Deadheading Roses

This may seem like a stupid question, but do you deadhead roses in general? This is my first time, second year, with roses and I really have no idea about them.

I have a Rhapsody in Blue (floribunda), a Sunseeker (patio) and my Oranges & Lemons (floribunda) plus an unidentified supposedly yellow climber but patio sized and deep fuschia pink from Lidl, plus an array of mini roses. I have no problems with the mini roses, I just deadhead them and them bloom and bloom and bloom and only get the occasional yellow leaf. My above mentioned named roses get black spot, yellow leaves, whitefly ... you name it ... and bloom sporadically.

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.

 

Hi LoL, normally I would say I don't dead head. At our last house the garden was very small so I used to prune back the climbing roses rather than dead head to stop them taking over the garden and they all flowered well. The hybrid teas I didn't bother with and they did seem to get a little spindly. Since we moved I have deadheaded the bush roses because they were very spindly and they are thickening up nicely. Can't say that we have had any more flowers on them than before but they are looking healthier so next year may be different. Hope this is helpful?

 

I've found that after flowering,if I cut back to a five leafed growth,the rose gives me a cluster of new buds.Most of my bushes are in fresh bud now.

 

In my experience mini roses are very resistant to allsorts, but tend to weaken off after a few years, and get spindly and unattractive.

You certainly don't have to deadhead, and you might get nice hips if you don't, but it doesn't hurt and some climbers really seem to need it in order to achieve a worthwhile shape. Bit of a large subject - surprised we haven't seen Liz in to the rescue here!

 

I like allsorts, particularly licorice, but some of mine are years old (brought from the UK) and I just chop them back to nada each year and they start again ... lovely little things!

I obviously said something amiss here ... I don't have a climber ... "an unidentified supposedly yellow climber but patio sized and deep fuschia pink from Lidl" ... I'm talking about the "named" varieties above.

Yes, I was expecting Liz but she's obviously busy somewhere ... calling Liz .. calling Liz ...

PS I only had hips with Rosa rugosa in the UK when I lived in Whitchurch, Bucks, 1978-83!

 

I have a mixture of hybrid teas, floribundas, DA roses and climbers and shrub roses. I leave the shrub roses and climbers undead headed for the hips and dead head the rest, as Paladin, down to the first five leaved shoot for more flowers.

 

Pardon for asking .. do all roses have hips? I thought it was just rugosa? :confused:

 

OK Fran what's a DA rose? Pictures of ducks spring to mind.

 

MINE TOO PALADINE, SOON AS YOU DEAD HEAD THEM THE PLANT HAS MORE ENERGY TO PRODUCE MORE BUDS

 

I religeously deadheaded all mine this year and Ive had a wonderful repeat flower with most of them - I cant believe how gorgeous they are even second time round :D :D And Cliff Richards....well!!!!

 

I used to deadhead all of mine too (when I had a garden, in Auld Reekie) and used to chop em down with secateurs to leave them all looking nice and with thoughts to reduce disease potential and what have you. Results were really good but I recently watched a programme where a rose garden (in UK) head gardener just walked around the place pulling all the dead heads off and chucking on the soil.

Mmmm... kinda goes against my original eduction but what the heck... I now do this and it saves a bundle of time albeit the roses don't quite look as attractive as when snipping with the secateurs.

Kind regards
Roy

 

L of L, apparently not all roses have heps or hips but according to the BBC gardeners website some of the best hipsters are to be found at this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plantprofile_rosehip.shtml#recommended_varieties

Kind regards
Roy

 

Celia, my apologies, just lazyiness. DA rose = David Austin rose.

 

Thanks Fran. I bought a David Austen rose last year and it has flowered beautifully this year, we're just into the second flush, can't seem to smell them though.

 

Sad not to have a scent, most of his have , and I must admit, I much prefer roses with scent- though the range of scent is surprising.