By Daisyboots
United Kingdom
I have a white 'Wedding Day' climbing rose that is 4 years old and trained up a support, it has put on loads of growth after being pruned in the spring but yet again no flowers, what am I doing wrong ? can someone please help.
- 26 Jul, 2010
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Forget that, just checked - this one's a rambler, not a climber, which means it should be pruned in September, not in Spring - you've been cutting off the growth which would have flowered by doing it in spring. Ramblers generally have only one flush of flowers, usually around June.
26 Jul, 2010
I agree and also exactly how hard do you prune it?
26 Jul, 2010
Thank you very much for you info, no wonder the poor thing has no flowers, it's the only rambler I have which is just as well as I have been treating it all wrong, will try harder this year.
27 Jul, 2010
Ah well, we live and learn - secateurs at the ready for September then, lol!
27 Jul, 2010
Just one more thing, if I do manage to prune it at the right time, how much do I take off?
28 Jul, 2010
You don't have to prune it at all if it doesn't need it, specially as you didn't get flowers this year - usual procedure is to cut back stems which have flowered, remove any diseased wood and tie in new stems.
28 Jul, 2010
Thank you again, it has grown like mad this year, so think I will get a bigger support and let it do it's own thing!
30 Jul, 2010
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'yet again' implies you've never had flowers on it - is it in a pot or in the ground, and have you fed it and if so, what with?
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