How to trim roses

Autumn plant trimming is necessary to strengthen them, providing access of buds and stems to light, ventilation of the crown and increase the winter hardiness. In addition, the autumn trimming of old branches leads to the laying of new buds and stronger shoots. Spring trimming is needed to enjoy and form a beautiful bush.

Pruning should not be exposed not only to the old-timers, which have been decorated with your flower bed for several years, but also young seedlings that were planted only this year. After autumn trimming, you should have a powerful weighing ships with sleeping kidney on a bush. No need to leave old shoots, covered with dry bark and having a huge number of lateral branches.

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Basics trim roses

• Use a sharp and clean tool.
• In the center, break the plant, so you will open access to air circulation and light.
• Pruning should be started from the base.
• Cuts do at an angle of 45 ° above the kidney, which grows outside the bush.
• Cuts must be made smooth, and non-torn tool edges.
• Remove patients damaged, dead branches.
• Delete also thin weak sprigs.
• If in your area pests bring a lot of problems, then cuts are better sealing to the astringent.

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Main types of rose trimming

So that your flower garden becomes more beautiful every year, consider the features of the varietal group of plants. Depending on the variety, the intensity of growth and the size of the bush, use the appropriate type of trimming:

• Short trimming - after it the base of the bush remains with two three very short shoots. This type of trimming is used for roses, inclined to severe tushes.
• The average trimming - stalks are shortened on half, leaving at the base low shoots 30 cm with 5-6 kidneys. This type of pruning is suitable for many groups of roses, only park and English roses are exception.
• Long trimming - after it leaves shoots on 2/3 of the stem, about ten kidneys. Such gentle and weak trimming is suitable for varieties of Bengal roses and tea-hybrid varieties, English and parking, species and vintage species. This method of trimming can also be made on other groups of roses, so you can achieve earlier flowering. But not everyone knows that if it is often practicing it for several years, then bushes will lose the form and stretch out, besides, their bloom will become.
• They are not shortened at all and do not need to pruning the stalks of the plentyful fine-color roses, large-flowered cut into a third of the lengths, the rest are half.
• In autumn trimming, soil roses do not need. Care lies in cutting patients broken, not affected by shoots or those that have lost decorativeness.

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How to cut roses bushes

Gardeners-specialists pruning roses advise to spend in a quiet and moderately sunny day of the third decade of autumn. Do not forget to check the sharpness of your secret, as well as to disinfect it, so as not to infect and not damage the plants.

• Determine the healthy and strong stems, leave five, and the rest cut down the priest until the secateur. A healthy escape should be dark green and a diameter of at least 1 cm, it also should not have a large number of side holes.
• Note on the selected strong shoots from the bottom to five kidneys, after you can proceed to pruning. Stem cut off quickly, without having it the middle and damaging the bark.
• The main thing is that the upper kidney is from the outside, back up from it for 1 cm and make a slice with a slope inside, it is necessary in order not to delay moisture on the cut. The middle of the trunk must be fresh and white.
• After trimming all the selected stems, wake the places of the sections of the garden with a garden or a special solution.
• Clean the bush and place around it from cut off the remnants to rotten they did not infect healthy branches and roots.

Only correctly cropped roses wake up in spring before ordinary time, they will give large buds and will bloom all summer and long. But you should not worry about what you can't do something, because now you know how to crop roses.