Olga this is the best video I have watched on climbing roses, you are so informative and you have a very soothing voice so much so that i take more notice of what you are saying 😊 Your garden is beautiful, especially your roses. I have subscribed to your channel today and will be looking forward to seeing your future videos. All my thoughts are with you and your family. Sending much love from Liverpool UK ❤❤❤
This is the best video on pruning climbing roses I have ever watched and I've watched a lot. It also answered many questions about issues I've been having with ffew blooms and shaping the plant. So informative. Good camera angles. So glad you took the time to make an excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Thank you Olga! From your video I learned that I am trimming my Generous Gardeners a few years early and probably removed some main canes thinking they were blind shoots because they didn’t have any buds.
I’m now realizing I’ve been scared to prune my roses properly for the last 6 years 😮. Will be bolder now with your detailed explanations of why and how to prune ❤ Great detailed video on climbing rose pruning!
thank you for the clear explanations an details. I ve been pruning roses for years with out really understanding very well, even after watching many gardening shows. Your videos are so helpful!!
Well done, girlfriend! I'm so excited to see those beautiful pink blooms again. I had to transplant my Generous Gardener, and my New Dawn rose to the back fence and out from under the shade tree that grew over their arbor. I'm happy to say they both have survived the move and are looking healthy. I doubt I will get very many blooms this year, so I will enjoy seeing yours.
@@OlgaCarmody my New Dawn and my Generous Gardener are both 5 years old. I had them on each side of a very large arbor my hubby built for me. They both grew up and over and covered that arbor in pink blooms! No, not a shrub at all. Although I’m sure it would be happy as a shrub if I decided to make it into one.
Thank you for your wonderful teaching. I think I now understand how to train a climbing rose. I planted Wollerton Old Hall last year and so happy to understand a climbing rose. Love your you tubes!!
Thank you for explaining so well, how to trim my generous garden rose. I finally understand now. 🥰 Now I just have to figure out how to protect the canes for our Minnesota zone 4 winters 😬
Thank you so much for this!!! I was worried about my Eden! I haven’t had a bloom and I got it fall 2022, have not prune it ever But this year I’ll be getting an arch and I’ll be trialing. Hopefully I can get one bloom 🩷
Hi Olga… thank you so much for this video. When I was in hospital in midsummer, my lovely daughter stayed and surprised me with a garden tidy up. Unfortunately, she gave my prized and beloved Eden climbing roses a ‘trim’ that were half way to covering an arch. She pruned off the leaders 😢 and I’m hoping that you can tell me that I can still get the luscious arch I’ve dreamed about all my life 😂. They were doing so beautifully and the arch is about 2-3 metres long which enabled me to grow them horizontally, and it was blooming like crazy in its first year of me planting it! It responded well to worm tea. I know she meant well, but I’m gutted. What can I do?
A very informative video. Thank you! I’ve just planted 2 Generous Gardener climbers on a very tall arch, and just hoping that when the time comes to prune them I’ll be able to reach the top!
Hi Olga- this was the best tutorial video on climbing roses I've seen in years! Question for you. I put in two climbers last year. The main stems have been damaged by snowfall so I trimmed the main cane to about 2 feet off the ground. What now? Should I trim to the ground and hope it produces a new main cane? I would hate for my climbers to become "shrubby"- Any advice welcomed.
Hi Olga, Thank you for all of your wonderful videos. I recently repot my new climbers (about a year old). Each of them has only one main stem, but both stems are now having the “dead head”, similar to those heads that don’t produce flowers. Should I cut them off for the roses to produce new main canes? Or should I leave them alone? One rose are having lateral canes growing strongly from that stopped growing main cane.
Dearest Olga- wonderful knowledge and thank you for sharing! I’ve an odd question for you about a Don Juan climber that I planted in April of this year. All of my newly planted have blessed me with at least 1 bloom. My DJ is growing beautiful foliage but not one bloom. I’ve pruned slightly to the nearest 5 leaf on the shoots to be sure they are not blind. I’ve given him a nice drink of more bloom. Nothing! It does not appear to be root stock. How long should I give this climber before giving up? I’m usually very patient with roses! We’ve just moved into new home and trying to hide a neighbors ugly!!
Hi, I wouldn't trim long main stems on your climber. Keep them as long as your climber wants them to be. Those long canes won't produce many blooms first year. Only next year many lateral shoots will grow from your long main canes. And they will bloom for you. Try to keep those main canes as lateral as you can. And patience, your roses will reward you with great flowers.
Hi Olga, having watched your excellent video, I now understand what I should have been doing with my Arthur Bell Climbing Rose. Unfortunately, last year (it's a few years old) I cut the main stems down to about 3 foot. I got one flush of blooms in April, nothing since. I now know I shouldn't have cut those stems back. Please can you advise what I should do? Should I cut them all to the ground and wait for new ones now to start the process over again? Thank you
Hi, thank you for such great info! I was wondering about the timing of training a climber’s main cane. It looks like you sort of let it grow nice and long without tying it to the trellis. I was training my main canes right away on the trellis when they were much shorter (though I have an Eden climber which may be shorter?) Is it safe to say you shouldn’t train the main cane onto the trellis until the second spring? Thanks!
This video was a great way to refresh some things in my mind. I only started gardening 3 years ago and last year I already learned something through Paul T's world and Fraser Valley Rose Farm. But I guess I actually learn by taking it into practice. I have a question though. We are going to move house in two days. And early next week we are going to dig up and move some plants from our current garden. Including a climbing rose in her third year. Do I trim her back when moving, or leave her stems be? Her new place will be a sunny spot horizontally along a wooden fence. Last fall I transplanted her over to a new spot (before we decided to move house) and needed to prune her back, because she blew over. After that I made a temporarily wall support from bamboo canes. What to do this year?
You definitely want the size of that root ball to be able to support all the growth on top. Trim it. And I would sacrifice cane length. You don't need to cut it to the size of plants coming from the garden center. A bit bigger, good watering schedule, patience and your climber will rejuvenate in time.
@@OlgaCarmody thanks a lot🙏🏻 How long should I trim the canes back? The last year's canes are having some long side shoots with leaves. Trim those back to or fully?
@@titiaswildlifecottagegarden I would shorten main canes to 2-3 feet and trim all the laterals to 4 buds...Your rose will behave like a shrub this year, in the middle of summer it will start producing new long canes, keep those.
Thank you olga. May I ask what happens to the long canes If we have cut them accidently please? Do we have to wait for more canes to be produced before we get flowers? Xx
Yes, if we cut those long canes, we will get some flowers on lateral shoots coming from that short stem. If you give your rose good fertilization during summer, rose will be able to break some basal shoots, which will grow into beautiful long canes. And then, next year, those long canes will produce lateral stems and bloom.
@@OlgaCarmody lovely, thank you olga. I chopped all main canes off as I needed to get the rose off an obelisk in a pot and it was very tangled up. I will be patient this year. Thank you for your help x
I made a mistake! I pruned my climbing rose before watching this video :( It's starting its third year so there was not much to prune. The three main shoots are between 1m and 2m long. I stupidly took off the tip of the main shoots, thinking that it would encourage more branching out like you would to with a shrub. Is it possible to let the last side shoot at the end of the main shoot take over? I need more length on the plant because I can't train them very horizontally yet.
I am looking to make an arbor with the pilgrim on one side and teasing georgia on the other ,to where they meet in the middlle at top ,hopefully. How wide should I make my arbor ,they suggest 6-8' for horizontal growth ,but not much on arbor for vertical growth ,also do weave them back and forth to try and get more lateral branching ,so confusing
I would recommend a structure of no more than 9 feet. Those climbers are medium climbers and you want them to meet in the middle on top. If you want to train them in zigzag motion, back and forth, to get blooms at the bottom, I would recommend even shorter structure - 8 feet high. And you can always shorten long main stems if they are too long.
Thanks for the video Olga. Do you fertilize when you trim in the summer? Or wait until later in the summer? I am using an alfalfa meal and top dress the soil. I had good luck with it last year but would like to time fertilizing for best blooms.
I’m curious why everyone that prunes never throws old stuff straight into a trash can and always straight to ground? Wouldn’t it be one less step to have trash can there from beginning?
I have a one year old new dawn climber I'm training up a pergola. Can I trim a few inches off the end of the main canes? They look dead and dried out. Thank you!
Yes, I just pruned my big climber on the fence in the front of the house and those stems were dead at the end. Just trim those dead tissues out. They are not going to produce anything this season. Happy gardening!
You are in the same zone as me. So, we should do fertilization twice a year: yearly spring, and time, when first flush of blooms is finished, just right now. Good luck!
WOW! Thank you for the incredible information! I have one question for you....what if I did not "bend" the shoots for the first 2 years, is it too late or if they are still bendable, can I still do it this spring? How long do you leave them bent, one or two years?
You can bend those main long canes any time, as long as they are not too thick and stiff, which eventually happens with big climbers with age. How long do you leave them? Till they get old and you cut them out. Remember, roses are not trees, their stems are not super permanent. Most climbing roses have their canes in productive stage for 3-5 years. Then they become old, and it is your job to cut them out. Hope it helps!
@@OlgaCarmody Thank you for the information. I was wondering how long to you leave them bent? Just over the winter or do you leave them bent for a few years?
@@OlgaCarmody sadly I live in zone 5b, cold and short summers, Ontario Canada. *Your videos just brought my confidence and LoVe of roses to a whole new level, and I can not even begin to tell you how grateful I am for you videos!!*
I would go for very hardy and disease resistant varieties, proven by time and reviews of many rosarians. "Above and Beyond", Dublin Bay, New Dawn, Eden, Alberic Barbier, Bathsheba... Just some of choices for you.
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Olga this is the best video I have watched on climbing roses, you are so informative and you have a very soothing voice so much so that i take more notice of what you are saying 😊 Your garden is beautiful, especially your roses. I have subscribed to your channel today and will be looking forward to seeing your future videos. All my thoughts are with you and your family. Sending much love from Liverpool UK ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for your lovely message! Welcome to my channel and I look forward to a new garden year!
Much love from Stoke-on-Trent, UK 😊
This is the best video on pruning climbing roses I have ever watched and I've watched a lot. It also answered many questions about issues I've been having with ffew blooms and shaping the plant. So informative. Good camera angles. So glad you took the time to make an excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Thank you Olga! From your video I learned that I am trimming my Generous Gardeners a few years early and probably removed some main canes thinking they were blind shoots because they didn’t have any buds.
I’m now realizing I’ve been scared to prune my roses properly for the last 6 years 😮. Will be bolder now with your detailed explanations of why and how to prune ❤
Great detailed video on climbing rose pruning!
Thank you!
Thanks Olga for explaining the journey of the plant and it's pruning needs.
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge about roses. I'm a beginner in growing climbing roses and this video helped me a lot!
Glad it was helpful, Biljana!
Wow! Best rose pruning videos I've ever seen. I grow dozens of David Austin's too❤
Very informative. Definitely better explained than other commercial growers. Thank you!
Wow just a beautiful rose
Your videos are so informative. Waiting for my climbing roses to arrive. Will be planting them in Oct.
Have a nice time in your garden planting your roses!
Спасибо за разъяснение. В Калифорнии я делаю серьезную обрезку роз в декабре.
У меня 127 роз в саду растет.
Another lovely video, Olga! Can't wait until it blooms again this year! And I'm so glad you were able to replace your camera already! 🥰💗
Yes, folks came through and I was able to buy that camera after all! Thank you!
Great video on a somewhat confusing topic. You explained pruning a climber very well. Thank-you!
Olga, your such a wealth of information I really appreciate you taking the time to explain each step unlike any other people.Thank you 🕊️
thank you, my pleasure!
Thank you Olga. I'm a beginner and learn lots of things about the roses from you
You are welcome, Suresh! Enjoy!
thank you for the clear explanations an details. I ve been pruning roses for years with out really understanding very well, even after watching many gardening shows. Your videos are so helpful!!
You are always welcome!
well done, Olga!!!
Well done, girlfriend! I'm so excited to see those beautiful pink blooms again. I had to transplant my Generous Gardener, and my New Dawn rose to the back fence and out from under the shade tree that grew over their arbor. I'm happy to say they both have survived the move and are looking healthy. I doubt I will get very many blooms this year, so I will enjoy seeing yours.
How old is your New Dawn? I see some gardeners have New Dawn behaving as a big shrub… Mine are super babies. Glad your roses survived the move!
@@OlgaCarmody my New Dawn and my Generous Gardener are both 5 years old. I had them on each side of a very large arbor my hubby built for me. They both grew up and over and covered that arbor in pink blooms! No, not a shrub at all. Although I’m sure it would be happy as a shrub if I decided to make it into one.
Thank you for your wonderful teaching. I think I now understand how to train a climbing rose. I planted Wollerton Old Hall last year and so happy to understand a climbing rose. Love your you tubes!!
Wonderful! I am glad you will be able to trim your climbers and enjoy them!
Thank you so much. I have learned so much today! Love your channel Olga ❤️❤️
You are so welcome, Vicki! All that knowledge will help you to enjoy your garden.
Thank you for your very informative video! Now I understand and know better how to take care of my roses! Regards from Sweden
Thank you for explaining so well, how to trim my generous garden rose. I finally understand now. 🥰
Now I just have to figure out how to protect the canes for our Minnesota zone 4 winters 😬
Thank you so much for this!!! I was worried about my Eden! I haven’t had a bloom and I got it fall 2022, have not prune it ever
But this year I’ll be getting an arch and I’ll be trialing. Hopefully I can get one bloom 🩷
Thank you for breaking it down for us beginners.
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic video, thankyou for explaining everything so well
My pleasure!
Thankyou for explaining everything clearly. You have a beautiful rose
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you your videos are excellent ,very helpful,I enjoyed watching you and learning how to trim my roses for beautiful blooms
Aww, you are so welcome! Enjoy your garden!
Hi Olga… thank you so much for this video. When I was in hospital in midsummer, my lovely daughter stayed and surprised me with a garden tidy up. Unfortunately, she gave my prized and beloved Eden climbing roses a ‘trim’ that were half way to covering an arch. She pruned off the leaders 😢 and I’m hoping that you can tell me that I can still get the luscious arch I’ve dreamed about all my life 😂. They were doing so beautifully and the arch is about 2-3 metres long which enabled me to grow them horizontally, and it was blooming like crazy in its first year of me planting it! It responded well to worm tea. I know she meant well, but I’m gutted. What can I do?
Very nice and informative video, thanks Olga.
Yes!! Yes! Thank you so much!!
You are so welcome!
A very informative video. Thank you! I’ve just planted 2 Generous Gardener climbers on a very tall arch, and just hoping that when the time comes to prune them I’ll be able to reach the top!
GG is quite vigorous, enjoy its show!
Thank you for sharing 🌿
My pleasure!
Hi Olga- this was the best tutorial video on climbing roses I've seen in years! Question for you. I put in two climbers last year. The main stems have been damaged by snowfall so I trimmed the main cane to about 2 feet off the ground. What now? Should I trim to the ground and hope it produces a new main cane? I would hate for my climbers to become "shrubby"- Any advice welcomed.
Job well done! 😊
Another lovely Informative video. Thank you so much
You are so welcome!
Great help for me, thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Hi Olga,
Thank you for all of your wonderful videos. I recently repot my new climbers (about a year old). Each of them has only one main stem, but both stems are now having the “dead head”, similar to those heads that don’t produce flowers. Should I cut them off for the roses to produce new main canes? Or should I leave them alone? One rose are having lateral canes growing strongly from that stopped growing main cane.
Dearest Olga- wonderful knowledge and thank you for sharing!
I’ve an odd question for you about a Don Juan climber that I planted in April of this year. All of my newly planted have blessed me with at least 1 bloom. My DJ is growing beautiful foliage but not one bloom. I’ve pruned slightly to the nearest 5 leaf on the shoots to be sure they are not blind. I’ve given him a nice drink of more bloom. Nothing!
It does not appear to be root stock. How long should I give this climber before giving up?
I’m usually very patient with roses! We’ve just moved into new home and trying to hide a neighbors ugly!!
Hi, I wouldn't trim long main stems on your climber. Keep them as long as your climber wants them to be. Those long canes won't produce many blooms first year. Only next year many lateral shoots will grow from your long main canes. And they will bloom for you. Try to keep those main canes as lateral as you can. And patience, your roses will reward you with great flowers.
Great video 😊
Hi Olga, having watched your excellent video, I now understand what I should have been doing with my Arthur Bell Climbing Rose. Unfortunately, last year (it's a few years old) I cut the main stems down to about 3 foot. I got one flush of blooms in April, nothing since. I now know I shouldn't have cut those stems back. Please can you advise what I should do? Should I cut them all to the ground and wait for new ones now to start the process over again? Thank you
Great video 😊 🌈
Thank you 🤗
Very helpful!
Hi, thank you for such great info! I was wondering about the timing of training a climber’s main cane. It looks like you sort of let it grow nice and long without tying it to the trellis. I was training my main canes right away on the trellis when they were much shorter (though I have an Eden climber which may be shorter?)
Is it safe to say you shouldn’t train the main cane onto the trellis until the second spring?
Thanks!
Good question, I will make a video about it. Stay tuned.
This video was a great way to refresh some things in my mind. I only started gardening 3 years ago and last year I already learned something through Paul T's world and Fraser Valley Rose Farm. But I guess I actually learn by taking it into practice.
I have a question though. We are going to move house in two days. And early next week we are going to dig up and move some plants from our current garden. Including a climbing rose in her third year. Do I trim her back when moving, or leave her stems be? Her new place will be a sunny spot horizontally along a wooden fence.
Last fall I transplanted her over to a new spot (before we decided to move house) and needed to prune her back, because she blew over. After that I made a temporarily wall support from bamboo canes. What to do this year?
You definitely want the size of that root ball to be able to support all the growth on top. Trim it. And I would sacrifice cane length. You don't need to cut it to the size of plants coming from the garden center. A bit bigger, good watering schedule, patience and your climber will rejuvenate in time.
@@OlgaCarmody thanks a lot🙏🏻 How long should I trim the canes back? The last year's canes are having some long side shoots with leaves. Trim those back to or fully?
@@titiaswildlifecottagegarden I would shorten main canes to 2-3 feet and trim all the laterals to 4 buds...Your rose will behave like a shrub this year, in the middle of summer it will start producing new long canes, keep those.
@@OlgaCarmody thank you🙏🏻❤️🌹
Olga, where did you get the trellis arch? thx
On the top what are you cutting and how do you know what to cut up there?? Thanks for another video!!!
I am shortening all the lateral shoots coming from the main stems. Hope it helps. Thanks.
Thank you olga. May I ask what happens to the long canes If we have cut them accidently please? Do we have to wait for more canes to be produced before we get flowers? Xx
Yes, if we cut those long canes, we will get some flowers on lateral shoots coming from that short stem. If you give your rose good fertilization during summer, rose will be able to break some basal shoots, which will grow into beautiful long canes. And then, next year, those long canes will produce lateral stems and bloom.
@@OlgaCarmody lovely, thank you olga. I chopped all main canes off as I needed to get the rose off an obelisk in a pot and it was very tangled up. I will be patient this year. Thank you for your help x
I made a mistake! I pruned my climbing rose before watching this video :(
It's starting its third year so there was not much to prune. The three main shoots are between 1m and 2m long. I stupidly took off the tip of the main shoots, thinking that it would encourage more branching out like you would to with a shrub. Is it possible to let the last side shoot at the end of the main shoot take over? I need more length on the plant because I can't train them very horizontally yet.
If I trimmed the main canes on a climber will it recover or should I dig it up and start over? Thanks so much for your videos. I’m learning a lot. 💙
You really can't kill a rose with trimming mistakes. Don't dig it up, just leave it alone and correct next year. Happy gardening!
How do I know if its a climbing rose that I have in my garden 🤔
I am looking to make an arbor with the pilgrim on one side and teasing georgia on the other ,to where they meet in the middlle at top ,hopefully. How wide should I make my arbor ,they suggest 6-8' for horizontal growth ,but not much on arbor for vertical growth ,also do weave them back and forth to try and get more lateral branching ,so confusing
I would recommend a structure of no more than 9 feet. Those climbers are medium climbers and you want them to meet in the middle on top. If you want to train them in zigzag motion, back and forth, to get blooms at the bottom, I would recommend even shorter structure - 8 feet high. And you can always shorten long main stems if they are too long.
Thanks for the video Olga. Do you fertilize when you trim in the summer? Or wait until later in the summer? I am using an alfalfa meal and top dress the soil. I had good luck with it last year but would like to time fertilizing for best blooms.
I fertilize right after I finish all the pruning. Once in early spring and then second time after the end of first blooms. Hope it helps.
I’m curious why everyone that prunes never throws old stuff straight into a trash can and always straight to ground? Wouldn’t it be one less step to have trash can there from beginning?
You know, we focus so much on pruning that the extra step to put sticks into the trash can is just too much. Thanks!
When do you take off all the leaves? In the fall or in the spring before or after last frost?
I take leaves in spring, before growth begins.
I have a one year old new dawn climber I'm training up a pergola. Can I trim a few inches off the end of the main canes? They look dead and dried out. Thank you!
Yes, I just pruned my big climber on the fence in the front of the house and those stems were dead at the end. Just trim those dead tissues out. They are not going to produce anything this season. Happy gardening!
@@OlgaCarmody Thank you!
Do you get snow?
do you fertilize climbing roses? when is the best time to do it? Portage, MI zone 6
You are in the same zone as me. So, we should do fertilization twice a year: yearly spring, and time, when first flush of blooms is finished, just right now. Good luck!
WOW! Thank you for the incredible information! I have one question for you....what if I did not "bend" the shoots for the first 2 years, is it too late or if they are still bendable, can I still do it this spring? How long do you leave them bent, one or two years?
You can bend those main long canes any time, as long as they are not too thick and stiff, which eventually happens with big climbers with age. How long do you leave them? Till they get old and you cut them out. Remember, roses are not trees, their stems are not super permanent. Most climbing roses have their canes in productive stage for 3-5 years. Then they become old, and it is your job to cut them out. Hope it helps!
@@OlgaCarmody Thank you for the information. I was wondering how long to you leave them bent? Just over the winter or do you leave them bent for a few years?
@@ZukiGrL1 I leave them bent year-round. Well, some rosarians in cold areas take climbing canes down for winter. Nor sure where you garden...
@@OlgaCarmody sadly I live in zone 5b, cold and short summers, Ontario Canada. *Your videos just brought my confidence and LoVe of roses to a whole new level, and I can not even begin to tell you how grateful I am for you videos!!*
Feel good job well done ! Lol 😉
If one wanted to start a climbing rose is there any particular variety you would recommend?
I would go for very hardy and disease resistant varieties, proven by time and reviews of many rosarians. "Above and Beyond", Dublin Bay, New Dawn, Eden, Alberic Barbier, Bathsheba... Just some of choices for you.
When is the best time to prune climbing roses?
Spring is the best time
Informative but after a few min. she gets out of breath and that's is bothersome to listen to.