For the very best growth give your roses full sun and good air circulation.
Grow climbing roses on a free standing trellis or open fence.
Bright sunlight reflected off a wall can cook your roses. Always keep roses several inches away from a wall.
Tie as you go. When a climbing rose cane reaches a length where it needs support, tie it up loosely, bending it in a horizontal direction. This bending will cause many more flowering shoots to sprout, which will mean many more flowers.
Climbing roses considered “pillar type” bloom nicely when canes are grown up a post or pillar.
Always tie loosely to avoid binding and constricting the tissue.
To encourage a climbing rose to continue blooming throughout the growing season, cut off any spent(dead) flowers as soon as they begin to fade.
Cut back to a leaf in whose axil is a good live bud. Pull down gently on a leaf and see if bud is visible. Make the cut just above that leaf (see diagram). Don’t worry about whether it is an outward or inward facing bud.
Pruning Climbing Roses
Climbing Roses should never be pruned in the same manner as a bush rose. Climbing rose canes need to stay long! Climbers can be somewhat of an ugly duckling, growing slowly the first year with just a light blooming, but gradually gaining in expanse and becoming a wall of blooms.
Each year in January you will need to prune the flowering shoots that appear along the canes on your climbing rose. Cut back leaving 2 to 3 leaf buds on each shoot.
A. Dead wood
B. Lateral growth (flowering shoots)
C. Spindly growth
D. Unproductive cane
Once your climbing rose is 4 to 5 years old, you may need to do the following additional pruning each January:
Cut out any canes that are dead, diseased, spindly and unproductive. Make cuts all the way down to where growth originates.
After your rose is 3 to 4 years old a second pruning can be done in the spring just after the new growth appears. Prune the end of each stem by cutting below two or three leaves, leaving 3 to 4 buds to promote more vigorous flowering.
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