Growing Climbing Roses
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For the very best growth give your roses full sun and good air circulation.
Grow climbing roses on a free standing trellis or open fence.
Bright sunlight reflected off a wall can cook your roses. Always keep roses
several inches away from a wall.
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Tie as you go. When a climbing rose cane reaches a length where it needs
support, tie it up loosely, bending it in a horizontal direction. This
bending will cause many more flowering shoots to sprout, which will mean
many more flowers.
Climbing roses considered "pillar type" bloom nicely when
canes are grown up a post or pillar.
Always tie loosely to avoid binding and constricting the tissue.
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To encourage a climbing rose to continue blooming throughout the
growing season, cut off any spent (dead) flowers
as soon as they begin to fade.
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Cut back to a leaf in whose axil is a good live bud. Pull down gently on
a leaf and see if bud is visible. Make the cut just above that leaf (see
diagram). Don't worry about whether it is an outward or inward facing bud.
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Pruning Climbing Roses
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Climbing Roses should never be pruned in the same manner as a bush rose.
Climbing rose canes need to stay long! Climbers can be somewhat of an ugly
duckling, growing slowly the first year with just a light blooming, but
gradually gaining in expanse and becoming a wall of blooms.
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Each year in January you will need to prune the flowering shoots that
appear along the canes on your climbing rose. Cut back leaving 2 to 3
leaf buds on each shoot.
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A. Dead wood
B. Lateral growth (flowering shoots)
C. Spindly growth
D. Unproductive cane
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Once your climbing rose is 4 to 5 years old, you may need to do the following
additional pruning each January:
Cut out any canes that are dead, diseased, spindly and unproductive. Make
cuts all the way down to where growth originates.
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After your rose is 3 to 4 years old a second pruning can
be done in the spring just after the new growth appears.
Prune the end of each stem by cutting below two or three
leaves, leaving 3 to 4 buds to promote more vigorous flowering.
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