How to trim the roses

Beautiful roses – a consequence of a good care of them. The climate of the region puts us in the need to cover roses for winter, while spending two times cutting procedure in a year: in the fall, before their cover, protected from the cold, and before the bud blossoming spring. In summer, cut just wilted flowers (cut sheet only, which lamina 5). Late pruning roses – the reason for their slow growth.

Pruning roses roses, general rules

In order to roses on stems not attacked by an infection, you need to carefully hone the scissors or knife to beat the cut smooth and unwrinkled. The cut should be done at an angle, about 5 mm above the bud, long distance will produce infection to infection, and short – kidney damage.

Branches of roses cut to healthy wood, its white core.

If the kidney grow multiple shoots, you need to choose the most beautiful and sturdy stem, and the other – cut.

Observing the rules of cutting roses, you will not only do plant aesthetically perfect, but also resistant to diseases in the cold season.

Spring pruning roses

In the spring it is time to release the rose from the winter shelter, but only when you are sure of favorable weather conditions. Then you need to trim the bushes, giving them a shape that is characteristic of a particular plant variety. In the spring it is necessary to carry out thinning shrubs and shortening (minting) shoots.

Priority pruning roses in the spring. At the base of rose bushes need to discard the soil, to free it from weeds and wild plants and figuratively covered with soil. Shoots, which have a dark color and look shriveled, should be cut, leaving only healthy wood. Too weak for the type of thread to be circumcised too.

Autumn pruning roses

Before the shelter rose from the cold, you need to also release the plant to make pruning roses fall to the winter, they feel good. Therefore it is necessary to cut off those parts of the plant:

• Shoots that are not ripe (not covered with wood).
• Damaged shoots.
• Shoots dark or mold.
• Withered flowers.
• Leaves that have not fallen down in autumn.

What is left after such a “clean”, it is necessary to scrape out of the bush, leaving not a speck of dust, and burned. You can then cover the bushes. If sprouts are too long, they should bend (or shorten) and hide.