Quizzes & Puzzles4 mins ago
When To Dead Head Roses.
9 Answers
I am a rookie gardener and have a bright red climbing rose which has been a picture this year. All flowering is now over and I was going to dead head the plant but find there are 100's of rose hips where the flowers once were.
Do I go ahead or not and what do I do with the rosehips?
Do I go ahead or not and what do I do with the rosehips?
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by devadiva. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Make agreat tea ut of the hips... tastes pretty good and loaded with Vitamin C. However, you really don't have to deadhead this type of rose. Most "climbing roses" (they don't really vine type "climb") only bloom once perseason and the purpose for deadheading any flower is to encourage re-blooming... won't work with climbers... Secondly, leaving the bright yellow hips will feed some birds in the winter...
Having said all that... you may wish to "train" the rose by selectively pruning it after it goes dormant. My guess is the flowers on your rose are 4 or 5 petals which makes it a "wild rose" derivative. Very hardy and will cover a bare wall very well if pruned and tied up where you want it to go.
By the way, the Vitamin C in the hips degrades fairly quickly... best to keep it in a plastic bag in the fridge and then only fora fewweeks at most...
Having said all that... you may wish to "train" the rose by selectively pruning it after it goes dormant. My guess is the flowers on your rose are 4 or 5 petals which makes it a "wild rose" derivative. Very hardy and will cover a bare wall very well if pruned and tied up where you want it to go.
By the way, the Vitamin C in the hips degrades fairly quickly... best to keep it in a plastic bag in the fridge and then only fora fewweeks at most...