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Roses grow best when they are professionally cut.
Learn how to do it properly depending on the variety to avoid disease.
Wild roses certainly have their charm - but most hobby gardeners prefer an accurate shape.
With reasons: Only a rose bush that is cared for and trimmed is likely to produce beautiful flowers.
However, if you cut incorrectly, you may damage the delicate plants and risk disease and, in the worst case, plant death.
Rule number one: It is best to always prune roses in spring, never in autumn.
If frost penetrates the fresh interfaces, the branch could otherwise die.
The basic rules for pruning roses
As soon as the first buds appear, you can grab a pair of clean, sharp secateurs (promotional link).
This is about the time the forsythia blooms in February or March.
But you can also wait until summer to prune.
The most important rules for pruning roses are: Always start just above a bud and cut slightly at an angle.
This means that rain and irrigation water can drain away easily and does not penetrate the interface.
Rose cutting: In spring it's time for the secateurs.
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Cut away old, brown shoots down to the young, green wood.
You may have to radically cut back to the ground.
If you're lucky, there will still be shoots dormant underground that will sprout again.
Also remove diseased shoots: reddish-brown to purple spots are a sign of the dangerous bark spot disease.
Generously cut away shoots with fungal infections.
However, you do not cut wild shoots - you tear them off as soon as they appear.
You can recognize them because the leaves are a different color.
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The final touches to rose care ultimately depend on how your rose grows:
Radically cut back weakly growing specimens.
This is how you encourage strong urges.
If the rose is already growing luxuriantly, prune it hesitantly.
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Be sure to remember to remove leaves and clippings at the end.
Otherwise pathogens can form here.
Climbing rose or floribunda rose: the right cut for every variety
Stem roses:
Cut the crowns back heavily.
Branches are undesirable here.
Therefore, only a few shoots remain about 20 centimeters wide.
Climbing roses:
You cut this variety little or not at all.
Typically, all you need to do is bend branches horizontally and tie them in place.
Remove a maximum of two of the main shoots.
They only shorten strong side shoots to three to five eyes.
Also remove shoots that are more than five years old.
If your climbing rose blooms once, radically cut back the side shoots that have borne flowers to around 20 centimeters in the summer.
Shrub roses:
Cut the more frequently flowering varieties down to one or two buds after the first flowering.
You should also remove the oldest shoots annually.
Apart from the basic rules, you don't have to cut specimens that bloom once.
Noble and floribunda roses:
These varieties need sun - so cut them back heavily in spring.
Noble and floribunda roses should only be 20 to 40 centimeters above the ground.
There are still three to five eyes on the shoot.
For dwarf roses, even ten to 15 centimeters are enough.