How Do You Prune Climbing Miniature Roses?
• Remove dead or dying shoots from the start. Cut back dead or dying shoots to the healthy wood. All other shoots must be treated as follows. • Keep long, strong shoots that have as much length as possible. On rose bushes, these are shoots that you would target for removal. For climbing miniature roses, however, these shoots remain important for continued climbing growth. Remove only the tips of these growing shoots. • Tie the long shoots to the trellis or framework against which the miniature climbing rose is growing. Fanning out long shoots is best done when the shoots are young and green (and therefore more pliable). • Keep new shoots in preference to old ones. Cut back and shorten flowering shoots that have grown along the length of the previous year’s branches. When doing this, leave one or two buds of the thinnest shoots. The rest can be removed. Trim strong shoots carefully. These can, in the main, be kept. Tie these shoots back into the framework regularly to encourage growth i
