Can you train climbing roses to grow horizontally?
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Can my old untrained climbing rose be trained?
Comments (2)The good thing about roses is that they are always putting out new canes and you can train them easier than old ones. This is true! Back when I was a teenager, in the 1970's, I inherited a 1950's book on growing roses (can't presently remember the authors' names, but they were serious rosarians). In that book there were three photos of a Harrison's Yellow rose (a beautiful early spring, once-blooming yellow shrub rose) they rehabilitated. In the first picture it is a sprawling mess that has few flowers. In the second picture they tied all the main canes together and pegged them low to the ground, away from the crown of the bush, and consequently a whole new set of primary canes were shooting vertically from the bases of those old canes. In the third picture the old canes were gone and the new canes were blooming like crazy. It was obvious they had completely rejuvenated the bush by the simple technique of tying the old canes collectively to the ground and consequently stimulating the shrub to put out an entirely new set of major canes for them to work with. The nice thing about a big rose is that as long as the growing conditions are to its liking you absolutely can rehabilitate it. Doing so requires a certain amount of sensitivity and expertise, but that can be learned....See MoreI need to train my climbing Graham Thomas roses to a Horizontal Fence
Comments (7)Not clothes pins, ever. Graham Thomas has canes that canker easily and keeping a year or two year old cane in close contact with a fence would be a place that water would accumulate next to where there was damage to the cane from wind moving it against the fence. A gentle use of jute string loosely around the canes/stems and then a second knot holding it to the fence. You are in a zone where winter won't kill the canes back?...See MoreDoes first year climbing rose need to be trained?
Comments (5)sb-----ny, On a narrow, fan type trellis, horizontal canes are not needed. Minimal manhandling will be needed to get canes in place in your case. Probably 3 strong canes are all you need. Two will grow on the trellis's extreme edges, and one up the middle. You may have to fight your grafted Eden to keep it growing in such a confined space. Those fan trellis are often quickly overgrown by most climbers. My earlier response was made regarding growing a climber on a wide, horizontal fencelike support, hence the need to bend canes horizontally. There's no need for such gymnastics on a relatively small, vertical fan trellis. Moses...See MoreTraining climbing rose?
Comments (4)Hi edanz, The new canes that are sprouting off of the old, pruned-back canes (whether those old canes are 3 inches or 3 feet) should become your new main canes. Let them grow long, and don't prune them at the ends. These canes should grow long. You can gently train these canes to do what you want, but be careful not to bend them sharply or tie them too tightly. As you train the canes in a more horizontal fashion, the laterals will sprout along the sides of the canes. It is possible for a cane that started as a lateral to become a main cane. Not all of a climber's main canes need to be from basals (those canes that sprout from the base of the rose) but basal canes are good because they renew the structure of the rose, providing fresh, strong new canes that will be very productive. As the rose matures and (hopefully) throws up lots of new canes, you can selectively remove some of the old canes during spring pruning. With your young rose I suggest you avoid pruning it, and only deadhead blooms coming off of laterals this year....See Moreseil zone 6b MI
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