The 'bonsai' design for climbing roses

National Gardening - The Name Gardeners Trust for flowers, houseplants, composting, greenhouses, landscaping, gardens, and horticulture Train main branches to grow as horizontally as possible. How you do this varies with your situation. Imagine the arching canes of a climbing rose along a split-rail fence; canes arching in this fashion produce many more flowers than canes growing straight up.

On Pruning Climbers

Pruning Climbers: Don't prune any climber, except to remove dead or broken branches, for two or three years. That's enough time for the plant to develop strong branches that can produce flowers for many years.

Pete, your rose needs the new shoots at the bottom cut away in April or so: "Never give a sucker an even break. Suckers are vigorous canes growing from the rootstock below the graft union on grafted roses. Cut these off to the main stem, even if you have to dig away some soil to get to them."

"Pruning has four main goals: remove dead twigs and branches; remove weak, damaged, and useless branches; open the plant to improve air circulation; and create an attractive shape."

Hey Dad, I saw in the flower book you gave me there is a lot of information on both Climbers and Cottage Gardens. I can't wait to dig in!!

In the meantime, check this site out. It won an award in 2002. National Gardening - The Name Gardeners Trust for flowers, houseplants, composting, greenhouses, landscaping, gardens, and horticulture Prune roses in early spring, before new growth starts

Christmas for the Cardinals

Ahhh the "blizzard" of snow and rain and sleet and slush has completed. the sky is blue and the sun shining bright. The woodland birds were a bit disappointed to discover their feeder had blown off the post. Only the grey squirrels seemed able to dig into the snow for buried sunflower seeds. The finch feeder had been emptied a day or so ago. Though Christmas may have passed us, it was "Christmas for the blue jays, cardinals, juncos, and titmice this morning! I scattered a fine blend of finch favoring food that had everything from sunflower chips to thistle seed! Oh happy day!

Hey, haven't seen blogs of note list yet, but finally found us in freshly posted. it's no big deal, just a first-time thing.

Have you considered that a photo journal of people passing by is it's own type of garden? --kate quarlo -- photos -- new york city

winter birds new to windsor list - red bellied woodpecker!

Merry christmas!! Season's Greetings!!

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