height I'm taking off anything that's crossing I'm also gonna take out so this one here it's just sending out growth into the middle I don't want that snip that off so to give you an idea of the scale I've taken this Bush down from about here to here all the growth that's facing inwards that dead material and I've taken 1/3 off all of this year's
growth as well so here you can see that there were two stems crossing over here they've gone and tidied up so you've still got all these stems and little buds that are ready for this year's growth if it would say hard food all the way down you'll have to wait a year to grow again
So even if your roses are looking really old and tired by taking them back and being patient you can bring them back to life you don't just need to hack them right the way back to the bottom you can do it in stages and then you'll get the benefit of some farmers this year and
each year it will get better and better and better that's always gonna be a few examples that don't quite fit the rulebook and this is one of them so some roses are going to be in such a bad way like this behind me it's a bit like an old witch's finger and no matter what you do with the new growth trying to renovate it it's never going to have a huge amount of impact so in these cases we're gonna have to use sharp loppers and take it back to the ground because that's the only way you can really renovate it.
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