David Austin Strawberry Hill Climbing Rose Update & Time Lapse Video of Growth After Pruning

This video is an update to the David Austin Climbing Rose Pruning Video. Take a look at how our rose shaped up from Spring until it's Late June Bloom. Strawberry Hill rose is grown in our zone 5b climate on a cedar arbor and is in its third year of growth. This was a followup video to the first pruning its received since planting. Overall, Im thrilled with the progress but there is more work (and patience) to be done!
Original Pruning How to Video here: • Pruning Your David Aus...

[@madisonutube3524]

OMG, you did great. I planted my climbers early 2023, and I like the idea of the zig zag pattern. Thank you for this video!

[@mayaportland8805]

Thank you for the informative details about this rose and its transformation and resistance to adversity of nature. These details help a lot in taking a decision.

[@jeane561]

The roses are beautiful and I love the arbor design. The birds seem really happy too💗💗💗

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thank you! I love my birds! 😊

[@roundhousekickgirl4512]

I’m in total ahhhhhh with all your gardens! Such a beautiful site!

[@pradnyamarathe2002]

Beautiful roses on a beautiful trellis!

[@rebeccajarman5824]

I love your videos! Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to share your hard work and creativity with us. Always an inspiration 😊🦋🌷

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thank you so much! 😀

[@annamaria54321]

Gorgeous roses!!

[@cathyhatfield5340]

Love your arbor! Good job on the rose Bush👍❤️

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thanks!

[@kimlundquist3475]

Absolutely beautiful

[@gardeningbyheart4912]

I think you've definitely achieved magazine pretty with your 2021 garden. Looking forward to seeing what you do in 2022. Your garden is an inspiration to all of us. God bless.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thank you so much 💕

[@patsyjennings5133]

You have such a lovely garden

[@saraw8503]

Such a pretty color. I have a new dawn rose that I planted this spring. I can’t wait to start training it on my arbor.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

I’ve heard of/seen this Rose! Gorgeous!

[@mrs.m.b.3630]

❤thank you thank you! Just stating some climbers this year and one is Strawberry Hill. I also haven't found much on trimming young climbers and I am so thankful for you taking videos of the stages and how what you did turned out. It's beautiful and breathtaking and getting me even more excited and will help me be patient and have a vision for what I need to do as it grows. ❤

[@Angie-ci1lp]

Beautiful!!!

[@SteveTessLifeUSA]

omg now I know how to train thank you for sharing I love your garden. watching here from Ohio

[@nelidascott6917]

Such an informative and helpful video ! Thank you so much !!😊

[@macylouwho1187]

I love the way the arbor fits in with the natural wooded look of your property, that’s just good design when things match so well to what the place looks like. It’s a nature-y place and natural items look like they belong there. Very soothing to the soul, that look.

[@4819632011]

It's beautiful!

[@violettawlodkowska4190]

OMG what a paradise 😍 !!! Like a piece of heaven on earth. Luckyyyyy!!!

[@truthofthematter9409]

My gosh that is one beautiful flower. Fine, you've talked me into removing the Clematis and put climbing roses on my arbor! 😉

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

I had such trouble with clematis on my arbor! I had wilt year after year and I had trouble keeping them attached so I went with the roses! High maintenance girlfriends haha but I can’t help it! I love the look ❤️

[@marilyngandy2299]

So, so pretty!

[@jjjohnston545]

Great video and tips. Thanks for sharing

[@sreykimsear]

Really lovely

[@Nicereview763]

I have a strawberry hill and a bathsheba to plant on a fence this week. If mine look anything like this in 3 years I will be very pleased! Looks beautiful.

[@joycetwitty2525]

I am a new subscriber. You and your husband are great together. I watch one of your videos and was hooked. You make me laugh while I learn. You have the most gorgeous flower beds. Tfs

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@franszymanek8695]

Awesome video! You are an inspiration.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thanks so much ❤️

[@mygardeninbloom]

I think it's magazine beautiful and more! 🌸

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Aww! Thank you!

[@seniyeshepherd3050]

Beautiful ❤️

[@spearageddon3279]

Beautiful! 💖

[@kimirvine6310]

Very pretty.

[@DixieGirl9876]

Well done, it's beautiful! I'm in the process of training a David Austin Teasing Georgia rose on a arbor at my veg garden entrance. We have blue birds raising their second brood of baby birds in a watering can at the top of my topsy turvy planter.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Awesome! Bluebirds are my weakness! I love them so much! We are very lucky to watch them raise babies and they sing so beautifully!

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌹🌸🌹YOU GOT THIS‼️🌹🌸🌹

[@veronicaalta9462]

Love it 😍

[@eileenstarr6607]

Your work is so beautiful! I love how you are transforming your garden. I love the arbor. Did you guys build it?? Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and garden with us!

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thank you! I actually had a local artisan build it custom for me. He designed it and built it with a few ideas I had and I just love it!

[@bvintage316]

I’m thinking by year 5 it will be the glorious rose arbor you want. I’m on year two with mine and I just want it to grow already so I know the anticipation is real!😄

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

I think you’re right! I need more patience! 😉

[@billbixby122]

Nice video without your husband. 🤣😂

[@michellelachine9128]

Wow! Your garden is stunning. I have been gifted a David Austin Strawberry Hill rose. I’m trying to decide upon where to plant it. Much of my yard is shaded.

[@FamilyOf4Jays]

Please do a video on how you clean up the rose at the end of the season/late winter/early spring

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Will do!

[@bihakuma3877]

I also get this excited about roses

[@TheGardenGram]

I have a twenty year old climbing rose on a harbor, wish I would have know back then how to train it. It has a beautiful flush at the top. lol Your climbing rose looks great, love the pink!

[@truthofthematter9409]

I'm sure it's still gorgeous.

[@TheGardenGram]

@@truthofthematter9409Thank you, It is very pretty regardless.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

20 years old! Omg! You must send me a picture ! It must be amazing!

[@ElvenartistKentrKatty]

so beauty 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@Jojo-vv9ue]

A new update this year please! Thanks for the video

[@32speedygonzales]

This was such a good video. It was pleasant to listen to you. I could tell how excited you are. Could you make more videos like this. Just you 😂😂😂 Your hubby pokes always at your plant collection and I think I hear out that often you do er want to go into details because he’s around. I have a husband similar to yours at home 😀😅😅

[@mypreciousgarden]

I'm glad I found your video, I ordered it bare root a day ago, can't wait ! How did it go for you in its first season ?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

It was pretty good… slow to grow in the beginning but really picks up in its 2nd year!

[@MysticFIREFLY]

oh I love your garden......where do you garden? so, do your roses smell like Strawberries??? AND, do you have a DIY of how you built your Arbour?? I want one just like it.........I am in Manitoba Canada..... my roses are more Fuschia coloured, David Austen, but I forget the name of mine...... love that you called David Austin and they gave you advice... thanks for sharing your knowledge.... beautiful

[@amyhoff1501]

Planted my first David Austin Roses last year , one climbing,one bush , in peach colors. So many blooms but the climber is still short, looks more like a bush and it’s a painful job to train them up the trellis. Mine of course got rained on too and the blooms looked sad because they were all hanging downward. I have absolutely no idea on how to prune or shape the climbing rose but I had to have one. I watched some videos but I think I need to have somebody to show me in person

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Its so hard to find a pruning video that matches the climber you have a home. I went through countless videos trying to figure it all out.. it was very difficult and still, im not 100% sure what im doing haha. I have some tweaking to do this fall but im happy to report that i have sizable new growth canes to train and keep from this years growth so i will just have to train them where i was lacking this year. Its all a journey! I agree with having an in person trainer... would make things SO much clearer!

[@simonhousego482]

Hi lovely video - is there an update since the 3rd year?

[@marilynsmith8054]

If you go onto David Austin’s website it will tell you everything you need to know about growing roses.

[@mysoutherngarden]

Hey! This climbing rose is beautiful. Great job! And ps...I had a commenter post and then remove a comment saying they thought I was a “wannabe guiding green thumbs.”.....at first it hurt my feelings and then I realized “I kinda do wanna be Shelly from guiding green thumbs!” HAHA!! Thought you might get a kick out of that 😂😂

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

OMG really?! You know what, I’ve learned to ignore some people, lol… thanks for the compliment and keep doing you! The one thing gardeners love to do is share their gardens and experiences and ideas… and there is always more than one way to plant a garden. 😉

[@mysoutherngarden]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs that’s so absolutely right!! 🤗 I agree with you and YES I’m loving watching your videos and I love learning from other gardeners but also appreciate the things about my garden that are unique! Although if I am going to be a copycat, you’re not a bad one to be compared to!! 👍🏻😉 Have a great weekend!

[@pinkrabbit9644]

I just bought 5 David Austin climbing rose last week and be shipped this Spring 2022. I really love how yours turns out. My question is, how long did you wait to see the first bloom and does it have a rapid growth? I'm in zone 5A. Thank you.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Sorry for the late late response… this grew to 6’ it’s first year and it is going into its 4th spring here and has main canes reaching the top of the arbor. By year three this was amazing though! It starts to bloom for us in early June. ❤️

[@LCnenadulce]

Wow it’s beautiful 😻 Does it blooms from spring to fall?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Blooms first flush from Mid June to Early July and then again mid august til September

[@jadeyang222]

So beautiful!! I bought these too so it's very helpful. I'm in Canada, what's your climate? How do they smell?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

They smell amazing! We’re in zone 5b, harsh winters but this variety never has a problem!

[@amyhoff1501]

Did you guys make that trellis? It’s awesome

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

A local artisan in the Catskills custom made it for me! He does amazing work!

[@Northernbloom]

How late into the season does this continue to bloom?

[@layersoflaurel]

Your rose and garden are beautiful. Could you please share about how many hours of sun your Strawberry Hill gets daily? Thank you!

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

This rose gets about 6 hours of sun... We're in a wooded area so my 'full sun' spots generally get 6 hours per day.

[@layersoflaurel]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs Thank you! :)

[@elizabethr2908]

Beautiful! How do these cope with Japanese beetles? Do they have a strong scent?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Def a strong scent, the beetles LOVE the roses and the leaves. I am constantly pulling them off. I pretty much assume July and the first two weeks of august are wasted to them but I get the early flush of flowers and a last flush. Def worth the annoying 6 weeks in between. 😉

[@joannebory1941]

Hi, my question is where I can find that rose I live in Toronto please recommend me because I am new gardener also we’re seniors

[@dorothyv2863]

Where did you get that beautiful Arbor?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Had it custom built by an artisan in the Catskills 😀

[@Zibutegerard]

Do you have a video about building this arbor/trelis?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

We purchased it from a local artisan in the Catskill Mountains. I wish I was that talented to build it!

[@DariasWorld]

Beautiful 😍😍 I must ask how is she doing now that it has been 2 years?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Well, let’s just say we had one awful year that consisted of an ice storm, my bad pruning and a giant joe pyeweed shading it so it really suffered. But happy to say we moved the Joe pyeweed and she is happy rejuvenating and ready for an amazing year in 2024 without interference from me! 😂😂

[@DariasWorld]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs Aww, I'm sorry to hear she didn't do so well. I hope she will do much better now you removed the pyeweed! Would love to see an update video :)

[@Couchfarmer]

5 yr update?

[@moonpi4604]

Have you had any pest or disease issues? I'm hesitant about growing roses because they always seem to be plagued with issues...but I would like to try David Austins varieties.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Always have issues!! I’ve sworn them off MANY times! But here’s what I’ve learned …. Most varieties after establishing will give you the main flush of bloom in June and that is before my biggest pest (Japanese beetles) come out. So I just accept that that’s what happens. I enjoy the first blooms and then I focus on the other colors blooming after. I haven’t had too much of an issue with diseases thankfully but I’m a glutton for punishment lately with trying more roses!

[@moonpi4604]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs wellll...I suppose I will join you shortly in that punishment...thx for your reply.

[@wandatotten7738]

Do you cut down every spring or fall, or do you leave it and just trim?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

So this was the first recommended year for pruning, so I hadn’t pruned it prior to this. The recommendation going forward to to cut back the lateral shoots from this year back to 1-2 new growth points and remove everything else… I’m learning as I go but I was happy with the progress so far!

[@pinjarijaved1]

Hi sister... You have beautiful garden and great collection of plants. I love gardening, if possible, can you send some seeds to me... I will grow in backyard. Thanks....

[@wk2139]

sweet... this is from one plant?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Yep! One plant!

[@wk2139]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs thank you 😍

[@choirunnisak888]

I guess I can't have that rose in my garden because I live in zone 13

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Wow zone 13! I’m sure you have some magnificent plants though!

[@kimirvine6310]

Where did you get that Arbour?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

A local guy in the Catskills (NY) customs built it for me 😊

[@eileentarrant9876]

There’s an old saying ,Let your worst enemy prune roses . Looks like your doing OK,!

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Haha! Yes- honestly I think that could work- everyone including myself is afraid to prune because we want lush roses but pruning gets you there! 😂

[@shaunaharris8377]

Olga carmody check her out she knows a lot about it

[@jeffwong4876]

Can you tell me what is your planting zone.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Zone 5b in Upstate NY

[@mollywolly4201]

Lol I don’t think I have ever heard a gardener say “this is why we plant these stupid things on the arbor” haha.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

😂 I actually rewatched this to see when I said that! Kinda funny! 😆

[@MrMike8082]

How’s the fragrance on these?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Not too strong but glorious!

[@pharmkid02]

What zone are you in?

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

5b in NY 😊

[@delilahrainelle7158]

It looks beautiful. Is this in full sun all day or how many hours of sun and shade does it receive? I have a large property with a lot of lovely forest. I live in the mountains of Virginia and have an abundance of different varieties of flowers that are in bloom from February - mid November. I actually have roses that begin in April and they are still blooming and today is October the 1st! Your landscape looks very similar to mine. The trees are lovely in the background. I have a deck that is 70ft long and ranges in height from 4ft to 8ft. I began with 5 climbers in the spring of 2021. Instead of going with one specific rose and one color, I coordinated colors and textures that complimented each other and so far I’ve had amazing results with varying degrees of pinks and yellows intermingling so beautifully. This past late April I added 2 bare root Portlandias from Heirloom Roses. Their first blooms appeared in late May and have continued to bloom throughout summer. All of my roses are from Heirloom or Jackson & Perkins and all have done very well, but I have to say that the Portlandia has grown the fastest of them all. It is nearly 5 ft tall in just one growing season. The canes are strong and easy to work with. The flowers are large and glorious. Also, I have 3 tall poplar trees that stand in a row and within 6ft of each other. The three stand out from the rest of the forest and receive a little morning sun and a lot of afternoon sun. I wanted to dress the area up, so I planted Don Juan climbers in between each tree and to the left and right outside trees; a total of 4. I was so surprised at how quickly they grew and by June each one had flowered. They only produced a few flowers this summer, but because of the growth rate, I knew the trees would not be enough to support them. My son built some lovely old battlefield type fence, woven in and out of the trees for them to grow on. I am going to let the rails weather to a gray and then coat them with a clear deck sealant. I can just imagine how beautiful those blood red roses will look on that weathered fence. You have such beautiful trees, I thought I would pass that idea along to you. Best Wishes🌹

[@cerronejames1510]

looks great but could have done with another Strawberry Hill planted on the other side of the arbor.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

I know, I wanted to but its shady on that side and just doesn't do well... Ive tried so many things on that side... :-(

[@onemanfran]

@@GuidingGreenThumbs if you can get it where you are try a rose called belvedere, it's absolutely stunning and will cope with only a few hours of shade a day

[@onemanfran]

Although perhaps too big for your arbor...as technically it's a rambler....still it's grown really well on my arch

[@maryalexis7328]

This certainly “magazine worthy”.

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

Thank you 😊

[@nekovero93]

Beautiful!!!! I miss that raspy voice with the cheeky interjections...😉

[@GuidingGreenThumbs]

He’s around… haha! Stay tuned! I can’t get rid of him 😂

[@elizabethrivera5298]

Beautiful!!