If your roses are looking a little worse for wear recently, there’s an easy solution for keeping them blooming time and time again with beautiful, vibrant flowers. Gardening expert Adam Kirtland, known as View From The Potting Bench on TikTok, urged gardeners to perform one very important task immediately to keep roses happy and blooming for longer.
In a recent video, Adam explained the important task every rose gardener should be doing now is pruning. By carrying this task out now, your roses will continue to grow back bigger and better than before. Adam said: “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 found that your roses have turned an unwanted shade of brown, losing their vibrancy, Adam explained that it’s now or never to fix the issue. In this case, you’ll need to give the roses a proper pruning.
He emphasised that pruning can be a daunting task, but it’s not as difficult as it may appear.
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 seamlessly fall away.
Adam explained that the flowers you want to avoid pruning are the ones with “firm” bloomed flowers.
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.”