Pruning is necessary for the healty growth of roses


To ensure excellent blooming and healthy growth of rose plants year after year, pruning operation is performed. It is the removal of unwanted shoots, buds or flowers from plant to make the plant more vigorous and productive.

While pruning roses, individual requirements of plants and the need for the operation must be clear in ones mind. However, skill in pruning rose plants is acquired by personnel experience and observation. Roses are pruned basically for the following purpose :

Good quality tools are always preferable for rose pruning. The cut in pruning should be clean and made under hygienic conditions. A sharp knife can make the cleanest cut with a slightly hooked blade so that softer bark will yield as clearly as the tougher wood. Secateures are more generally used; unless great care is taken the shoot may suffer bruishing. Good secateures may do a little damage, but blunt and worn pair will bruish the shoot, damaging it and causing it to die back and ultimately death of the plant.

Secateures must be sharp enough to cut the stems smoothly. For removal of suckers and for trimming unwanted or unduly long roots at planting time an efficient pruning knife is also required. Apart from this a long handled prunner or lopping shears are required to prune thick canes or to reach the branches of climbers and tree roses. A pruning saw is also useful in time.

A pair of soft leather gloves needs to supple protection. For cold or moist soil a thick kneeling rubber pad may be required. All the dead and waste material including the pruned shoots should be taken away from beds and burnt so as to remove the source of infection from the garden.

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