Comments on: Trimming/Harvesting Roses http://squarefootgardeningtips.com/blog/2006/06/26/trimmingharvesting-roses/ Gardening Tips for Square Foot Gardening; Container Gardening & Small Space Gardening Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:44:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lynn http://squarefootgardeningtips.com/blog/2006/06/26/trimmingharvesting-roses/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Lynn Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:46:01 +0000 http://squarefootgardeningtips.com/blog/?p=42#comment-5 Hi there ! I saw an article yesterday in the April 06 issue of Better Homes & Gardens re pruning roses. The blurb is as follows: Deadhead at the Neck A rose trial conducted at the Royal National Rose Society gardens in England demonstrated how rose deadheading radically effects its rebloom. If it is clipped off at the neck, rather than cut back to the first leaf bearing five leaflets, as rose widsdom once dicted, the bush reblooms sooner, with 50 percent more flowers over the season. I've been pruning a couple of my bushes this way because I have so many blooms on a single stem. It seems to work really well ! FYI. Hi there !
I saw an article yesterday in the April 06 issue of Better Homes & Gardens re pruning roses. The blurb is as follows:

Deadhead at the Neck
A rose trial conducted at the Royal National Rose Society gardens in England demonstrated how rose deadheading radically effects its rebloom. If it is clipped off at the neck, rather than cut back to the first leaf bearing five leaflets, as rose widsdom once dicted, the bush reblooms sooner, with 50 percent more flowers over the season.

I’ve been pruning a couple of my bushes this way because I have so many blooms on a single stem. It seems to work really well ! FYI.

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