Can I pinch back white lilies and roses to increase flowers?
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Comments (15)Perry's Water Gardens created a "Fire Opal", which I think is intensely pink. I'm really surprised that this other company used the same name. The color on the box it was in had a pic of a purple lily and in the description it said "Color:purple" I tried to call the company, but it wasn't listed. I did call a company in Wisconsin who had the exact looking box online and she said it wasn't there's. I've noticed this year that the stores no longer have the "purple" one. It was a total rip-off. It was much pinker last year. This year, it started out pale pink, and now is putting out some pale pink ones and also white ones. I counted 11 blossoms yesterday. Isn't it funny how the less-desirable things tend to be more prolific? garyfla "robust white" hahaha Maybe I should just wear purple-colored glasses when I look at it. :)...See MorePinch off buds on new rose + OLG question?
Comments (4)Many rosarians insist that pinching for the first buds leads to bigger ones in the next flush. I have never pinched anything off. I guess I just have wanted to see them bloom, and you can't do that if you have pinched them out. I, frankly, could see no differences in bud sizes whether they were pinched out or not. I would say the choice is yours whether to pinch out or not....See MoreDo i need to prune or cut back knock-out roses?
Comments (7)The advice you read in rose books to prune back roses to encourage growth is more relevant for hybrid teas to encourage show-type blooms and not at all necessary even for them. You can prune any rose to try to encourage it to grow into a pleasing symmetrical shape once it gets big enough, and certainly deadheading (cutting or pinching off dead blooms behind the flowers) or a periodic haircut of the outermost couple of inches of branches (if you're lazy like me) can jumpstart a rose into increasing or continuing the blooms, but it's totally not necessary. In our cold zones, some people don't realize that Knockouts can lose branches to winterkill as much as any other rose, so you have to prune out the dead wood or they look unsightly pretty quickly. I spring prune all 75 Knockouts at my church every year now after they posted a pitiful note a few years ago that their "no care" roses looked awful. All they needed was the dead wood taken out, but that is all they need yearly and they bloom more or less all season, though you can see the dead blooms after a while and they slow down as they have more dead than live blooms. I'm just not willing to commit to deadheading or edge trimming all season for that many roses not in my own yard, and they do fine. Bottom line is I'd let them grow and do their own thing, particularly in zone 7, unless you enjoy the puttering about with roses. Cynthia...See Moretammymcl
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