Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and often I'm asked for follow-ups to some of my
videos because what you'll see is you'll see me put up a structure like this to support my roses
but then you'll never see me train a rose onto it or you'll see me take the pruning or a moving of a
shrub but then you won't see the outcome so today i want to catch you up a little bit as much as i
can i'm going to go around the yard and show you some of the things that i've featured in previous
videos with the before during and after shots just so you get an idea of how these things have turned
out this rose is 'Madame Hardy' and I featured it in a video on how to move your plants or transplant
your roses without killing it and this is how it's recovered that video was made last winter so
about a year ago just coming into this spring and now it's put on these beautiful white blooms
i was asked for a follow up on this and what i want to show you is that in that video i promoted
not pruning down your roses heavily i said at that point you can do more harm than good by
additionally pruning your roses but what happens if you
transplant without pruning the top growth is sometimes you'll have a little bit of die back
and that's exactly what you'll come to see right here is that stub
died back subsequent to the moving of the rose in fact there were a number of branches and stems
like that that blackened off or browned off subsequent to pruning and so then i just
pruned those off now i guess you could ask the question why wouldn't you just have pruned it
preemptively and i guess my answer is i like to target the pruning to what needs it you can see
a lot of the other stems came back beautifully a lot of the other stems came back green and
went on to bare blooms and so on so by waiting for it to show me what parts it wants to give up
you're kind of letting the rose declare its intentions it shows you what parts it doesn't
want to support then you can prune off the brown portions and allow the green portions to continue
and quickly before i move on just a close-up view of the bloom here one of my favorites and in fact
one of the favorites of Peter Beales the famous rosarian this white bloom with the green eye in
the center beautifully elegant wonderfully scented Madam Hardy is definitely worth having in the
garden if you can grow it next for a follow-up on a fairly recent pruning video i made a pruning
video on an example of pruning a climber down along a low fence this is 'Rosarium Ueterson' was the example i used in that and if you'll recall
I had to cut it it was shooting upright dramatically in the center i'd cut back some of that center growth from the container which you can barely see in this shot here but trust me there is a container in there somewhere and i had to train it
horizontally along this fence now it is recovering nicely from that you can see it's put on some
beautiful blooms already but that's just the beginning you're going to see a ton of buds coming
up on this and this is going to continue to put on that growth all season long this is by the end of
the season maybe i'll do an additional follow-up you'll see that this will be covered in pink
just a slightly closer view here sometimes those super saturated pinks won't come off well
on film so i don't know how this is going to turn out but i want to show you that there are a ton
of flower buds on here uh just ready to come on so that's exciting and uh just in the background here
that red rose you see i'm going to be training 'Etoile de Hollande' which is a hybrid tee up onto the
pillar that i constructed last year as it puts on a little bit of height a little further
down the fence line here i have 'Buff Beauty' trained exactly the same way along the fence
but the difference between that and what i did with 'Rosarium Uetersen' - it was
a harder prune and this one was a much lighter prune now they're both re-blooming roses so i
suspect that 'Rosarium Uetersen' will catch up a little bit on a second bloom but this is kind of
what you would expect in the difference between blooming or pruning hard and training it down
and giving it a much lighter prune you're going to get a much stronger first bloom on
those roses that you prune a little bit lighter than those ones that you prune very heavily
i just want to show you one more quick bit of follow-up since i happen to be here is this is one
of those perennial beds that i pruned in the video uh that should you prune your your perennials down
in the fall i'll insert how that looked i i brought it hard down to stubble and here's
what it looks like now all recovering from that with some nice astrantia some salvia, agastache on
the far left daylily in the middle so that's back on its way and should be in full bloom this month
another video i made last year explained the reason why i placed all of my stock roses
into these painted tires that i have out in the rose field here and you can see the results now
is that it makes them rather easy to maintain and mow between and keep the
weeds out from the base of the plants and of course wemo with a ride on lawnmower
and follow-up usually with a string trimming step and that helps to protect the base of the rose
it also serves to allow us to put our nutrients and mulch and everything all in a very targeted
location right at the base of the plant so it makes it easy if i have to get some farm help to
come here and fertilize the roses and i say just throw a cup of alfalfa at the base of each plant
it's pretty straightforward instruction if i have that tire there it's starting to come into color
now you can see that the roses definitely are not uh are not resenting the treatment
and here for a more slightly more central view and i'm sorry handheld now so probably a little
bit shake here i'll give you a better look at the overall of the rose field now that's abraham darby
dead center right now putting on a good show at the very back there that orange one is westerland
a climber which i'm keeping maintained as a shrub form for taking cuttings and some of these went in
a little bit sooner and some of them went in a little bit later but there's also a lot of
natural variation between the sizes of the plants and so it will never be completely uniform but
i think as they grow in they will be slightly more uniform than this
last year i also made a video called how low can you go to talk about
a severe pruning on roses and other plants and to see how they would recover these two
major stubs you see in the center of the screen here are where i cut down this rosa rubrifolia
and as you can see just by the surrounding foliage it definitely has recovered from that
let me give you a wider view and here fully leafed out with another year of growth on it you'd barely
be able to tell that this is something that i pruned back aggressively just last year
here for another follow-up i made a video probably a couple years ago
about whether i could save a badly leaning apple tree just by cutting off the main trunk
down low and then letting it regrow from one of its side shoots well that's exactly what's
happened it sent up a side chute straight up and since then what we've tried to decide to do
is allow one branch to go in each direction in four different directions and we pinned them
down with these stakes just to try to train them a little more horizontal and then from there i'll be
taking off some of the branches that are trying to re-establish along the trunk and try to turn
into new leaders i'm just going to keep this low and horizontal and see how that training suits it
i want to bring you back now to a video i did this spring on fast and easy pruning of roses this rose
on the right 'Rose de Rescht' was done in that video and i'm going to insert some photos or video now
of what i did there but it was a pretty brutal and kind of thoughtless pruning like i went at
it fast i took it down quickly without any regard to outward facing buds or any of that fancy stuff
and this is the results that i got a beautifully reblooming rose still a little bit tight with his
neighbors but performing really really nicely in the garden today i'll get you
some close-ups of that but before i do just gonna pan over to the right here
i'll show you that big purple shrub there from a distance of course is a an elderberry
i think it's called thundercloud what a gorgeous presentation in the garden
here are those close-up flowers of 'Rose de Rescht' with lots and lots of buds coming up in the
background as you can see and it has this well i'm going to call it a hard pink color to begin with
and then it blooms out to kind of fades into a move kind of range which is pretty uh common
amongst some of the old garden roses sort of loses that hot pink tone and starts to move towards move
from that same video but just in a different area of the garden you would have seen me prune this
rose it's a 'Distant Drums' and you can see where i left off and also i'll insert some
footage from that video and this is how it's recovered so i took it down probably to about
18 inches and now here it is back up to near four feet in height and i'll get you a closer
look at some of those flowers it's a very unique flora bunda the official color i think they call
it russet because it's sort of in that reddish brownish range of colors and see how closely
that is related to the mauve or silver type roses because that's the tone that it fades out to
so you see the buds there are actually kind of a deep red russet color and then the blooms
as they mature that's the color sort of in the center but the outside edges
of the blooms are more mauve in a fresh bloom that could be really really attractive
and finally i wanted to follow up on a video i made on moving roses with an excavator when they
were just large roses and i had to move them out of kind of desperation because they were
so big with a mini excavator and i can show you the footage of how ugly that process was
it was really really rough on the roses and indeed i did see some die back on this one although
it's recovering well i did that for both this one and for this one in fact all the roses along my
fence line right now were moved there by that mini excavator it hasn't left its mark on the ground
happily but some of them recover much more quickly than others i'll get you a close-up of this one
which is 'Leda' which has gorgeous flowers which has come back from it quite nicely this one here had
its die back and so now what i'll do now that's done with this bloom period is now i can cut it
down a lot lower and let it refresh from the base that's exactly what i'll be doing because i don't
intend to put up with that kind of gangly every direction kind of growth that it has right now
and here's that close-up of 'Leda'. 'Leda' is another damask rose just like 'Madame Hardy' that i showed
at the front end of this video leta also has that wonderful damask fragrance but is characterized
by these kind of cherry candy frosting on the outside of the blooms so it has that similar bloom
form with many many petals packed in and the same kind of matte foliage but just has that gorgeous
gorgeous color on the outside of the blooms and you can see many many blooms to come as well
thanks so much for joining me today for this follow-up from my gardening videos and if you
have any questions about how anything else has turned out or anything from this video
please drop those down into the comments of the video i'll see what i can do to answer thanks