| 20 ft high rose bush 11:03 - Sep 7 with 2472 views | giant_stow |
I think I need to chop it back, but how much and when (pretty please)? |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:12 - Sep 7 with 2215 views | GeoffSentence |
I'm no gardner but do have some rampant rambling roses to keep in check so I will offer my uneducated and possibly wrong advice, based on my experience.
Cut it when after i has finished flowering really, just so you can enjoy the blloms.
Cut it right back to the base, ground level, in my experience you wont be able to kill the fecking thing, it will grow back vigorously and you at least will have a couple of years before you really have to hack it back again.
Like I said, I know feck all about plants and sht, but that's how I handle my barstard roses. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:20 - Sep 7 with 2200 views | giant_stow |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:12 - Sep 7 by GeoffSentence |
I'm no gardner but do have some rampant rambling roses to keep in check so I will offer my uneducated and possibly wrong advice, based on my experience.
Cut it when after i has finished flowering really, just so you can enjoy the blloms.
Cut it right back to the base, ground level, in my experience you wont be able to kill the fecking thing, it will grow back vigorously and you at least will have a couple of years before you really have to hack it back again.
Like I said, I know feck all about plants and sht, but that's how I handle my barstard roses. |
chuckle, that's exactly how I feel about mine! Thanks for advice - not sure I dare go right back to the ground, but I think i have to be savage or the fence that it's wired to will fall down. | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:21 - Sep 7 with 2196 views | sparks |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:20 - Sep 7 by giant_stow |
chuckle, that's exactly how I feel about mine! Thanks for advice - not sure I dare go right back to the ground, but I think i have to be savage or the fence that it's wired to will fall down. |
Roses react well to severe pruning. Its actively recommended. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:27 - Sep 7 with 2182 views | giant_stow |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:21 - Sep 7 by sparks |
Roses react well to severe pruning. Its actively recommended. |
I had no idea - cheers. Right then, the bastad's getting it! | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:36 - Sep 7 with 2168 views | brogansnose |
Madam Brogan insisted that we planted loads of climbing and rambling roses against the house and walls then double backed into getting me to do the damn pruning. There are guidelines as to when its best to prune them but I tend to do them all year round with a major butchering late Winter early spring. Bully is not wrong when he says they respond to harsh pruning when is preferable to leaving them to get old and knarled.
This may help; https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=189
Obviously, and a major rule this, anything that flowers yellow against green leaves should be ripped from the ground and burnt !!! |  | | |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:58 - Sep 7 with 2143 views | wkj |
Like hazel, you want to keep it in check, as others have said, roses are robust when pruned. You should be fine you sling the unwanted cuttings into the blown bin, it seems No wood is allowed in there, but cuttings are |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:00 - Sep 7 with 2138 views | jeera |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:58 - Sep 7 by wkj |
Like hazel, you want to keep it in check, as others have said, roses are robust when pruned. You should be fine you sling the unwanted cuttings into the blown bin, it seems No wood is allowed in there, but cuttings are |
There are hazel plants here but apart from several buds, no actual nuts.
How does one encourage some actual bloody harvest from those things?
Please. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:02 - Sep 7 with 2131 views | wkj |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:00 - Sep 7 by jeera |
There are hazel plants here but apart from several buds, no actual nuts.
How does one encourage some actual bloody harvest from those things?
Please. |
I have an issue with no nuts too, I haven't managed to cultivate them on my tree either | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:04 - Sep 7 with 2125 views | footers |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:02 - Sep 7 by wkj |
I have an issue with no nuts too, I haven't managed to cultivate them on my tree either |
Try a few bags of salted KP, then go out in the garden for an EMP. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:07 - Sep 7 with 2122 views | jeera |
Just spoke to my neighbour, who is an avid gardener, and he was asking things like, how old the plant is, how does the growth spread, and other such pertinent stuff.
I said I didn't know and he looked at me like a fool. So thanks for that.
Generally speaking then, he said, being that damn big, you can afford to lose a good 15ft.
Sounds about right dunnit. | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:07 - Sep 7 with 2114 views | wkj |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:07 - Sep 7 by jeera |
Just spoke to my neighbour, who is an avid gardener, and he was asking things like, how old the plant is, how does the growth spread, and other such pertinent stuff.
I said I didn't know and he looked at me like a fool. So thanks for that.
Generally speaking then, he said, being that damn big, you can afford to lose a good 15ft.
Sounds about right dunnit. |
Cut the tree down and count the rings, then get back to him | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:08 - Sep 7 with 2112 views | jeera |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:04 - Sep 7 by footers |
Try a few bags of salted KP, then go out in the garden for an EMP. |
What is an EMP?
And when did people stop using actual words? | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:10 - Sep 7 with 2109 views | wkj |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:08 - Sep 7 by jeera |
What is an EMP?
And when did people stop using actual words? |
EMP. MMP, MAP ... all related to ablutions and certain times of the day | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:10 - Sep 7 with 2108 views | footers |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:08 - Sep 7 by jeera |
What is an EMP?
And when did people stop using actual words? |
Early Morning Poo.
Don't worry, me old fruit, it's just a wkj thing. He's an obsessive coprophile, quite difficult to keep up with his scatalogical ramblings at time! | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:11 - Sep 7 with 2103 views | factual_blue |
There are at least three euphemisms in your question. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:11 - Sep 7 with 2102 views | wkj |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:10 - Sep 7 by footers |
Early Morning Poo.
Don't worry, me old fruit, it's just a wkj thing. He's an obsessive coprophile, quite difficult to keep up with his scatalogical ramblings at time! |
I wasnt the actual daddy of the MMP, I believe it was that fella with professor "good news everyone" as his avatar what did buh, that uefa fella | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:15 - Sep 7 with 2096 views | jeera |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:10 - Sep 7 by footers |
Early Morning Poo.
Don't worry, me old fruit, it's just a wkj thing. He's an obsessive coprophile, quite difficult to keep up with his scatalogical ramblings at time! |
I think in some circumstances an initialism is more appropriate. | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:28 - Sep 7 with 2080 views | wkj |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:15 - Sep 7 by jeera |
I think in some circumstances an initialism is more appropriate. |
People think that the LBF, that is the Lefty Bumfest (founded by Benters as it happens) talk in code with hidden in jokes scattered everywhere, when actually it is just me that does that as Footers and Spruce are a bit too thick to pull it off. In most cases it is our modus operandi to use respectful code to shield the sensitivities of our fellow man, woman or Dolly. | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:31 - Sep 7 with 2071 views | jeera |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:07 - Sep 7 by wkj |
Cut the tree down and count the rings, then get back to him |
I suppose Ulla uses a duodecimal system of sorts so hopefully the plant is along the lines of 6, 12, or even 18 years old. | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:46 - Sep 7 with 2054 views | solemio |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:36 - Sep 7 by brogansnose |
Madam Brogan insisted that we planted loads of climbing and rambling roses against the house and walls then double backed into getting me to do the damn pruning. There are guidelines as to when its best to prune them but I tend to do them all year round with a major butchering late Winter early spring. Bully is not wrong when he says they respond to harsh pruning when is preferable to leaving them to get old and knarled.
This may help; https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=189
Obviously, and a major rule this, anything that flowers yellow against green leaves should be ripped from the ground and burnt !!! |
You let a bunch of budgies dictate to you what you grow in your garden?
They're beating you.
Peace. (It's a famous yellowish rose) |  | | |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:12 - Sep 7 with 2034 views | giant_stow |
Went for a little nap and came back to tons of good advice - thanks all!! | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:21 - Sep 7 with 2009 views | Ryorry |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:00 - Sep 7 by jeera |
There are hazel plants here but apart from several buds, no actual nuts.
How does one encourage some actual bloody harvest from those things?
Please. |
You need to get it a mate to have sex with :)
Seriously, they need to cross-pollinate with another tree like them (but not exactly the same variety is best, so, eg I have a Filbert Cosford which is buddied up with a Kent Cob). Planted them about 25 feet apart for max effect, but I think 15-40 feet apart may be OK. They can either be kept down to large shrub size by pruning, or allowed to grow to their max. |  |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:23 - Sep 7 with 2005 views | Ryorry |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 11:36 - Sep 7 by brogansnose |
Madam Brogan insisted that we planted loads of climbing and rambling roses against the house and walls then double backed into getting me to do the damn pruning. There are guidelines as to when its best to prune them but I tend to do them all year round with a major butchering late Winter early spring. Bully is not wrong when he says they respond to harsh pruning when is preferable to leaving them to get old and knarled.
This may help; https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=189
Obviously, and a major rule this, anything that flowers yellow against green leaves should be ripped from the ground and burnt !!! |
I too have this eternal moral dilemma, but simply cannot bring myself to give my gloriously scented yellow honeysuckle the chop :( Is there a helpline anywhere for this problem does anyone know? | |
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| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:27 - Sep 7 with 1994 views | brogansnose |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:23 - Sep 7 by Ryorry |
I too have this eternal moral dilemma, but simply cannot bring myself to give my gloriously scented yellow honeysuckle the chop :( Is there a helpline anywhere for this problem does anyone know? |
If I'm honest , we've got a Graham Thomas shrub rose which is absolutely lovely and has a wonderful fragrance. It does well probably because I give it a more viscious hacking than the others. | | | |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 13:32 - Sep 7 with 1982 views | WeWereZombies |
| 20 ft high rose bush on 12:10 - Sep 7 by wkj |
EMP. MMP, MAP ... all related to ablutions and certain times of the day |
Is an MAP mid afternoon or morning after? Great deal of difference in the approach needed and the effect on one's system... |  |
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