Overpruned Rose .

dandelionclock30

I pruned a very old rose today and cut it right down as the stems were all mottled and old looking. I think I've cut it too far down to around 4".
Does anybody know if it will grow back or has it had it?

lostinrates

Leave ot be. It might well recover. Butchers that garden municiple gardens often do the same. One of the great gardens, i cannot remeber which, might be hidvote, i read they rase theirs to the ground every few years.


Its too early though....next year leave it till very early spring or late winter, while thelant is dormant. If it does not come back i would probably consider time of year as well as the extreme prine.

Leif

Early this year I ripped out roses from my garden, digging out the roots as far as possible. Last week while digging, I came across a 1m length of root underground that was sprouting. In other places I've had roses appear, presumably from rootstock I missed. So as said above, leave it be. It probably has a healthy root system with lots of stored up energy.

Soot2006

It should be OK ... I usually prune when the forsythia starts to bloom - some old memory from when I was a child, but it gives me something to go by, lol! I raze them to the ground sometimes, just because I get bored of their shape and want to start again - within 5 months they're massive again ... Hard to get wrong, roses.

wallbash

The Royal National Rose Society
Chiswell Green Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire,

Close to me , did a trial a couple of years ago , on the merits of pruning roses . One of the trials was to cut the roses ( with a chain saw) near the ground . Roses survived , as others have said , Roses are tough.