Dead heading

Hi everyone I have seen as an experiment 120 Roses in a bed pruned in March with a Hedge trimmer,with supprising results? :dh:

 

Hi Pal Yes:hehe: We are advised to "deadhead" regularly--that is, to remove the spent blossoms just above the first five leaflet leaf. Occasionally we find a reference that advises removing the spent blossoms at a three leaflet leaf after the first spring flush, the reason being to conserve foliage needed by the plant for photosynthesis.:thumb:
But Mary Beth Martin's brain worked--she dead-headed way up the stem, right below the bloom. So did Frances Nixon with her old garden roses--the spent blooms were removed right at the neck. :thumb:

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When you are deadheading your roses, do you cut down to the first set of five leaflets? The current advice from experimental gardens in the RNRS (Royal National Rose Society) headquarters at St. Albans is to nip off the dead flower just at the neck. That will promote immediate growth and a quicker return to flowering. The only sufferers in this will be the exhibitors who will go their own way anyway. After all, if you can't believe yourself, who can you believe?:hehe:

Is it time to question the traditional way of deadheading roses?

Pruning to a five-leaflet leaf is not always necessary. The "just remove the flower and leave all the foliage" treatment produces more basal breaks and faster healthy regrowth than does traditional deadheading.:thumb:

 

Hi Lollipop Yes I tried just once when I was at Cobham hall,The only problem I encountered was in the late spring they all grew at different heights,and I spent the rest of the summer leveling them up:dh:But otherwise than that nothing was any different