If your roses are looking a bit under the weather lately, there’s a simple solution to keep them blooming repeatedly with vibrant, beautiful flowers. Gardening guru Adam Kirtland, known as View From The Potting Bench on TikTok, has urged gardeners to carry out one crucial task immediately to ensure their roses stay happy and bloom for longer.
In a recent video, Adam highlighted that the essential task every rose gardener should be doing right now is pruning. By undertaking this task at this time, your roses will continue to grow back larger and better than before.
Adam stated: “If you want more roses and longer blooms, then start doing this. Right about now your roses could be looking brown and crispy like this. It’s not a bad thing, but there is something that you can do about it.”
If you’ve noticed that your roses have turned an undesirable shade of brown, losing their vibrancy, Adam explained that it’s now or never to rectify the issue. In this situation, you’ll need to give the roses a proper pruning.
He stressed that pruning can seem like a daunting task, but it’s not as challenging as it might seem.
Adam said: “When a rose finishes blooming, it starts to put its energy into creating seeds rather than more flowers. But if you snip those blooms off in the right way, you’ll have more flowers than you’ve ever had before.”
You’ll be able to identify which flowers are ready for deadheading when they’re touched and the petals effortlessly fall away.
Adam explained that the flowers you want to avoid pruning are the ones with “firm” bloomed flowers.
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Roses with a few crispy petals can be deadheaded, but it’s entirely your choice. Adam said: “But there is a right and a wrong way to do it. So get ready, because I’m going to show you how.
“To make this super clear, I’ve cut a section of the plant off to show you exactly where you should be cutting.
“Roses have flowers and buds at the top, then they have sets of three leaves, and then there are sets of five leaves, and that is exactly what we’re looking for.
“Where you’ve got a rose that’s faded or the petals are falling off, you want to follow it all the way back until you cut just above the next set of five leaves, like that.
“Do this little and often right the way throughout summer and you’ll have a rose that blooms for much, much longer.”