Growing a Rose Hedge

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[Little Bill]

I have been cultivating a Rose Hedge, the roses are doing well but I need some advice on training and pruning.

[Little Bill]

Roses are weeds and have a mind of their own, how do you train up and out.

[girlangler]

LB,

There is a regular gardening thread on FR, although there haven’t been many threads lately (all those posters are busy harvesting their gardens right now).

However, freepers gardengirl, gabz, and Diana in Wisconsin are three of the many experts that come to mind.

So I’ve pinged them for you. Good luck.

[Little Bill]

THankx

[Drango]

roseanne barr is a nut case. Oops wrong thread.

[truthkeeper]

Let me give you this piece of million-year old rose advice...always clip your blooms just a hair above the crotch of a stem that has 5 leaves. I was told that's what keeps them blooming.

So far it's worked for me.

[devane617]

how about rose.com ibtz if there was ever one

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here’s a good primer on pruning roses:

http://gardening.about.com/od/rose1/a/RosePruning.htm

Treat yourself to a professional-grade pair of hand pruners (I recommend Felco #7) and some leather, to the elbow, rose gloves. ;)

[xmission]

If I understand correctly, you are cutting off the stem with 5 leaves?

[Grizzled Bear]

I have been cultivating a Rose Hedge, the roses are doing well but I need some advice on training and pruning.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now.

It's just a spring-clean for the May Queen.

[Little Bill]

The rule is cut after the bloom,it works most of the time, but I am trying to spread HORIZONTALLY and achieve an interweave any ideas?

[Iowa Granny]

....always clip your blooms just a hair above the crotch of a stem that has 5 leaves. I was told that's what keeps them blooming.

Bill, I believe tk's advice means you would leave those 5 leaves on the stem. By cutting "ABOVE the crotch of a stem that has 5 leaves" it would leave the 5 leaves.

Trithkeeper, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

If you are looking to extend your hedge try this one.

http://www.everyrose.com/EveryRose.lasso?-database=RoseComments.fp3&-layout=detail&-response=%2Feveryrose%2Fcomments%2Fdetail.lasso&ID=922&-search

Paul’s Himalayan Climber. Grows to 30 Feet.

[Little Bill]

I planted eight roses as an experiment. I am looking to grow the plants together and form a hedge, popular in England.

I am planing to prune at 4 feet an hope to spread the plants, as a bush.

I have read about this stuff but have no experience.

[kalee]

I have that rose in a tree in my backyard. Very pretty the way it cascades down, but sadly too short a bloom season.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Making a Rose Hedge

The Antique Rose Emporium, Texas
http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/culture.html

There are two basic types of hedges - formal and informal.

A large, informal hedge can replace a wall or privacy fence, or be used to disguise or soften an existing one. Members of the Shrub rose class, most of the Hybrid Musks, several of the Species roses, and individual varieties from other classes such as the China rose, ‘Mutabilis’, or the Rugosa, ‘Sir Thomas Lipton’ make excellent subjects for an informal hedge. This type of rose planting requires almost no care at all other than the basics of feeding, watering, and removing the occasional dead cane.

Roses can also be used to create a neat, formal, everblooming hedge that offers a great deal more color and interest than the traditional “green mustache” of shrubbery that hides the foundations of many modern houses. The keys to a formal appearance are not in trying to keep the bushes all precisely the same shape (continuous production of new bloom stalks will always make the bushes slightly irregular) and choosing one specific variety rather than trying to mix and match. China and Tea roses are excellent for hedges in the 4 to 6 foot range, with Polyanthas useful at shorter heights.

In order to create a really thick hedge, the rose bushes can be planted in a double row or staggered in zig-zag fashion to maintain appropriate intervals between plants.

If the bushes are pruned back hard the first year or two, they will fill out vigorously with uniform thick growth. After the plants are established, the hedge can be simply sheared to the required height once or twice a year (late February and late August in the South) and left alone to bloom.

[nuconvert]

There’s still time to change the road you’re on

[truthkeeper]

Bill, I believe tk's advice means you would leave those 5 leaves on the stem. By cutting "ABOVE the crotch of a stem that has 5 leaves" it would leave the 5 leaves.

Yes, exactly. After I posted it I realized it didn't sound very clear. Thanks for the input, you said it better than I did.

[truthkeeper]

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now.
It's just a spring-clean for the May Queen.

LOL. For thirty years I have wondered what he was saying...thanks!

[Quilla]

Also, when cutting above the five leaf stem or any noticable new growth, always slat your cut away from the offshoot. (After a while, it will become a habit.) This will prevent water from pocketing in the area and reduce the chance of rot.

[xmission]

I’m afraid I can only give you bad advice on Roses :)

I have about 10 bushes, but I don’t know enough about them to make them anything more than straggly little things. I saw the thread and hoped to be enlightened.

I did get some good advice.