When and how are shrub roses cut?

For shrub roses to have great blooms, they need to be pruned regularly.

Here you can find out when the rose shears are used in spring and autumn.

• Shrub roses are an eye-catcher in every garden.

• When cutting, you have to distinguish between plants that bloom once and those that bloom more often.

• You can find out when the time has come for editing here.

Shrub roses - and roses in general - are always a great sight in the garden.

The plants reach a stately size of up to 2.5 meters and, thanks to their dense growth, always offer good privacy.

On top of that, they can be combined well with other perennials * to form a group plant, so that the whole garden blooms beautifully.

This is also possible over a period of several months: varieties that bloom more often produce new flowers well into autumn.

To ensure that your bush roses are always in top condition, you need to trim them regularly.

We'll explain here when to start and how to do it.

When is the right time to prune shrub roses?

By cutting the roses, you ensure that the plants *

.

Without the pruning, shrub roses would get bigger, but get longer, thinner and bare in the lower part of the plant.

The shrub can hardly produce strong flowers and pests have an easy time of it.

You can easily remember

the

pruning: Always

a rose is recommended when

the

is in bloom.

This is mostly

the case

.

When the time comes, you should have sharp, high-quality rose scissors on hand: This will prevent you from bruising the plant, which is used by fungi and germs.

For this reason, the scissors must always be cleaned.

Instructions: How to properly prune shrub roses that bloom once

Shrub roses that bloom once only bloom on perennial

wood.

That is why the plant relies on older shoots to produce the flower.

- only very old or withered shoots should be trimmed down to the new side shoots to care for the plant and dead or damaged wood cut back to around five centimeters.

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Instructions: How to properly prune shrub roses that bloom frequently

Frequently flowering shrub roses are characterized by

times

: In June they form flowers on the perennial wood, i.e. on the older shoots, while in July the new shoots produce a flower.

The pruning in spring ensures that the shrub rose, which blooms frequently, stays in good shape.

How to do it:

• Completely cut off any aged and dead branches.

• Shorten strong shoots from the previous year to a third.

• Shorten their

  side shoots to three to five eyes

  .

Make sure that there are always three to five main shoots left.

For English roses it should be more than five, as these often form thinner shoots.

It is also important that you

keep an

the

so that it thrives in a beautiful hemispherical shape.

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How to prune your shrub roses in autumn

After the flowering period

, you can start with the

: For shrub roses that bloom once, cut back long shoots that protrude from the shrub shape and remove dead flowers with three to four leaves together.

You should also remove one or two old shoots of the plant that are sloping to the ground.

Even with shrub roses that bloom more often, the faded flower clusters are cut back with three or four leaves and shoots that are too long are shortened.

Cutting guide when cutting shrub roses

Hobby gardeners often ask themselves where exactly a shoot should be cut off.

After all, this also determines the success of a pruning and the coming flowering.

You have to

pay attention to the following

when

the

:

• It is cut in the

  immediate vicinity of an eye

  , i.e. a thickening from which a flower or a shoot develops.

• Cut about five to ten millimeters above the eye.

• Hold the scissors at a slight angle so that the irrigation and rainwater can drain away.

• Choose an eye that leads away from the compression.

If you cut too close to the eye, you risk damaging the bud.

If the cut is too far away, an excess shoot is created that withers away.

Therefore you should strictly adhere to the mentioned cutting distances.

Then nothing should stand in the way of the coming bloom.

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