Thanks Jason. I learned a lot again today from the examples you showed and from the demonstrations you did. You’re an excellent teacher and I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with these videos.
Jason you truly are phenomenal teacher! Super direct yet in depth and nuanced. I really appreciate you providing the critical details that are needed to optimize plant growth. Your camera presence and production is some of the best i’ve seen in this genre of content .
Wow, you did not wear gloves while pruning those roses! 👏Thank you for all the wonderful advice! I had no idea how to prune the Salvia before watching the video.
Thank you Jason for another interesting video. It is a relief to know that I haven't been doing anything detrimental to my roses by trimming back the "wild" branches that grow much longer than the others. Beautiful roses!!
Just did a major prune on Paul’s Himalayan musk rose. It had really old wood and had a few new shoots coming on. The rose was over 25 feet tall and now more manageable to 15ft. Did the same to Felica musk rose and Gloria D’Jion with old stems that was 2” thick. Both roses had lots of new growth. Thanks for the tips.
After doing a really hard pruning on my 8 foot tall Three Sisters rose bush to ensure that my lovely scented white rose would have good air circulation & more sunshine I had hoped that this year the buds & most open roses would not go beige immediately. Now that blooms have been forming for 2 weeks, I see no improvement. So sad. Was planning to do cuttings to take it to another of my properties. Bought 2 miniatures yesterday, tag saying Kordana Rose on both but no specific name thought they are a tulip shaped open white size of plums, & a much smaller, flatter, many-tight-layered soft flesh pink. Hope that they do well. White has some fragrance that is mild & perfect for a houseplant. Both just lovely! Pruning chives between rain showers again...can only remember 2 dry warm days since those out of controls fires burned so many homes, & forests all over NS in each direction too close to me for comfort. Thank goodness I don't do that silly No Mow May. No tall weeds/haylike grass to spread fire around my 7 gardens in my large lawns or 3 wide, mowed ditches. I hand dig dandelions everywhere & only find ants & slugs in them. Bees etc are in my early ground covers, wild fruit trees & violets amongst the lawns. Then by June all the other plants offer food right to the hundreds of tall Sedum blooms in late November. My neighbour w. only enclosed dome veg gardens keeps bees & guess where they are for nectar!
I've been pruning roses last week and this week, i notice them throwing new shoots faster now. May be because it is not as hot now than the last few months. BTW, please make video how you dig out the sucker. I don't have that kind of problem so i am overtly curious
Jason, I hope you see this follow up. I took the suggestions you gave in a reply to another of my comments below. And I just wanted to let you know that you were right (of course!). I just let them be and waited patiently as you advised. My William Baffins are resprouting beautifully.
Hi just recently discovered your channel. Im a beginner when it comes to roses. Hope you could help me with my potted climbing roses. Much love from the Philippines!
Great video as always Jason. Do you think at some point you would be able to do a video on how you tend to plant roses? I know there are a many ways to skin a cat but on your level as a commercial grower, whats your preferred for soil preparation and planting? do you have a heavy duty augur? bust out the old spade? or some larger equipment?
I do have a really old video on the topic (like 5 years ago!): ruclips.net/video/uHRyW5u-Mqg/видео.html I keep it simple - so long as your garden soil is reasonable, backfill with the soil from the planting hole and save the fertilizer and amendments for later. Too much organic muck or fertilizer salts can be more harm than benefit at the time of planting.
Great video as always and thanks for sharing. I was wondering why you didn’t peg the longer canes of roses particularly once blooming. Warm greetings from India. -Rakesh
A great video as always! Can you think of a way to prune repeat bloomers to have them rebloom at a specific time? Concretely, I’d like to get them to bloom the last week of August (2024) for a garden party…
No, it would always be an educated guess based on your past experience with the variety - but also varies based on temperature at the time of flower development. Here's what I'd do right now: cut back everything you think you might want the timing on, and take note of how long it takes this year (2023) to return to bloom. Because you're working in the same season, just one year in advance, it's a reasonable starting point to think that a perennial or rose that returned to bloom in 4 weeks would do something similar next year.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with thorough demonstration. I wonder some hybrid tea roses are growing too tall (up to 3 m). The more I prune them down the taller they grow. For example: Papa Mayland, Royal Highness and Fragrant Plum. Is there something to do with sunlight?
Vigorous and well established roses can definitely shoot up aggressively after pruning, but I'd be inclined to just stay on top of pruning and pinching to encourage plenty of branching down low. The more stems the rose is dividing its energy into, the less overall height I think.
I have 2 questions I’d be grateful if you could guide me. 1) in a grafted rose plant, should the graft be above or below ground? 2) as a novice gardener, I quote don’t understand the difference between rose classification. More specifically Kordes Home & Garden floribunda rose gets me confused with the Portland rose I watched on your RUclips channel Your time and attention to my questions are much appreciated
1) Most advice is to plant the graft union a little below ground to protect it from severe cold in winter. In a mild climate like mine I can get away with planting it around ground level. 2) Kordes is a breeder, floribunda & Portland are classes. It's probably not too important to understand the technical classifications, but here's a starting point: ruclips.net/video/02QSPNdKIS4/видео.html
Help, Jason! I live in NE Ohio where we have hot (80 to 90 degrees), humid summers. My William Baffin hedge (five separate plants) is very well established and healthy, having been planted more than a decade ago. Because it had grown to 7+ feet tall and was very dense, I couldn’t reach the taller blooms to remove the Japanese beetles. So on around June 30, I got carried away and gave it a very hard pruning-a kind of pruning I should have done in early spring. As of today, I still don’t see any new sprouts growing from the ground or even from the canes. I’m worried I killed it. Should I fertilize? Any advice you can give would be greatly welcomed. Thank you.
If you cut back into wood below the actively growing shoots it's not surprising that the shrubs will take a while to push some dormant buds into growth. Don't panic. If the plants are otherwise healthy (and it sounds like they have been) I bet they'll pull through fine. I wouldn't bother with extra fertilizer right now. Keep to a consistent watering schedule and let them recover at their own rate.
My trouble with timing for pruning things is there is not much difference between summer and winter here. We have just started our second month of what we call winter and it is 25C and pouring rain at 4pm. I have chilli plants covered in fruit growing alongside lettuce and cauliflower. My (two) climbing roses just seem to have flowers on them continually, don't seem to start or stop. I don't feel bad. Just confused sometimes.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I have watched every one of your videos for a few years now and while quite a few don't apply to me personally, I have never thought any of them to be useless. Always a delightful nugget in there somewhere. Take care Jason.
Wow, how do you get such profuse blooms? Is it because you planted it in the ground coupled with fertilizers? How to get such blooms in containers. I know it cant be this much but i get lousy/measly blooms even after fertilizing both organic and inorganic. I give fertilizers also but never got such blooms in containers. Please make one video for fertilizing in containers.
Jason,Your farm looks amazing. This has been one of the hardest things for me to learn, cutting back does help not hurt. Do you take care of everything by yourself? Like to ask a question about Japanese beetles. We've tried everything on the market. I pick off morning an evening. About filled a third coffee can. Bag traps set away from our plants are almost full in a week. Roses,crype myrtles, American sycamore,and others are covered. We have treated yard for grubs,had professional sprays done ect, This is the fourth year of bettles and it's just getting worse . Even cut off rose flowers,heard that would help,but they simply eat the leaves. Any advice?
Thanks so much. Lisa pitches in for sure - moreso on the overall landscape than the direct plant care. I also have a former co-worker who comes out a couple days per week to help out on the farm. Hopefully now that we're not so tied up with customers we'll get a better handle on the gardens.
Japanese Beetle is not fully established in our region (yet!) so I'd be talking theory more than practice. They overwinter in lawns, so something like Milky Spore can help to cut their numbers. Of course, they can also fly in from quite a distance (especially when attracted by those traps). There are direct pesticides of course, but who wants to gear up and spray? I'd be more inclined to target with something biological like BTg or Spinosad than something more persistent.
Hi Jason, Thanks for a very useful video. Do you clean your puners as you move from plant to plant, particularly when pruning roses? If so what do you use? Or is there no need to do this?
Jason, your videos are excellent! I always enjoy watching you interact with and talk about your roses. Question: last year I bought a Felicite Parmentier shrub. I love it! It’s my only once-blooming rose. This year it produced several blooms but it doesn’t seem to be growing or producing new shoots like all my other roses. The flower bed has about 10 hours of sunlight and it’s been pouring here (Central NJ) a lot of the time for the past month. My soil is sandy/rocky and seems to drain well. The shrub has only 3 canes, no offshoots and they are fairly thin. Since I removed all the spent blooms a couple of weeks ago, it just seems to sit there - no change, nothing new. Any ideas about what’s going on with it or how I can get a bit more enthusiasm from it?
I'd urge patience while it takes some time to develop roots. A light dose of liquid feed nutrients (esp. nitrogen) can help to spur on some fast growth on young roses, but I suppose it depends on what you're already doing for feeding.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you, Jason. That's good to hear. I planted a Darcy Bussell rose this spring and it just sat there for weeks not doing anything. I emailed David Austin and they urged patience too. A few weeks later it took off! So, if you urge patience, I will heed your advice with the confidence that at some point, my Felicite Parmentier will establish itself. It's such a beautiful rose and the scent!! There is something precious about an old-fashioned, once blooming rose. :)
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Also, could all the rain account for the fact that my first flush produced big flowers on all my shrubs but now with the exception of my Lady of Shallot they are really small. I have a Marchesa Boccella that is producing flowers that are literally one inch max. My Desdemona, which is really prolific, is now producing flowers not much bigger than that as is my Alnwick rose.
I know it’s almost impossible to name a rose, but I found a rose in an old abandoned garden here on Gotland that I could dig up and try to bring it to life again. The buds start with a bright red/orange tone, not at all my colour palette, turns to intense orange (still not my colour palette), fades to salmon (that’s better) and ends up peachy pink! Perfect! 😂❤ Are there many old varieties that make this kind of total transformation?
The hybrid musk roses are well known for a dramatic fade from darker buds to paler finished blooms, but the feature is not exclusive to that group. Westerland does something similar in the orange range, fading through peach and pink.
Do I need to deadhead my climbing roses? They were profuse bloomers this spring but have slowed down now. Do I need to get the ladder out and deadhead?
Depends on whether you have time and sufficient health insurance to mount the ladder! Some roses respond better than others, but it's a real judgement call whether it's worth it on something so large.
I keep hearing that there are OGR’s that will die if they are pruned, like ever. Have you had any experience with that? Is there a list of roses that cannot recover from pruning? Thank you for the very helpful video! I knew about pruning salvia, but I didn’t realize that cutting back works for nepeta, and agastache, too. :)
Thanks Mary. No, I've never found that my OGRs die off after pruning, and I've pruned many! I have heard that they "dislike" heavy pruning, and I've taken it under advisement but TBH I've generally been able to improve the shape and vigor of the shrub, and if the work is appropriately timed (as in this vid) I've still seen good flowering the following season.
I have a question - I was deadheading a rose and a new stem from this spring. It was Hollow on the inside !! I kept cutting down to a healthy, not hollow stem. Is it some bugs or some other issue ? I think it had some bugs but can they damage the stem on the inside ? Or is it something else ?
It could be a cane borer insect. Most cane borers are just a small nuisance and cause manageable damage. There are other more serious borers too, but don't be alarmed - just keep an eye out for any additional damage, and especially for any canes that show swelling or severe die-back, and repeat what you just did: cutting back to the healthy part of the stem.
Thank you for the info, I was wondering about my lilacs. I had a question, my lilacs which are light purple and pink, they had all their flowers and then before they died they turned white? I’ve never see that before, and I mean Snow White, it was really beautiful but very unusual and I wondered if it means anything?
Related to pruning, please allow me to ask about cutting off flowers buds. While I personally don't care too much about pruning all the brunches so that the next flush of flowers will be uniform, I know many people cut off rose buds to encourage leaf and root development. I have a very young Japanese rose plant related to the Yves Piaget rose, and it has black spots on roughly 30% of the leaves. Right now it has 6-8 flowers/buds, and I'm hesitant in whether or not I should remove all the flowers/buds so that I can also remove all the infected leaves and aim for leaf growth. I'm afraid of removing the infected leaves now without cutting flowers/buds because it has long flowering stems and doesn't have too many leaves. Since this is a repeating rose, I hope that I would get the next flush in August or September.
Some people disbud all their roses in the first year while establishing - and there's probably some advantage in redirecting the plant's energy to building more stems and leaves. If I have time, I'll do it for young roses in pots.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm A really good example is when you buy roses from big box stores and some nurseries. They typically prune back pretty short for transport reasons, but the benefit is usually additional stems sprouting. My Lavender Angel Face rose was such a case and it is the most active rose I have now. The first round of blooms was sporadic, but after I deadheaded each flower, it took about 3 weeks and all of a sudden there were 13 buds developing and the plant is about a half meter tall with 7 or 8 stems. The first flowers were rather small and I probably should have pinched them off, but I was anxious to see what they were going look like. I do agree that it's more about each plant than a specific time or year because many times plants will decide to bloom early or late depending upon what happens over the winter months that might change their internal clock. My roses are a full month behind you because the weather climate up here is so drastically different from the other property. Roses R. U. University is really taking off Jason!😉🤙
At the set of 5 leaves on the stem. The exception to that is when you are just plucking off the flower heads. When you look at the stem underneath the rose you will see a few single leaves, then 3 leaf clusters, and then the mature stem 5 cluster leaves. Cut above the top 5 leaf cluster. You will notice that the stem is much larger and stiffer at that point.🤙
Thanks Stephen. Above a node, but TBH I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the position of the cut. A lot of advice will tell you a specific distance & angle above an "outward facing" node. That's seems needlessly specific - focus on overall shape, size and health and the rose will decide where to send its new shoots.
i have a young David Austin rose, after the first bloom, I pruned it back and its refused to grow anything, no buds, nothing. Been a few months, and I am in the tropics. Very strange. Other roses are growing happily.
I'd rather not be so specific. The longest day in the northern hemisphere happens in late June, but the kind of pruning I'm talking about here is triggered by the stage of growth or flowering of the plants. You can begin deadheading on repeat bloomers as soon as the flowers begin to fade, and I usually do structural pruning on old garden roses and spring blooming shrubs as soon as they're finished their bloom cycle. I've heard that it's better to have it done by the end of July (again, northern hemisphere) but I suspect that's pretty arbitrary too.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I agree Jason. Even here in Hawaii, I am noticing similar behavior. To my surprise, after deadheading several roses like Olympiad, Carabia, and Don Juan, the blooms were literally double the size. My guess is that the pruning basically reset the rose bushes after the relocation last year because I did not prune. Of course there are differing opinions, but I chose not to prune as not to traumatize the plants knowing they were going to be shocked by the new location as it was. Some growers suggest a deep pruning as a preventative measure, but that is usually a winterizing plan rather than a complete climate and location change. I will definitely be deadheading all of the roses as they finish flowering out, as well as taking cuttings. Selective pruning really allows the moment to take a close look at each plant in their peak growing environment so you can see any potential problems developing and catch them early. It's been very interesting watching all of adaptations, the good, the bad, and the struggling.🤙
The roses in out mother stock field have enough space between for our lawnmower to maneuver around. Some are much larger shrubs than others and we may fill in some gaps as they mature.
Please becareful not wearing gloves. I ended up having emergency surgery because a rose thorn broke off in the joint of my middle finger. It very quickly became necrotic, so tissue and cartridge had to be removed. Its been several yrs, yet I still have alot of pain and limited range if motion. Sporotrichosis can be deadly and treating it cost thousands of dollars and takes months.
Lol. I wear leather gloves when I don't mind be slowed down a bit (and certainly on varieties like Darlow's Enigma - sharp!) but if I can get away with just pulling the cut stems out with my pruners that's what I'll do.
Hi dear friend thank you so much for a wonderful video today. Always love guitar video. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy, Debbie.
You have my respect. Pruning roses w/o gloves!
Respect. No gloves.
Right? I was like, woah
You are the best at explaining anything! Hands down!! 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much!
Your pruning videos are the best .
Thanks Jason. I learned a lot again today from the examples you showed and from the demonstrations you did. You’re an excellent teacher and I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with these videos.
Jason you truly are phenomenal teacher! Super direct yet in depth and nuanced. I really appreciate you providing the critical details that are needed to optimize plant growth. Your camera presence and production is some of the best i’ve seen in this genre of content .
I really appreciate the feedback!
Wow, you did not wear gloves while pruning those roses! 👏Thank you for all the wonderful advice! I had no idea how to prune the Salvia before watching the video.
Hi Jason. I always learn something new from your videos. Much love from Trinidad to everyone.⚘
Your advice is timely, so I can move ahead with confidence now.
Nice wide assortment of plants. . . thanks for the tips.
I absolutely love your videos Jason, straight to the point without any annoying fluff! My go-to channel for all things rose.
Thanks so much!
Thank you Jason for another interesting video. It is a relief to know that I haven't been doing anything detrimental to my roses by trimming back the "wild" branches that grow much longer than the others. Beautiful roses!!
perfectly timed to tidy up my garden. Thank you.
Brilliant! Very informative. Thank you Jason.
Very interesting in growing in painted tires!
Just did a major prune on Paul’s Himalayan musk rose. It had really old wood and had a few new shoots coming on. The rose was over 25 feet tall and now more manageable to 15ft. Did the same to Felica musk rose and Gloria D’Jion with old stems that was 2” thick. Both roses had lots of new growth. Thanks for the tips.
Those are some brave (but necessary) cuts on your part!
Thank you Jason. 🌸💚🙃
Thank you for another great and informative video.
Good to see yH JaSon! Great info Thank you❤ GA 🇺🇸
Thanks Jason!
Thank you so much. I live in a much harsher area, just north of Saskatoon. It is such a treat to enjoy your roses. The information is invaluable.
Thanks Helen
After doing a really hard pruning on my 8 foot tall Three Sisters rose bush to ensure that my lovely scented white rose would have good air circulation & more sunshine I had hoped that this year the buds & most open roses would not go beige immediately. Now that blooms have been forming for 2 weeks, I see no improvement. So sad. Was planning to do cuttings to take it to another of my properties. Bought 2 miniatures yesterday, tag saying Kordana Rose on both but no specific name thought they are a tulip shaped open white size of plums, & a much smaller, flatter, many-tight-layered soft flesh pink. Hope that they do well. White has some fragrance that is mild & perfect for a houseplant. Both just lovely! Pruning chives between rain showers again...can only remember 2 dry warm days since those out of controls fires burned so many homes, & forests all over NS in each direction too close to me for comfort. Thank goodness I don't do that silly No Mow May. No tall weeds/haylike grass to spread fire around my 7 gardens in my large lawns or 3 wide, mowed ditches. I hand dig dandelions everywhere & only find ants & slugs in them. Bees etc are in my early ground covers, wild fruit trees & violets amongst the lawns. Then by June all the other plants offer food right to the hundreds of tall Sedum blooms in late November. My neighbour w. only enclosed dome veg gardens keeps bees & guess where they are for nectar!
Thanks for the refresher. I've added this to my To Do list for tomorrow!
Great video, thank you! Happy independence day!🤗
I needed this inspo for my roses! You look younger! How is that possible? lol. Thanks again.
Very useful, thank you for sharing🌹🌹🌹😊
Hi Jason, would love to see a video on pegging roses with those "lion tails".
Beautiful!
I’m so envious!
Many thanks for the information you so generously impart.
I received your rose growing guide, and yes, have read it carefully.
Regards J
Wonderful tutorial!!Keep up the good work!!
Thanks!
I've been pruning roses last week and this week, i notice them throwing new shoots faster now. May be because it is not as hot now than the last few months. BTW, please make video how you dig out the sucker. I don't have that kind of problem so i am overtly curious
Jason, I hope you see this follow up. I took the suggestions you gave in a reply to another of my comments below. And I just wanted to let you know that you were right (of course!). I just let them be and waited patiently as you advised. My William Baffins are resprouting beautifully.
Awesome!
Hi just recently discovered your channel. Im a beginner when it comes to roses. Hope you could help me with my potted climbing roses. Much love from the Philippines!
Great video as always Jason. Do you think at some point you would be able to do a video on how you tend to plant roses? I know there are a many ways to skin a cat but on your level as a commercial grower, whats your preferred for soil preparation and planting? do you have a heavy duty augur? bust out the old spade? or some larger equipment?
I do have a really old video on the topic (like 5 years ago!): ruclips.net/video/uHRyW5u-Mqg/видео.html I keep it simple - so long as your garden soil is reasonable, backfill with the soil from the planting hole and save the fertilizer and amendments for later. Too much organic muck or fertilizer salts can be more harm than benefit at the time of planting.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you
Great video as always and thanks for sharing. I was wondering why you didn’t peg the longer canes of roses particularly once blooming. Warm greetings from India.
-Rakesh
I'll do that in some places, but the ones in the stock field are kept in upright shrub from just so we can mow around them easily
@@FraserValleyRoseFarmDo you have a video on pegging?? Also, great video as always.
A great video as always! Can you think of a way to prune repeat bloomers to have them rebloom at a specific time? Concretely, I’d like to get them to bloom the last week of August (2024) for a garden party…
No, it would always be an educated guess based on your past experience with the variety - but also varies based on temperature at the time of flower development. Here's what I'd do right now: cut back everything you think you might want the timing on, and take note of how long it takes this year (2023) to return to bloom. Because you're working in the same season, just one year in advance, it's a reasonable starting point to think that a perennial or rose that returned to bloom in 4 weeks would do something similar next year.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with thorough demonstration. I wonder some hybrid tea roses are growing too tall (up to 3 m). The more I prune them down the taller they grow. For example: Papa Mayland, Royal Highness and Fragrant Plum. Is there something to do with sunlight?
Vigorous and well established roses can definitely shoot up aggressively after pruning, but I'd be inclined to just stay on top of pruning and pinching to encourage plenty of branching down low. The more stems the rose is dividing its energy into, the less overall height I think.
I have 2 questions I’d be grateful if you could guide me.
1) in a grafted rose plant, should the graft be above or below ground?
2) as a novice gardener, I quote don’t understand the difference between rose classification. More specifically Kordes Home & Garden floribunda rose gets me confused with the Portland rose I watched on your RUclips channel
Your time and attention to my questions are much appreciated
1) Most advice is to plant the graft union a little below ground to protect it from severe cold in winter. In a mild climate like mine I can get away with planting it around ground level. 2) Kordes is a breeder, floribunda & Portland are classes. It's probably not too important to understand the technical classifications, but here's a starting point: ruclips.net/video/02QSPNdKIS4/видео.html
Another good video Jason. Different topic, what should the soil ph be for roses? Or any other soil measurements?
They prefer slightly acidic, but neutral is okay. Roses tend to struggle on very alkaline soils.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Just got a soil test kit! Mine seem to be struggling right now, even in the Spring. Hoping this might be the answer. Thanks!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm What do you use to bring the PH down or up?
Help, Jason! I live in NE Ohio where we have hot (80 to 90 degrees), humid summers. My William Baffin hedge (five separate plants) is very well established and healthy, having been planted more than a decade ago. Because it had grown to 7+ feet tall and was very dense, I couldn’t reach the taller blooms to remove the Japanese beetles. So on around June 30, I got carried away and gave it a very hard pruning-a kind of pruning I should have done in early spring. As of today, I still don’t see any new sprouts growing from the ground or even from the canes. I’m worried I killed it. Should I fertilize? Any advice you can give would be greatly welcomed. Thank you.
If you cut back into wood below the actively growing shoots it's not surprising that the shrubs will take a while to push some dormant buds into growth. Don't panic. If the plants are otherwise healthy (and it sounds like they have been) I bet they'll pull through fine. I wouldn't bother with extra fertilizer right now. Keep to a consistent watering schedule and let them recover at their own rate.
My trouble with timing for pruning things is there is not much difference between summer and winter here. We have just started our second month of what we call winter and it is 25C and pouring rain at 4pm. I have chilli plants covered in fruit growing alongside lettuce and cauliflower. My (two) climbing roses just seem to have flowers on them continually, don't seem to start or stop. I don't feel bad. Just confused sometimes.
I can only imagine. And I bet those in truly tropical latitudes find my talk of defined seasons annoyingly useless!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I have watched every one of your videos for a few years now and while quite a few don't apply to me personally, I have never thought any of them to be useless. Always a delightful nugget in there somewhere. Take care Jason.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm
Not useless, but the winter part is less useful than the rest.😂
Wow, how do you get such profuse blooms? Is it because you planted it in the ground coupled with fertilizers? How to get such blooms in containers. I know it cant be this much but i get lousy/measly blooms even after fertilizing both organic and inorganic. I give fertilizers also but never got such blooms in containers. Please make one video for fertilizing in containers.
Thanks - I do have an upcoming video topic on fertilizer
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Great! Thanks. Will wait.
Jason,Your farm looks amazing. This has been one of the hardest things for me to learn, cutting back does help not hurt. Do you take care of everything by yourself? Like to ask a question about Japanese beetles. We've tried everything on the market. I pick off morning an evening. About filled a third coffee can. Bag traps set away from our plants are almost full in a week. Roses,crype myrtles, American sycamore,and others are covered. We have treated yard for grubs,had professional sprays done ect, This is the fourth year of bettles and it's just getting worse . Even cut off rose flowers,heard that would help,but they simply eat the leaves. Any advice?
Thanks so much. Lisa pitches in for sure - moreso on the overall landscape than the direct plant care. I also have a former co-worker who comes out a couple days per week to help out on the farm. Hopefully now that we're not so tied up with customers we'll get a better handle on the gardens.
Japanese Beetle is not fully established in our region (yet!) so I'd be talking theory more than practice. They overwinter in lawns, so something like Milky Spore can help to cut their numbers. Of course, they can also fly in from quite a distance (especially when attracted by those traps). There are direct pesticides of course, but who wants to gear up and spray? I'd be more inclined to target with something biological like BTg or Spinosad than something more persistent.
Hi Jason, Thanks for a very useful video. Do you clean your puners as you move from plant to plant, particularly when pruning roses? If so what do you use? Or is there no need to do this?
Yes. Lysol spray or wipes are as good as anything else.
Many thanks 😊
Jason, your videos are excellent! I always enjoy watching you interact with and talk about your roses. Question: last year I bought a Felicite Parmentier shrub. I love it! It’s my only once-blooming rose. This year it produced several blooms but it doesn’t seem to be growing or producing new shoots like all my other roses. The flower bed has about 10 hours of sunlight and it’s been pouring here (Central NJ) a lot of the time for the past month. My soil is sandy/rocky and seems to drain well. The shrub has only 3 canes, no offshoots and they are fairly thin. Since I removed all the spent blooms a couple of weeks ago, it just seems to sit there - no change, nothing new. Any ideas about what’s going on with it or how I can get a bit more enthusiasm from it?
I'd urge patience while it takes some time to develop roots. A light dose of liquid feed nutrients (esp. nitrogen) can help to spur on some fast growth on young roses, but I suppose it depends on what you're already doing for feeding.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you, Jason. That's good to hear. I planted a Darcy Bussell rose this spring and it just sat there for weeks not doing anything. I emailed David Austin and they urged patience too. A few weeks later it took off! So, if you urge patience, I will heed your advice with the confidence that at some point, my Felicite Parmentier will establish itself. It's such a beautiful rose and the scent!! There is something precious about an old-fashioned, once blooming rose. :)
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Also, could all the rain account for the fact that my first flush produced big flowers on all my shrubs but now with the exception of my Lady of Shallot they are really small. I have a Marchesa Boccella that is producing flowers that are literally one inch max. My Desdemona, which is really prolific, is now producing flowers not much bigger than that as is my Alnwick rose.
I know it’s almost impossible to name a rose, but I found a rose in an old abandoned garden here on Gotland that I could dig up and try to bring it to life again. The buds start with a bright red/orange tone, not at all my colour palette, turns to intense orange (still not my colour palette), fades to salmon (that’s better) and ends up peachy pink! Perfect! 😂❤
Are there many old varieties that make this kind of total transformation?
The hybrid musk roses are well known for a dramatic fade from darker buds to paler finished blooms, but the feature is not exclusive to that group. Westerland does something similar in the orange range, fading through peach and pink.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I’m most certain it’s a Westerland comparing to pictures, thank you!
Do I need to deadhead my climbing roses? They were profuse bloomers this spring but have slowed down now. Do I need to get the ladder out and deadhead?
Depends on whether you have time and sufficient health insurance to mount the ladder! Some roses respond better than others, but it's a real judgement call whether it's worth it on something so large.
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Size management would definitely be something to consider.
Too bad drones don't come with pruning skills.
I keep hearing that there are OGR’s that will die if they are pruned, like ever. Have you had any experience with that? Is there a list of roses that cannot recover from pruning?
Thank you for the very helpful video! I knew about pruning salvia, but I didn’t realize that cutting back works for nepeta, and agastache, too. :)
Thanks Mary. No, I've never found that my OGRs die off after pruning, and I've pruned many! I have heard that they "dislike" heavy pruning, and I've taken it under advisement but TBH I've generally been able to improve the shape and vigor of the shrub, and if the work is appropriately timed (as in this vid) I've still seen good flowering the following season.
Thank you! That’s really reassuring.
I have a question - I was deadheading a rose and a new stem from this spring. It was Hollow on the inside !! I kept cutting down to a healthy, not hollow stem. Is it some bugs or some other issue ? I think it had some bugs but can they damage the stem on the inside ? Or is it something else ?
It could be a cane borer insect. Most cane borers are just a small nuisance and cause manageable damage. There are other more serious borers too, but don't be alarmed - just keep an eye out for any additional damage, and especially for any canes that show swelling or severe die-back, and repeat what you just did: cutting back to the healthy part of the stem.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thanks, I'll spray with something .
Thank you for the info, I was wondering about my lilacs.
I had a question, my lilacs which are light purple and pink, they had all their flowers and then before they died they turned white? I’ve never see that before, and I mean Snow White, it was really beautiful but very unusual and I wondered if it means anything?
I hear it can be a reaction to high temperatures. Does that make sense in your situation?
Can I cut back my roses like that during this drought we're having here in San Antonio, Texas? Today is 7/3/23
I can't say too much about your local weather, but generally you'd want to be able to follow up with regular watering.
Related to pruning, please allow me to ask about cutting off flowers buds. While I personally don't care too much about pruning all the brunches so that the next flush of flowers will be uniform, I know many people cut off rose buds to encourage leaf and root development. I have a very young Japanese rose plant related to the Yves Piaget rose, and it has black spots on roughly 30% of the leaves. Right now it has 6-8 flowers/buds, and I'm hesitant in whether or not I should remove all the flowers/buds so that I can also remove all the infected leaves and aim for leaf growth. I'm afraid of removing the infected leaves now without cutting flowers/buds because it has long flowering stems and doesn't have too many leaves. Since this is a repeating rose, I hope that I would get the next flush in August or September.
Some people disbud all their roses in the first year while establishing - and there's probably some advantage in redirecting the plant's energy to building more stems and leaves. If I have time, I'll do it for young roses in pots.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thank you so much!
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A really good example is when you buy roses from big box stores and some nurseries. They typically prune back pretty short for transport reasons, but the benefit is usually additional stems sprouting. My Lavender Angel Face rose was such a case and it is the most active rose I have now. The first round of blooms was sporadic, but after I deadheaded each flower, it took about 3 weeks and all of a sudden there were 13 buds developing and the plant is about a half meter tall with 7 or 8 stems.
The first flowers were rather small and I probably should have pinched them off, but I was anxious to see what they were going look like.
I do agree that it's more about each plant than a specific time or year because many times plants will decide to bloom early or late depending upon what happens over the winter months that might change their internal clock.
My roses are a full month behind you because the weather climate up here is so drastically different from the other property.
Roses R. U. University is really taking off Jason!😉🤙
When you are reshaping the rose bushes, where exactly are you cutting? You do not show.
At the set of 5 leaves on the stem.
The exception to that is when you are just plucking off the flower heads.
When you look at the stem underneath the rose you will see a few single leaves, then 3 leaf clusters, and then the mature stem 5 cluster leaves. Cut above the top 5 leaf cluster. You will notice that the stem is much larger and stiffer at that point.🤙
Thanks Stephen. Above a node, but TBH I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the position of the cut. A lot of advice will tell you a specific distance & angle above an "outward facing" node. That's seems needlessly specific - focus on overall shape, size and health and the rose will decide where to send its new shoots.
i have a young David Austin rose, after the first bloom, I pruned it back and its refused to grow anything, no buds, nothing. Been a few months, and I am in the tropics. Very strange. Other roses are growing happily.
Crossing my fingers for its recovery
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thank you. By the way, I am spraying BT.K twice a week, seems to keep chewing bugs away. That's a win.
please specify from which day to which month of summer, but who knows what day it is mid summer? Note: you missing a chain saw
I'd rather not be so specific. The longest day in the northern hemisphere happens in late June, but the kind of pruning I'm talking about here is triggered by the stage of growth or flowering of the plants. You can begin deadheading on repeat bloomers as soon as the flowers begin to fade, and I usually do structural pruning on old garden roses and spring blooming shrubs as soon as they're finished their bloom cycle. I've heard that it's better to have it done by the end of July (again, northern hemisphere) but I suspect that's pretty arbitrary too.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you very much and have a wonderful Holiday, July 4
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I agree Jason.
Even here in Hawaii, I am noticing similar behavior.
To my surprise, after deadheading several roses like Olympiad, Carabia, and Don Juan, the blooms were literally double the size.
My guess is that the pruning basically reset the rose bushes after the relocation last year because I did not prune.
Of course there are differing opinions, but I chose not to prune as not to traumatize the plants knowing they were going to be shocked by the new location as it was.
Some growers suggest a deep pruning as a preventative measure, but that is usually a winterizing plan rather than a complete climate and location change.
I will definitely be deadheading all of the roses as they finish flowering out, as well as taking cuttings.
Selective pruning really allows the moment to take a close look at each plant in their peak growing environment so you can see any potential problems developing and catch them early.
It's been very interesting watching all of adaptations, the good, the bad, and the struggling.🤙
Why do you leave so much space between roses ?
The roses in out mother stock field have enough space between for our lawnmower to maneuver around. Some are much larger shrubs than others and we may fill in some gaps as they mature.
Please becareful not wearing gloves.
I ended up having emergency surgery because a rose thorn broke off in the joint of my middle finger. It very quickly became necrotic, so tissue and cartridge had to be removed. Its been several yrs, yet I still have alot of pain and limited range if motion.
Sporotrichosis can be deadly and treating it cost thousands of dollars and takes months.
Thanks for the reminder
How come your arms aren’t shredded? 🌸💚🙃 Iron man? 🌸💚🙃
Lol. I wear leather gloves when I don't mind be slowed down a bit (and certainly on varieties like Darlow's Enigma - sharp!) but if I can get away with just pulling the cut stems out with my pruners that's what I'll do.
You are not wearing gloves when pruning roses! How are you not getting hurt?
Just a light touch when handling the stems - but I wear leather gloves when a variety carries vary sharp prickles.