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lol I gotta do something. The poor thing is so over grown and top heavy that if its not tied up it falls over on itself... I have a really nice pare of large clippers, but I'm not so sure that even those are heavy enough to cut through the thickest stalk... I have already taken off the obviously dead wood, but have been afraid to cut back much of the living, as I have NO clue how far to take it back. Do I prune it like a tree and only remove 30%, or can I do a more drastic pruning and remove 1/2 or more...?
Can you tell I have no clue what to do with this rose? lol I had someone that I thought I had hired. Paid them and everything, and they never once touched this rose. But every year I get blooms. All through spring, and into late fall. This plant was still budding out flowers in late december of this past year. Very pretty, medium sized, pink roses. The humming birds LOVE them for some reason.
Also I am not sure if this is supposed to be a bush or a climber... It has nothing to climb onto, so I am guessing it suposed to be a bush, but really its more like a small rose tree.
I would dig it up and put it where it can climb on something. Maybe put it next to the deck. It is still dormant now. It should do just fine.
Alternatively, you can build some kind of gazebo around it, or tarin it to grow on a fence or something. It is no use having to drastically prune it a few times over the growing season. If it is a climber, let it climb.
Thats the thing... I really dont think its a climber... It looks like the typical rose bush that someone bought at rightaid as a bare root plant... You know the ones I'm talking about, they come in those cardboard boxes with some bare stalk poking out through a hole in the top... Just over grown and old. Stands strait up, unless the wind is blowing, if the wind is blowing then it starts to topple over.
I'll take some better pictures when its not pouring rain. Probably tomorrow.
