Return to the Roses in Oz Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
Pruning Clg. Duchess de Brabant
| | |
Posted by Lachlan Vic. Aust (My Page) on Mon, Jan 24, 05 at 8:57
I have this lovely rose growing over an arch and have tied her long canes up and over the frame. She mainly produces her blooms in spring. I deadhead these and then through summer the rose sends up new growth from the main canes that are tied in. These new shoots don't bloom at all.
Can someone please advise I what I should do with this new growth in winter and how should I treat the shoots that bloomed during the Spring?
I have been giving it a trim all over in winter, but I must be doing something wrong as in the last two seasons the spring flush is getting less and less. |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Pruning Clg. Duchess de Brabant
| | |
- Posted by lozza Vic. Oz. (My Page) on
Mon, Jan 24, 05 at 21:32
| Problem is Lachlan, that the arch is probably to small for the plant. Climbing roses are huge, and if not grown on a large pergola, should be on a fenceline. See the thread "What climbing roses flower best" or somesuch. |
RE: Pruning Clg. Duchess de Brabant
| | |
| Thanks Lozza for your reply. Quite a sobering thought that I may be containing her too much. |
RE: Pruning Clg. Duchess de Brabant
| | |
| Duchesse de Brabant is a Tea rose (1857) and should repeat. Grahem Stuart Thomas says Tea roses should be allowed to grow up slowly with light pruning. I am very interested in John Scaraman's pruning instructions which he says is the French method followed at Roserie de l'Hay-les-Roses and Bagatelle: just before the new buds break, prune away any growths that do not have blooms on them, then after the main flush is over,very late summer, do your summer prune by taking out the 'fishing rods' that grow up. While he uses this method for ramblers etc on arches, it also works for me with Mme Gregoire Stachelin. It is worth trying. But don't be too brutal! |
RE: Pruning Clg. Duchess de Brabant
| | |
| I have this same rose, BUT I have it growing over a tall fence, it would have to be around 10-12 feet tall to around 12 feet wide, not a rose for an archway, needs plenty of room, I have never pruned mine, Very healthy rose, no blackspot or disease, great for hot humid climates. |
|
|
|
|
