Gardeners warned doing essential rose job 'too late' will kill off new growth
Autumn is a busy time for gardeners, there's a lot to get done to ensure that all your plants will survive the swiftly approaching winter months and that you can kick-start growth in your green space as soon as spring arrives. One job, however, might be best to avoid at this exact time, if you haven't already tackled it: pruning your roses.
Knowing when to cut back all the different plants in your garden can be a challenge because they all have different needs. That even applies to different varieties of your prized roses themselves. Shrubs have different requirements and characteristics to climbers and you need to make sure you choose the best time to prune each kind, to ensure they safely make it through the cold, frosty months.
Pruning roses too late in the year can simply kill off any new growth, because it "won't have enough time to harden off before winter", according to the Express. This is because the new shoots will be vulnerable to the frosts, and won't be hardy enough to survive them.
Generally speaking, pruning is a completely essential task if you want to make sure that your roses are as vibrant, and healthy as possible, and are able to grow many blooms. There is, however, one variety of roses that can be safely pruned in the early autumn: the rambling rose. These should be pruned in August and September after they have flowered.
According to Gardener's World, generally "the best time to prune roses is from late winter to early spring, just around the time new growth starts." When the first growth will appear will depend on where you live, those in southern parts of the UK where it is more temperate might even be lucky enough to see some new leaves in January, but if you live further north where it is cooler, you could be waiting until April for new growth to appear.
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For rambling roses and climber varieties, some pruning can be done in the late summer to autumn. The Royal Horitcultural Society (RHS) recommends that with climbing varieties you focus on pruning or tying "long whippy shoots" in the Autumn to ensure they don't get damaged by any strong winds that could appear. Heavy pruning for climbers should be done between December and February to encourage vitality and vigorous growth in the spring.
Most varieties should not be pruned around this time of year. Instead, you should wait until mid-February if you live in the south or March if you live in the north, this includes groundcover roses, shrubs, bush, and tea or hybrid roses - but bear in mind that if you see new growth earlier than mid-February, it's fine to start pruning.
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