Aberdeen Gardening – Help For The Amateur Gardener

Climbing roses, when well cared for are a magnificent sight. When pruning after the first season any strong shoots can be trained and tied, for best results the stems should be trained laterally in a fan shape taking care not to break any shoots. This will have the effect of producing more flowers along the stems.In subsequent years all strong shoots should be reduced by 25-30%. Weak growth and dead wood should be removed altogether.After three or four seasons the original basal growths may begin to look old and woody and it is quite likely that they have ceased to become usefully productive and should be completely removed at the base in order to make way for new prolific growth.Pruning climbers can often be a daunting task especially when having to decide which growth to completely take out, but it should be remembered that any stems that are removed should be more than adequately replenished with fresher, stronger and more productive new growth later in the season.

Pruning ramblers is slightly more complicated because they flower on the previous years growth. They are best either just left to ramble, or immediately after flowering remove the stems that have borne flowers, leaving the newly produced growth to flower the following year.

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