More rose pruning today. I’m systemically going round all our shrub roses, removing all the dead/diseased and any stems crossing each other causing congestion. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening Before After - ThreadSky

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stuartbourne.bsky.social • 1 day ago

More rose pruning today. I’m systemically going round all our shrub roses, removing all the dead/diseased and any stems crossing each other causing congestion.

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stuartbourne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Removing crossing stems is very important to stop the damaged caused by rubbing you can see below. This damage will allow more disease into the stems, killing them off.

stuartbourne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also have been using the staggered pruning technique, where you prune the roses higher as you move back further into the bed. This allows more flowers to be seen by those walking past.

gabbylawless.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do shrub roses need to be cut back the same way? It would seem impossible.

stuartbourne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Depends on the specific shrub rose. Species ones generally should be left alone and only managed. But modern shrub roses can be pruned by third to keep them contained.

Our ones growing intensely so if we didn’t reduce their height they would take over and be one big mass of thorns.

gabbylawless.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you! I have some Knock-Out shrubs that are really, really big. I did not expect such a large plant, I must cut them back.

poppyphlox.bsky.social•9 hours ago

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