DEADHEADING ROSES

Deadheading Roses to encourage more blooms by removing withered flowers.  It is essential to do; otherwise, there will be problems.

My Red Rose Bushes in Bloom

Ready for Deadheading

The new looking red rose bushes after deadheaded.

Cleaning up after deadheading roses is another job, it is good to be done straight away.  How good it is when the job was done correctly, a restful afternoon can be a treat.


Here I type for you about deadhead roses according to  Heirloom Roses Blog.
Rose Growing &Care
Deadhead Roses.
If you don't do the deadhead roses, one of two things happen:

1. Flowering stops, if the bloom is pollinated, a hip will develop below the flower and produce seeds.  The hip, in turn, will create a hormone that inhibits bud formation so the rose will have done its job an will wait for another season to bloom.  While we appreciate the beauty of the flower, the orse is really there to help in the transfer of pollen from one plant to another, resulting in seeds.
2. Flowering continues, if you have a repeat-bloomer.  If the flower were not pollinated, the rose would wither, the tip of the stem will dry up, and the bloom falls off.  Most of the time if the rose is a repeat-bloomer, new shoots will be produced so that new flowers develop and perhaps be pollinated before the season ends.

Clean and Neat Looking.  Light pruning and deadheading are
proper.  We shall wait for the second round blooms

Deadheading Roses

1. The traditional method: Prune back to a five-leaflet leaf, cutting at an angle, just above a leaflet facing outward.  This easy if the rose produces them, but some do not.  If that's the case, try the next method.
2. To encourage fewer, but larger, blooms and healthy canes: Cut the stem lower on the bush.
3. To reduce the size of the plant: Cut back to an acceptable height, leaving some foliage on the canes.  It will take a little longer to produce blooms, but the effect may be more pleasing to the eye.
4. To remove a faded flower: Snap the flowers off at the base of the bloom (peduncle), especially after the first flush in the spring or on newly planted roses.

Another row of the red rose bushes need to be done could be tomorrow, and in a week time, other roses have to be attended too.  Lots of work having roses, but they are beautiful.


Tips from the Professionals

1. More foliage results in healthy canes, more basal breaks (the canes that come out of the base of the plant and form the main structure of the plant), and better blooms.
2. Leaves turn sunlight into food.  More food means more flowers.
3. Fertilising does no good without foliage because it is through photosynthesis that the plant manufactures food.
4. Pinching or snapping off the bloom results in smaller flowers because the plant sends new shoots from the leaves near the top of the bush.
5. Disbud shoots that are produced from the leaves at the top of the cane to get more abundant flowers.  This will cause the cane to produce new shoots from further down that will develop into larger canes and bigger blooms.
   (Thank you, Heirloom Roses, for sharing the information)

No more red roses for a while, but still some red colour left in the garden, they are bright red Geranium.  All red flowers have been flowering beautifully, from red orchids, red potted hippeastrum-eighteen stems,  red nasturtium to red roses.  In fact, the twin red crabapple standard trees are fruiting lots this year.  Rich in Red for my garden this year.

I shall enjoy being the lady of leisure this afternoon, I will make the best of it, as it does not happen often.

Such a lovely day, the sun is out and if you are having fresh air and working in the garden instead of holidaying somewhere exciting, Enjoy!  Happy Gardening!


Added, today in the Afternoon.

A pot of herbal tea for everyone, freshly brewed, so special fragrant tea, freshly picked lemon myrtle leaves from the garden.  While I was enjoying the tea and walking around in the backyard, I spotted the red colour among the strawberry plants.  WOW, it's a ripe red strawberry, I could not believe it, I was surprised with excitement.  I must record it, off,  I went to the house to get my camera.  No strawberry patch in the garden, but they grow everywhere as ground covers, as you know the flower is so pretty.  But today, I did not only have pretty white flowers that I could see, but also the fruit, a red strawberry  Another 'Red' colour.  I have to say, Red is Festive.  Early Festivity is Agreeable.

 RED   STRAWBERRY

 The strawberry under the strawberry leaf.
Who knows we may have a lot later.

Until Next Post.
Susy