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 floor abundant but if I wonder 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. Now
climbing roses need a different pruning technique and you usually prune these at
the end of summer or into autumn when they finish flowering you don't tend to
do this in the winter because you want them to send up new buds ready for next
year now this example behind me I prune at the end of summer and as you can see
here there is one main arching stem so I've taken off all the other side shoots
with the exception of a few or the strong stems but mainly you're looking
for one strong support and you're gonna take it back if you have a look here and
I'll do a close-up there are some buds here that I've started to take already
so you've got one strong support and then you can tie in all these laterals
as they grow what you don't want is pop four or five of those going everywhere
because all the energy is going to be wasted on growth and what you want is
the energy to be focused and sisters and flowers
so once you finish your pruning make sure they give you roses and really good
feed whether it be compost or manure because they're really hungry flowers and
what you'll notice in the spring where you've pruned the rose those buds that
facing outwards will start to send out growth and that's what you're gonna get
your flowers! Don't worry if they look a bit awkward and
ugly at the moment they're bound to because we're renovating them
so it's probably going to take a few years but by doing it bit by bit you
still got the flowers without all the desecration of a hard prune.
So lots of people find themselves inheriting roses when they leave house
and they don't know what to do with them and sometimes you may even move into a
garden and not have a clue what kind of roses is but please don't be tempted
just to pull it up and put up there instead with a small amount of pruning
and a little bit of patience you'll be amazed how beautiful roses can be in the
garden and even if they're in a really bad tattoo shape this guy's going to
show you exactly how you can nip and tuck them back into the beautiful forms
that they are so there we have it my super easy way to pruning roses even if
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