Plant Care

All the plants you have in your garden and also inside the house, should be cared for correctly. This will ensure you get the best displays and long-life from them.

Pruning

Pruning a rambling rose

Rambling roses are similar to climbing roses, but they have a less erect, upright habit and are prone to sprawling. When pruning, bear in mind that rambling roses usually flower on the previous year's growth.

Pruning a rambling rose varies depending on how it is to be trained. You can let plants to ramble without pruning them at all. But to produce more flowers and reduce the chance of disease it is necessary to prune once a year.

- Immediately after flowering, cut out most of the older wood that has flowered in previous years close to ground level.-

- If there is not much older wood, remove about one in three of the older stems.

- Remove any dead, dying or diseased wood.

- Tie in the new growth to enable it to flower next year.

- If the shoots are not long enough to tie in immediately after flowering, tie them in as they grow in late summer or early autumn.

- Prune back the tips of new shoots to encourage flowering the following year.

- Shorten the sideshoots by about a third and tie them in.