Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside I am going to prune my climbing rose if you
are new to gardening with Creekside we have this gorgeous climbing rose this is the generous
Gardener by David Austin Roses and it is climbing over the arch that kind of leads from our
driveway into our back patio we are entering into year number three with a generous Gardener
and I have not been disappointed by this Rose in the least bit it has been a fantastic grower
gives me absolutely stunning gorgeous soft pink blooms last year it was unbelievable
the first year it had good growth it had some good beautiful flowers on it so I was able
to see what it was going to look like but last year it just put on an absolutely spectacular
display for us and I could not have been happier with it I do actually have two of the Roses
each um on each side of the arch there is one planted in the ground now this is a very
um very happy rose that grows really well and so maybe if I were more patient I could
have just done one rose on a side and it I think it definitely would reach over and but
I am not a very patient Gardener sometimes especially with roses I want to see the full
flower power so I have got a lot of pruning to do on this Sweet Rose if you do one thing
for your roses pruning is absolutely imperative the vast majority of all repeat blooming roses
will Bloom on New Growth the exceptions really are your old-fashioned or your heirloom climbing
roses this does not fall into that category it most definitely blooms on New Growth and
so I need to give it a nice prune it is from David Alston and I am a huge fan of David
Alston not only because of their plants and their genetics in their plants and how they
breed them but for their education pieces if you will check out their website their
social media they have a wonderful tutorials videos step-by-step instructions illustrations
you name it they have it on how to care for your rose from the moment you get it till
when it is a mature Rose so I highly recommend that you check those out even if you don't
have a David Alston maybe you have some other kind of another brand name you know plant
brand but it is that repeat flowering the characteristics and how you treat it are going
to be the same so to do this job I only need a handful of tools one I've got my ladder
right over here because Jenny's short little self will not be able to get up to the top
so I've got my ladder for the the taller pieces and I need to get to I talked about this in
a video just the other day when I pruned my landscape roses right behind this one these
are some amazing fantastic these are rose Gauntlet gloves I got them from Gardener Supply
Company I am sure you can get them from tons of different places that's just where I chose
to order mine they are very all leather very nice and soft very Supple they are not stiff
I can easily move around on them but they protect not only my hands because I'm a huge
glove wearer but when you're dealing with roses roses have thorns some have bigger and
fewer and some have a ton of them this has about an average amount of thorns but you
need to protect your hands and your arms and so that's what is so great about these Rose
Gauntlet gloves is it does protect it then of course you're going to need some really
good Clippers these are felcos this is what I use these are number two that's what fits
my hand so if you're in the market for some good Clippers I recommend that you get felcos
they are wonderful we have a 10 coupon discount code if you will look at our video description
there is a coupon code you can use to get 10 off your total order this is what I'm going
to be using to prune my rose then because this is a climbing rose it is um does have
some twine kind of holding it up there that I put throughout the growing season I'm going
to take that off as I prune it and then as I prune it I will need to reattach some of
um of those stems to the arbor what I have on there is a really soft rubber twine I guess
is the best way to describe it but it is a soft I got too many things in my hand I need
to get rid of some stuff it is a really soft black stretchy cord so if you can see this
and it stretches it is hollow so it can kind of give way and give grace to the Rose as
it needs it so it's not going to strangle the rose which is very important so I have
those that I have used for a long time fantastic now new that I've just purchased so I have
not used these so I can't speak specifically on how well they work but I'm very excited
about them because throughout the growing season you're going to have limbs that come
off that need to be tucked in well so I went to the zone and was looking for some different
Road like supports for roses and I came across these little guys and these are clips that
you just pinch and so you can hook the rows and then attach it either to another stem
or to the um the arbor itself so so it comes in two different sizes it was a multi-pack
so we have a smaller one and then I think this is a one inch one and so excited about
that so we have those we need to try out today or another day and then this is really neat
too so this is made by Velcro so instead of a twine that you actually have to tie this
is Velcro so it's a nice very soft it is not prickly so it's not going to hurt the rose
very soft and so we can take it and then you know attach it like that so there you go so
we have those two new additions that we are going to try out if we need them today if
not if I don't need them today then I know that I will use them as the growing season
gets going so my girls are getting ready to go to the grocery store for me so if you hear
a car in commotion they're going to the grocery store mamas of Littles just hang on it does
all that hard work you're putting in it pays off because one day they'll be old enough
to drive and they can go run errands for you and oh my goodness that just opens up a whole
new world in a whole bunch of different ways all right so we're going to move the camera
around I'm going to show you basically how we're going to tackle pruning this generous
Gardener climbing rose before we get too far into the actual pruning of the Rose I just
want to say that I am not a very experienced Rose Gardener this is I am entering the third
year of my gardening at Rose gardening career just like the generous Gardener we started
this journey together but I will just say that because I was late getting into doing
roses because I was really intimidated I thought that they were very going to be really fussy
I just didn't have the time to do them too much maintenance I didn't know what I was
doing I was honestly a little scared to get into roses but after seeing all the gorgeous
pictures of course out there and then really looking at the David Alston website all their
information they really kind of took the fear of Rose gardening away because they empowered
me with all of that information this is so in my opinion I could be totally wrong on
this I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am but from my experience what I have found
the um really the only bad way to prune a Rose is if you don't prune it so even if it's
intimidating and I am sure I am not going to do this perfect I if I if the head Gardener
from David Austin came and pruned this Rose it would probably be different than how I'm
going to do it or how I have done it so by no means is this like the perfect way to do
it I just want to take the fear out and give you a little bit of knowledge and experience
of what I have found in my two years of Rose gardening the main thing we want to do is
you're looking for any damaged diseased dead stems in here those automatically are going
to come out right so if you see something that is dead you want to take it out so I
see one right here well how do you know if something if a stem is dead it may sound silly
and kind of obvious but if it's this is where this is where roses get interesting because
they're covered in Thorns um if it's dead it is going to be brown if it is alive and
healthy it is a nice beautiful green so right here I could see that this stem is obviously
dead it is totally Brown when I cut it down here at the bottom it is brown if it's nice
and beautiful and green it is alive so anything dead automatically going to come out you go
all the way down to where you hit green and you're going to cut the brown out we want
to take all of the thin limbs back we want to keep our main stems that's what we're looking
at is our main stems and then when we have that main stem and we have the little side
stems coming off of that we're going to cut them back to about there's only about two
to three inches of that side stem on there so that's how we're going to do it anything
really thin or weak is going to come out again I'm going to take it all the way back to that
main stem look for it and then cut it out from down there I want all of my foliage to
be off of this Rose when I am done I do not want to have any foliage like this left on
here that has got to come off there were old rose hips all of that is going to come off
we're going to just thin it out and trim it down I did go through and try to remove most
of I still I still see them in there my my ties so that way when I'm cutting and I pull
something it's not still attached so basically we're just going to get in here all the little
thin things are going to come out we're just going to thin this out so that way we have
good air circulation in our rows once it starts I'm flushing out but yeah all right it's still
a little intimidating I'm not gonna lie like this is a big Rose and there's a lot to be
done and um but we're just going to go forward go forward the only bad pruning job is no
pruning job right that's what I'll just keep telling myself
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do go to the top and then go do the other side like I said for me it can be a little
intimidating starting this Rose because it is such a gigantic rose with tons of nice
big healthy stems that are coming out of the ground so trying to figure out you know exactly
who do I cut who do I who do I leave who do I just trim that that kind of thing it can
be a little overwhelming the best advice I can give to you for that is to start with
the obvious start with the ones that are obviously dead start with the ones that obviously are
very small and thin and spindly and just remember you can always start on the conservative side
as you trim because you can always cut off more but once you cut it you can't put it
back also with that with a rose it's really hard to over prune it so there is a Grace
in that fact as well what I will do is I'm going to finish pruning the whole Arbor first
and then I'm going to come back and um kind of tie in attach these main the main branches
that I leave I will go ahead and kind of tack it back onto the arbor so that way once it
starts really flushing out and growing then it'll already be attached and that work will
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friends so the climbing a rose has been pruned she is definitely much skinnier much tidier
looking for sure because there are two different roses right we have one on each side for whatever
reason I don't know I don't know if it's me I don't know if it's the rose but I seem to
be doing a better job on the one that's closest to the forest pansy than the one that is closest
to the hydrangeas it just seems to have a better structure that goes up and I could
find those main stems a little bit easier um but you know what it is what it is and
as soon as it gets all fleshed out everything will be just fine I did go ahead and use some
of the velcro Fasteners you probably can see them they're a little bit of a lighter color
that would be the only downside of using those as opposed to that little rubber back black
twine tubing with the black tubing you didn't see it at all but those definitely were very
easy to use and as soon as this Rose flushes out with growth you're not going to see them
so if that bothers you then I would go for you know the black tubing if it doesn't bother
you it doesn't bother me then just go for that but I'm telling you those gloves are
going to save you because I took it took off the glove to use the velcro because it was
just a very you know you had to get your little fine motor skills going and then one Thorn
got me and just ripped open right the side of my thumb and uh but it looks great very
happy with it especially how I was able to keep it going over nice and clipped and tight
it looks great so the whole gist of this video is if you have roses just get out there and
prune them do your absolute best you want to keep your big thumb strong thick I cannot
talk it's getting to the end of the day your strong thick stems get rid of any of weak
ones if they're the smaller stems just trim them back everything on here got snipped even
if it was a small Branch even if it only got pruned by like a half an inch it still got
pruned so we have lots of new um potential for lots of good growth lots of beautiful
flowers it's going to be a gorgeous spring it will be here before we know it so get out
there and start pruning your roses if you are in a growing zone similar to mine and
you will know that your roses are ready when you start to see those little where the leaves
are they'll start to get you know kind of get swelled up a little bit and you'll be
able to see them time to go ahead and start pruning if you're under snow just take note
you're going to be doing this a couple of weeks probably after we are some depending
on where you are could be four to six weeks behind us but spring will be here before we
know it so get out there enjoy the time and get some work done as always thanks so much
we're going to Creekside y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends