Standard roses really bring the magnificent blooms of this flower into focus. This is why standard roses are particularly suitable as solitaires, so that they can develop their full effect. Like all roses, high stems must be pruned regularly to maintain their beauty. Our instructions will tell you how best to do this.
A rose trunk does not have to be raised to become a trunk
How to properly prune standard roses?
Standard roses are by no means a separate class of roses that need any special pruning, but simply bed or shrub roses grafted onto a stem. For this reason, rose stems are pruned exactly as one would pruning the grafted variety in the form of a low rose bush.
Cut rose stem
Between the end of March and the beginning of April, most high-stem roses are pruned back to one or two eyes, as is the case with bed roses, only soft-shooting varieties are only thinned out. When cutting, make sure that the shape of the crown becomes round and compact. To do this, cut the side shoots a little shorter than the middle shoots. Also remove the weaker part of crossing shoots and severely shorten weak and thin branches or cut them back to the base.
Pruning mourning and cascade roses
You should not prune cascade roses at all for the first three to four years (except, of course, to remove diseased or frozen shoots in spring). After that, the pruning is done less hard in order to preserve the trailing growth character of the crown. To do this, leave the strong shoots that form the basic structure and only shorten the side shoots to one or two eyes. Note that repeat-flowering varieties are pruned differently than once-flowering ones! Basically, you cut those that bloom more often like climbing roses, those that bloom once are simply pruned out after flowering.
Important when cutting: hygiene
Good hygiene practices can limit the spread of diseases like rose rust and blackspot. Trimmings should not be composted or shredded; it is also better not to leave the leftovers on the beds. only use clean and sharp cutting tools and disinfect the rose scissors with alcohol from time to time.
tips
In the case of rose stems grafted with rose varieties that bloom more often, faded shoots should also be removed in summer to encourage the development of more flowers. You can prevent a pause in flowering after the first bloom in June with the so-called pinching, in which up to a third of the shoots with flower buds are removed.