Question about training a New Dawn climbers...w/pics!
subk3
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Comments (4)I have new dawn and itgre to a whopping 20 feet tall and about the same wide up our gazzibo in two years. it is two stories tall. what a beautiful rose. too bad it only blooms once for me... For those climbers unless you want to train them to grow a certain shape or keep them from just growing all over your fence, just cut back dead wood. I pull all the old leaves and blooms from all my roses. I may be sorry for that with my moss roses, but nothing died and all is looking full with leaves sept. my mosses but I think they like my apothicary are late starters. clean out around the base and fertilize with with something like pansy popper or mum pooper , something for lots of blooms second number big! 17-30-15 you will get lots of roses Here is a link that might be useful: my roses...See MoreNewbie question regarding Climbing Blaze & New Dawn
Comments (11)there is a chance she will but a chance she will not climb. Usually if a climber is cut back seriously in a season 2-3 times, it discourages it from climbing. It is similar to weeds that you continue removing. At some point, they get the idea that they are not supposed to grow there. Well, if you continue cutting back a climber (sometimes only once is the key) it will get the idea, it is not to climb. But, I have many climbers that I now grow as rose bushes because I cut them back as soon as they threw long canes. I don't have room for 60 climbers, but I have room for about that many big bush roses. I do wish Jon of Wessex, England, would post here about the key to growing climbers as bushes. I had known this from a brother-in-law but he gave a very good reason as to why that is. I do wish I had saved it. My BIL grew many climbers and he had told me before he died how to keep them as bushes or to move them and continue to grow them as climbers by leaving 3 long canes on the move and cut the rest of the bush back by a third....See MoreQuestions about training roses to wire
Comments (7)Rather than wire or (shudder) green plastic tape, I use Gardman Chainlock. Jeri turned me on to it when I saw the climbers tied with it at the Stagecoach Inn pruning demo. Infinitely adjustable in seconds and infinitely reusable. Also makes a great reusable wrap around bushes when transplanting. Unlike green tape and wire, you can store small pieces neatly in a canister of some sort, no straightening required. I hang longer pieces on a hook. I don't think the price is bad ($21 for 100') when you consider the adjustability and reusability compared to green tape or wire. As you say, wire goes away and plastic gets brittle so reuse is limited. Plus, it won't cut into the canes like wire can, at least under normal stresses, not 100 year storms ;-) I won't go back! Here is a link that might be useful: Gardman C247 1/2-Inch X 100-Foot Chainlock...See MoreDawn Redwood "Gold Rush" leader questions..*pics*
Comments (43)Yeah, here is a better pic. The "leader" (no. 1) is attached to the old leader, the one that got cut back last year in the original post. But from there, the new leader kind of branches out again (no 2.)...not really sure if that's what leaders do, or if I should trim one of those or what. Also, I drew in red lines on cuts that I'll probably make on it as suggested by you Ken?...See MoreMaryDanielle
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