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Today on gardening with Creekside we are pruning some landscape roses and Pinnacle hydrangeas now
if you are new to the channel remember we are in North Carolina a Zone 7B and of course the wind
just decided to pick up as we started the video so hopefully everything is good I'm telling you
again if you're new or you've been here for a while I just tell it how it is full disclosure
so I've I recorded this whole video doing great did the whole thing finished the video realized
I did not have my microphone on so we're gonna try to save this video Even though maybe it won't come
out exactly how I planned it still will be very helpful and very informative you just saw a lot of
footage of me trimming these landscape roses these in particular are David Alston roses because that
is what I have here at the house I am a relatively new rose Gardener this is only my I just completed
my second year being a rose Gardener going into my third by no means am I an expert but I want to
share with you what I have learned growing roses here in North Carolina with the Heat and the
humidity and just take you along share what I know and so hopefully it will help you in your rose
Journey as well before we get started too much into exactly what we did there are two tools that
you definitely need to have when you are going to be a rose Gardener one is a great pair of Clippers
these are felcos these are a number two I believe and if you're interested you can
check out our video description and there is a coupon code there that you can go to felco's
website and you can order these they are fantastic definitely my favorite pruners so get yourself a
really good pair of hand pruners next this is a relatively new investment for me but my gosh
y'all if you're going to grow roses you need a pair of these These are rose Gauntlet gloves
um they are basically Thorns cannot get into them because they are a nice leather it is
very soft and very Supple I got these at the end of the growing season last year and only
had a chance to use them a couple of times I got them from Gardener Supply they're roughly about
a little bit over forty dollars they are amazing um I actually had a thorn sticking in one of the
gloves could not even feel it it's leather this really soft it's not restrictive and so you can
easily move but if you're gonna grow roses you're going to have to prune roses you're gonna have to
be in there with your roses and every rose has its thorn so you're gonna have to be able to protect
yourself like today even though it's the beginning of January it's in the upper 60s and not in you
know a t-shirt I want to protect my skin so I wouldn't get just torn up fantastic so highly
recommend that you get a pair of those gloves if you are going to be like I said growing roses
now the thing about roses is that your roses repeat bloomers Bloom on new growth
and I was doing a little bit of research just about every rose is going to bloom on
New Growth with really the exception of like your old-fashioned climbing roses or heirloom climbing
roses so if you're in doubt just use Professor Google and say when do I prune and then put in
the name of your rose and it will tell you when to prune it the Again David Alston love their website
love their social media because they give you really great Hands-On tips of how to take care of
your roses North Carolina we are in the Southeast portion of the United States so whenever you order
um bare roots from David Alston I'm sure the the Potted ones as well mine are all bare roots
they give you a little planting guide and in there it breaks it down by our region and tells you what
to do well we're in January and January is the time to prune these roses all of the Roses here
except for this one are all what they call one year roses that means they have just been in
the garden for one growing season this Rose is a two-year Rose if you remember if you're
a follower of Creekside I had them this one planted at the patio last year I think you
can visibly see the difference between this Rose and these other two all of these are the
same type of Rose these are rhubarb dolls I have them planted in a group of three I did
it according to David Austin's website because I want these to grow as one massive rose bush
there is gonna be a little bit of difference in how you prune from year one to year two not
a whole lot because in one year year one and year two your roots are really still getting
established you're going to take your rows down to about 12 to 18 inches tall you're going to remove
any dead dying diseased damaged stems all your foliage needs to come off you want your roses to
be naked right no foliage on them whatsoever because they bloom on New Growth by pruning
them back as soon as we get some consistent warm weather which really for us will be like
even first of March I will start to see new buds New Growth pop out as far as my my leaf
buds so they will pop out and they bloom on New Growth we're going to have Gorgeous Flowers
um so you take away those stems take away all your foliage if something's dead you just snip it
all the way back until you find some really nice healthy stems in there and then that's basically
this is it so I have three groups of three so this is rhubarb doll then we have Susan Williams Ellis
which is a beautiful lovely white flower but you can tell that the Susan Williams Ellis the Ruah
doll is very different right so it has really deep deep purple reddish almost black stems with tons
of thorns on it grows completely different and it is taller than my other two roses on each side
but the method of how you prune it is the exact same you just take it all the way back 12 to
18 inches and really it's what I love about the David Alston website is that they they are very
um like-minded in how they give advice for gardening and that they even they don't say it
specifically you can tell that they understand that there's a lot of Grace and gardening and
they have taken away the fear from me personally as a rose Gardener because they're like as long
just prune it back you don't have to be specific there's not a ton of you know research that says
you have to cut it some people will say you cut the stem straight some people say you cut
it at a slant David Austin says you know what just as long as you're pruning it you are fine
when in doubt cut a little bit more on your rose than leaving too much
David Alston again I know I keep quoting it but this is where I'm learning my information from and
I'm like well they're The Growers and the Breeders they would know the most information right that
you can't prune a Rose too hard basically right so it's better to over prune than not
than to under prune so we have Susan at Williams Ellis and then right here we have the poet's wife
and it's interesting because all three of these roses like you can see that the poet's wife here
seems to have more of an open kind of a wide I think that's all I can think of it's wide open
habit on it whereas the Susan Williams Ellis is definitely more straight up and upright
but by planting them this way we're going to have them intertwined and it's going to look
like one giant Rose so really exciting you want to make sure you can see that for the most part
I don't have a ton of leaves underneath my roses because with us being in North Carolina we have
the Heat and the humidity black spot is a very real common issue with roses even if they're
like really disease resistant it can still be a big issue especially at the end of the summer I
can do great up until August and then it's like oh my gosh where did you come from so if you have any
black spot the year before that's why we're taking off all that foliage and then you're cleaning up
underneath your roses as much as possible I know some of y'all just get all out of whack
when you see me pull my leaves out of my flower bed but these roses just because of their habit
there was tons of leaves up in here I blew them away and guess what I found underneath big huge
massive slugs I was able to grab a picture of one I'll throw it up there for you um just ginormous
slugs that's not good for your garden and I'm not going to have any birds coming down in the
middle of my roses scratching in the leaves and eating those slugs I want those out plus because
if the leaves have black spot on them then that they're just going to sit here and that's going to
get reintroduced into to the soil for this coming growing season I want those things out of here so
nice and neat and tidy as far as the Roses go I know they're sticks but it's still neat and tidy
for me while we're here I wanted to give you a little bit of an update if you missed it we've
had when that tropical not tropical the Arctic Storm Elliott came through right before Christmas
we had some damage and I think you can see probably because of my Azaleas and my tea olives
they are brown um we had got down to like seven degrees but the the real kicker was the wind but
kind of wind we're having right now except it was extremely cold massive wind gusts that lasted for
24 hours probably so you can see that my azaleas have just desiccation is the word they are just
burnt they are fried they're chapped and the plant is not dead I hope I didn't lose my blooms for the
spring season time will tell but they will be okay my tea olives they got burnt as well so my leaves
are some of them are brown I'm not again worried about it because I will prune these in late spring
and they will be fine they just don't look so good right now the rest of the bed if you will remember
we have Salvia in here and guara we will see if Brenna decided she wanted to be a um model for
you right there I say the plant she goes and sits in the middle of it um we will see how these fared
with that seven degree if they come back that's fine we are going to move them out of here because
we did this video I did a video earlier and the southeast just got way too big too close to the
Roses so whether they live or they die they're coming out if they die then it's it saves me
some work honestly but they're going to come out I need this room for my roses to grow and I think
I'm gonna go ahead and take my guara out as well because the guara was really tall and wispy which
it was stunning it was gorgeous but I just didn't think the whole thing through with how big it was
going to be compared to my roses and I want things low here we will handle that come springtime
we'll see what the Salvia does what the guara does and we'll go from there but when we were in here
trimming this Salvia um if you will remember we planted some junkles and I know a couple of you
have talked about that you have seen your jonquils starting to come up well guess what so are mine so
I have some see those little green tips right here those are the little bulbs starting to
come up so they're in here periodically and some people were really freaked out like what do I do
but if I do you do nothing you leave them alone they are bulbs it's a plant they understand if
they come up and they get fried they'll come back up again it is fine now this bed now that
I've got the Roses pruned I am going to come back in here and do a small top dress of our
compost pine bark mixture and so that will help insulate it a little bit more and kind of slow
them down a little bit but if yours are popping up like I have snow drops that are blooming that
were planted last year this time last year it is what it is people just enjoy them they'll be fine
now we also pruned our Pinnacle hydrangeas I have um three panicles right here on the back side of
the fountain just to kind of give you a whole perspective of where everything is so the roses
are directly in front of me my three panicles and then of course the patio Jerry's getting ready to
seal the patio so if you're wondering why you have our furniture is all piled up that's why
um but panicle hydrangeas I have these two on each end this is little lime punch little line
punch was just gorgeous this year that's all I can say it was absolutely stunning massive huge
iridescent they like glowed in the late afternoon creamy white beautiful blooms they did turn a hint
of pink but when the heat of the summer came they did turn brown for me they were not that gorgeous
red that the punch is known for this year with my panicles I'm going to do a little bit of an
experiment and probably late July I'm going to come through and I'm going to snip some of my
blooms so that will encourage New Growth hopefully I'll definitely have a time to get new flush and
hopefully they will turn pink so little line punches and then here we have puffer fish puffer
fish has only been in the ground since this fall and you can see that I just came through and gave
it a little trim did not do any major Cuts you can see where it was cut last year when it came when
it was at Spring Meadow this is where they pruned it I came above and just took the tips off of it
not a big severe prune at all with your Panic on hydrangeas you want to take them back by no
more than one-third to one-fourth they bloom on New Growth so when you trim them no matter how
severe or how not severe how small they're going to flush out New Growth so I pruned
puffer fish and little lime punch in the same way trim the Mac so that encourages all that
beautiful new growth which means new flowers for me so that is very exciting very easy I'm glad to
have this portion of the flower bed neat and tidy Jerry and I if you remember just a couple of days
well maybe it was yesterday um we've got junkles all in here so it is going to be a gorgeous spring
I do this trimming my hydrangeas and my roses in stages because I do have a good number of
roses and hydrangeas if I set them and prune all my roses today then that would be a really big
job so I'm going to take it step by step Brynn is excited about something um so I'm going to take it
step by step section by section and get it pruned so like right over here um if you can see the the
rose Arch it is in it too will need to be pruned but I am going to do that another day it will be a
job unto itself to prune this this is the generous Gardener there's two one on each side and so we
will prune this on a separate day as with my um Limelight Prime hydrangeas so lots going on here
it's no wonder I forgot to turn on my mic because you know
it's just a it's just a wonderful wild mess around here so hopefully you were able to
learn a little bit of something in all of this great craziness today um it has been it's been
a fun day it's been a gorgeous day it's been nice and warm I love it t-shirt in January it
is a fantastic and so before anything else crazy happens we're gonna say goodbye we'll see y'all
in the next video as always thanks so much for going with Creekside see you next time bye friends