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    Climbing roses

    How close to the ground can I cut back a climbing rose? It's fallen away from its support and just flopping around on the ground. It's about 14ft long and about 3ft wide so I would really like to butcher it before attempting to re attach it to the wall.
    It's probably the wrong time of year to butcher roses but it's at a holiday cottage so it can't stay where it is until the time is right for pruning. So how brutal can I be? Can I take it back to 2-3ft ?
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    When I've read before about pruning mine, they tend to say 2/3 of the plant but concentrate first on older growth first and any diseased, leave and new growth as much as possible and 1/3 off other stems.
    If you take it back too much you may halt flowers for next yr.
    Not sure if is helps.
    Northern England.

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    • #3
      Ive got a climbing rose, that too was a similar size to yours last year and it "fell" off its arch . I cut it back to about 3ft and some thicker branches I cut right back to ground. It's looking happy, with about 5 stems reshooting. I think if it's well established go for it

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      • #4
        Thanks I will go sharpen my weapons.

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        • #5
          It's going to take a few years to regrow back to anything like its former size. Why not just saw out any really old thick woody stems from the base, and with the help of 1 or 2 others, re-attach the remainder, stem by stem, back to its support.
          Last edited by bend1pa; 01-05-2016, 10:13 PM.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by bend1pa View Post
            It's going to take a few years to regrow back to anything like its former size. Why not just saw out any really old thick woody stems from the base, and with the help of 1 or 2 others, re-attach the remainder, stem by stem, back to its support.
            To late already butchered . I know it's going to take a long time to come back but that's not a problem. Finding 2 or 3 people to help would of been a problem ( no one wants to work with roses they bite).

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            • #7
              give it a good feed as the leaved will provide a lot of the nutrients and you've just cut a good chunk of that off.
              ntg
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