How To Prune Your Climbing Rose

Owner Ben Hanna takes you through the proper steps to prune your climbing rose. A properly pruned and trained rose will have blooms from top to bottom.
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[@hilshils3426]

Wow, that WAS drastic. Wish I could see the result in flowers that summer!

[@Kathysart]

Ohh! I actually gasped when you cut that large cane. Well, I’m learning. So much to know. This is exciting.

[@heirloomroses]

Thanks for watching! It can definitely be intimidating when you have to take out a well-established cane, but it can be a great way to rejuvenate your rose.

[@zonderbaar]

me too 😂

[@sexualbutterfly]

Same!

[@bayluck1]

I have a Lady bank for 3 yrs now. The first two yrs. it didn't bloom, but grow canes and leaves. I ran across this video and I thought he was killing the rose. But I said "I'll trust the process." I'm glad I did. This third year I have flower blooms all over it and compliments!!! Thanks so much! ❤

[@juliakronfli6209]

This is the best video I found so far on how to trim a climber. Thank you!

[@chandi58]

one of the best video I have seen of pruning climbing rose.

[@MFT069]

Thank you. I inherited two beautiful climbers when buying our homes. I have been nervous about hard pruning them. This is giving me the confidence to do so.

[@MEANJEAN2U]

Well done video on pruning! The white backdrop is SO helpful to see what is transpiring with the cuts and training. Thank you!

[@pmcc59]

I didn’t know you could prune it as hard as this.. amazing results 😊

[@yhliu6083]

I inherited so many roses from my previous house owner but not the pruning skills😅thanks for sharing. It has been the clearest and the most thorough information about rose pruning.

[@heirloomroses]

I am so glad this video was helpful! Happy Gardening!

[@user-mr9uy9gj5l]

After 13 years (yes, I said 13 years!) I feel I can get my climbing roses to appear and perform as they are meant to. I planted them in the wrong area for climbers, so first, I’ll move them. Thank you for this easy-to-follow video along with your plainly explaining what to do . . . with no unnecessary blather!

[@sarahwallander8221]

Couldn’t have said it better!!!

[@lilah9675]

I watch this video often before pruning my climbers. You are so easy to understand - thankyou for such great instruction!

[@wendyperez8714]

I have this on auto-play. Seriously. Auto-play.

[@julialodder4407]

This is such a fab video! So clear and perfect for the beginner. Thank you soo much! I feel quite confident now about pruning my 2 climbers 😊

[@kimlavich7790]

Pruning scares me to pieces! I'm going to try it though. Thank you for the demonstration.

[@adelaidebeatricelaing4498]

Wonderful video, so clear and informative. I agree wholeheartedly with all the glowing comments that you already have received, they are well deserved and well said. I am pruning my roses here in Melbourne, Australia and this has been immeasurably helpful. The reach of your help is extremely wide. I couldn't have done it without your informative video. Thank you.

[@heirloomroses]

Thank you so much!

[@EklectikaAaynne]

I'm new to growing roses & just received my EDEN CLIMBER from you. Great videos! My only 'ask' would be to edit in what the pruned climber looks like a year out after it's trim. I always learn a LOT from all types of "before/after" photos/videos.

[@John-bs6ut]

I totally agree. We need to be reassured by seeing that such a drastic prune did result in full regrowth giving good coverage and a great show of flowers. For all we know it was a cut too far and it failed.

[@catspaw7783]

Arrrghhhh I’ve learnt so much I’d been hanging on to the big thick leader for yearrrrs

[@lyndaspenner4554]

Most helpful and easy to understand video about pruning roses I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much 😊

[@suzannederringer1607]

I have SUPER DOROTHY from you..it's only 2 years old. Last year it grew into a fine Shrub with good bloom.. Late last summer it realized it has Long Cane Genes! Suddenly it was 8 and 10 feet long. I just tied them to some fencing down a little hill. This year it was simply a mass of rosy-pink bloom, all through June. Astonishing! After blooms faded I pruned...the Plant is now putting out Buds for an Autumn flush. The Plant is amazingly healthy and vigorous. Thank you so much! I may be moving this Fall and will cut it baxk and dig it up and take it with me. Will order others from you when i am settled. Right now most of my Roses (and Herbs and Small Fruits) are in Containers awaiting transport.

[@ros4shopping]

Very clear; this is the best video I have found on how to prune climbing roses and has given me the confidence to do it properly - thank you!

[@louiselarson6410]

Great video! One of the best I've ever seen and I am reflecting back to what my grandfather used to tell me (he was a Master Gardener), that people just don't prune their roses sufficiently. Back out to the garden now to attend to some of mine!

[@lindafrost6292]

I love this video. I have some climbing roses but didn't know anything about how to prune them and train them. This video has been so helpful and so informative and interesting. Thank you!

[@annkeir1964]

Best video that I have seen on pruning a climbing rose. I now feel more prepared to prune my Joseph's Coat Rose

[@rosincox9799]

This is the best video I've seen on pruning a climbing rose. Everything explained so well.Thank you from Ireland .

[@brainfreeze1925]

Many thanks. My 86 year old mother had a bad stroke last year and can no longer garden nor advice me. She was an avid gardener particularly with 40 different varieties of roses. (Her middle name is Rose...go figure). Anyway, I have 6 climbing roses I'm trying to nurse back to health. I will try and incorporate your tips. Cheers.

[@christinekilgore9934]

One of the best instructional videos I ever watched. Man, I do not understand the comments below. If you know so much about pruning- you would not be watching lol! Do ya think he may actually know what he is doing and understands the growth habits of roses?! Me thinks he does... :))

[@karinlerew6542]

You have a wonderful way of making the information and how to do it not feel overwhelming. I’m excited to go explore my climbers to see where I’ll start next year. I am a visual person so it would have been extra helpful to actually see what the canes looked like before the cut and as you cut them instead of your back. But your lesson was clear, informative and enjoyable! So, thank you!

[@Ingridv8x]

Concise, clear, no unnecessary waffling. Thank you for an extremely helpful video. I am very much of the “You have to be cruel to be kind” brigade in dealing with plants, but have not been successful with climbing roses .... obviously not dared to be ‘cruel’ enough :). Thanks again from the UK x

[@cooladi6]

one of the best video i have seen in my life thanks to educate me regarding pruning

[@Melissa-ul4ss]

That’s so cool new gardener here and just had my 6 year old help me plant some climbing roses and when I wasn’t looking she dumped half the package probably 50 seeds lol. So here I am learning about it and now I believe I need to find a big trellis cage and do something like this. All I can think of is what an amazing place for pictures once they all bloom. I’d love to see what it looked like when it bloomed.

[@neverlostforwords]

What a wonderful video, thanks. I planted two climbing roses (Buff Beauty and Pierre de Ronsard) in my daughter's garden in autumn a few months ago (I am in Melbourne Australia). As they are only new I have left them to do their own thing this spring and they are both blooming away at a low height, however next winter I will try pruning them this way. You are a genuine expert. Clearly it takes years to develop an eye for picking the right canes to leave and the right ones to remove, but it will be worth practising. :)

[@rkgrant]

Thank you from the Sunshine Coast of B.C. I have a rose planted about 1950 that I am about to prune, your video is so helpful that I think I might even know what I am doing! (In case I don't, and I kill it, I have a cutting planted two years ago!)

[@kimlavich7790]

Well, I pruned them just like this, and I've never seen so many blooms!!!

[@kimlavich7790]

I just went out to deadhead and found a tiny little bird nest in the rose bush💞

[@sunnymadher]

I want to see what this rose looks like now 🌹

[@benhanna393]

Sunny Mad Here is our latest video that shows before and after. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@nafisanusrat4525]

How to prune a climbing rose

[@citrusphotorestore233]

Very well done instructional video. However, I would very much like to see what that plant looked like at the end of summer or even the next year.

[@lapopinbrebioncatherine7464]

Me too !!!

[@KyrstOak]

I doubt this is the type of channel to listen.

[@benhanna393]

Here is our latest video that shows before and after. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@rayc644]

@@benhanna393 Thanks for posting the updated video!

[@WhereOwenWent]

@@benhanna393 Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed that video even more!

[@danielgonzalezd.4343]

Wow I was quite scared to see how you cut one main stick of the rose. But the end result made sense to me. I got a pair of Hairloom roses and they are just beautiful this summer. Now that is fall I am planning to trim them down, that's why I was watching your video. Thanks for the tips.

[@trudyroberts1936]

Mine is leggy, your vid is excellent and will take your advise and train the main stems from base. I look forward to seeing these blooms in a few months. Thank you

[@kristinalowe9819]

Excellent video, thank you! ❤

[@nancyhouse280]

Thank you very easy to understand. I have a climber that will appreciate this.

[@heirloomroses]

Hello Nancy, you are so very welcome and so happy to hear that you found the video helpful! :)

[@tracy3364]

Love the sound of a zip tie..thanks I will go prune my climber now

[@Rainingdogs56]

Great job. I will recommend this video to my customers.

[@dianajones5086]

Your video is a gem. Thank you. I have climbing roses on a roof top garden, and they have languished. I now know how to prune and train them, and I cant wait to see how they bloom in October. I had been far too cautious in the past, didn't realise how the rose bloomed.

[@JillianNorwood]

Thank you for this wonderful video!

[@angelanichols6158]

That really helped me, thank you. I have two generous gardeners that I planted last spring and I just haven’t looked after them well enough. They are a mess and thanks to you I know what to do now.

[@jodiv2928]

I thought I might want to try a climbing rose but so much work and knowledge you have to understand.. I think I will stick with clematis.. Pull the vines through the trellis a few times and just leave it and let it do its thing. then in the fall cut it back entirely and let it grow again in the spring

[@kaylabryson1932]

This is ALL about Cutting ! The how to and what, very helpful

[@meganneale2074]

One of the best instructional videos on pruning climbing roses I have seen. Very well done. Thank you 🙏 (perhaps should be titled ‘pruning roses for the NOT so faint hearted 😊)

[@rebeccawhite7540]

Thank you very much for this tutorial! I first saw this video in late spring 2020--it was too late to prune my climbing rose bush then. Finally yesterday I was able to do it! It was a fun project and I'm looking forward to seeing how the plant does this year.

[@mona0monik]

How did it go, how is your rose flowering now?

[@krzysztofgorczynski7191]

​@@mona0monikwe need to know rn 😅

[@anndunne6430]

Thanks so much. I have a Zepherine Drouhin here in Ireland and didn't know what to do with it. I do now. Fantastic video!

[@stephenbell-booth2648]

Very helpful advice, thank you, hi from New Zealand

[@AgricultureAcademy]

Super video, great to learn from a pro and thanks for sharing your expertise.

[@reddog40]

I have a Edan and it's in its 3 rd yr its gigantic looks like i have a bunch on the trellis and its one plant its coming outfront into the yard and going into the big rode garden now I know i can just prune it back after this first flush.Good video and information easy to understand.Thank you.

[@franbrough129]

I moved into a place last year with a small garden, I have 2 climbing Rose's, both very overgrown, one I have managed to clear it back the other side has brambles intertwined in it, but I think that has given me a lot of ideas of how to do it, it wont be very easy because the other side of the fence is a bit of a wildlife park so no-one manages the brambles

[@BigBob99-sc6tj]

The look on my wife's face was priceless all she kept saying was not happening we're not doing that. Lol

[@oxennguyen3148]

Very good, your instruction give me more confident for trimming rose , very well explain. Thanks

[@wastelanderone]

I inherited 6 climbing roses on my new allotment which need a lot of care so than you for this video!

[@raph7490]

Great video.. I have quite a few climbers on trellis and wanted to start again to prevent rear trellis growth so when spring comes, they getting chopped :o

[@lwuajiro]

Wow! One of the most instructing videos I have seen. Thank you

[@moiragrant9719]

really helpful & clear, good luck to rose growers everywhere!

[@kmaassociates7999]

My grandmother had pots and/or or a special bed, with 50/50 shade, manure based compost mix of soil, sand, peat, ect. where she took all health cuttings especially of her heirloom fragrant roses, for rooting. After inspecting the cuttings and pruning them to size then scoring the stems lower quarter she dipped them in old fashioned aspirin powder or soaked them in willow bark 'tea' they were placed in the ground. Most of them rooted and grew like weeds.!

[@mattbodin1]

Thank you, great info! I have 11 types of roses at my house I recently purchased and Im new to caring for them. Id love to see the pruning and the effect of the pruning in a closure of the video- like a follow up to see the progress of the cuts and how it grew due to those cuts.

[@heirloomroses]

Thanks for the feedback. If you are interested in a before an after I recommend this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@paultsworld]

Wow - I've just done a tutorial on pruning climbing roses in my English Garden - I prune really hard but this makes mine look half done! Well explained video.

[@thaze344]

When he cut that first main cane...I knew this guy was savage.

[@benhanna393]

tanya hazen Here is our latest video that shows before and after. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@MsKawaiichii]

Thank you for your video; very helpful. I have eight rose bushes that were neglected for years before we moved here. Hopefully, they will appreciate it.

[@frankblangeard8865]

I'm sure that the plant lived but it took more than one year to come back. And in another video this same fellow explains that if you want the trellis filled top to bottom you need to plant more than one rose bush. If you only plant one bush there will be an airy see through look.

[@pumpkineater_69557]

That was painful, ouch for the rose. Thanks, I needed that.

[@benhanna393]

Here is a link to our latest video that shows before and after: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@janhammett3376]

Thank you! I just ordered two climbing roses from Heirloom and I can't wait to get started!

[@tombeckett4340]

I can’t wait to see your final results. Thanks 🇨🇦👍

[@marciacharles-mo2396]

Excellent tutorial Great place to buy roses as well

[@RobertGipson]

Fantastic. many thanks. Your video was just what I needed before I tackle my rose.

[@nunogouveia2425]

Great video! Thanks :)

[@mikedan297]

Excellent! Very good demonstration, thank you.

[@cynthiabrown11]

OMG!! You should see my cecile brunner, you would be appalled.. I was afraid to cut anything. Now I (hopefully) can get in there and go to town No wonder with the growth, I got so few actual flowers last year. Fingers crossed. Thank you

[@donnayoung5942]

Excellent video!

[@grettalemabouchou6779]

As a beginner, my goodness that was hard to watch! lol. But I thank you for the lesson which was very clear. Just wanted to add something that could apply to some of us: cleaning thoroughly is pivotal if you have small pets or the occasional rabbit to the garden....I could not imagine the agony of something so sharp in a tender paw. God bless to all....:)

[@thomasmurray4717]

Excellent 👍👍

[@laurajacobs1000]

I'm sitting here with my new loppers and gloves, ready to prune everything but just watching my saved videos one more time for instruction. Thank you for putting such a helpful video out there. How does removing a very large cane rejuvenate the rose? Does it all more energy to get to the remaining canes?

[@heirloomroses]

Good question! It allows the rose to put on new fresh growth. Here is an article with more information. I hope this helps! heirloomroses.com/blogs/how-to-articles/prune-roses-that-climb?_gl=1*1l8z4qh*_up*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwtIaVBhBkEiwAsr7-c5wMseuTes2MoWedWu1VYpWHScdno7skEvgby6rbvV1olYwiBlfbyBoC3l8QAvD_BwE

[@trixolivier4999]

Thankyou very much for a good Video, everything makes very good sense for the first time in my life, I always seem to inherit "sick" roses, as I we move so much......thats the side bad of life in the ministry

[@geenasmith7209]

That was hars to watch him cut that main cane!

[@Nicefoolkilla]

Very informatove. Thanks for all the tips!

[@heirloomroses]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wendyperez8714]

Okay. I'm gonna do it although I'm scared to death but my David Austin was planted in 2013 and has never been pruned. You get the picture. And.... the half-obelisk it was growing on has rusted away so it's just up against a fence in my garden. Wish me lucky sliding a cattle panel in and not getting impaled. Thank you for sharing. I hope I don't botch it.

[@kristinhacker]

This is the best pruning video I've ever watched! Thank you! I learned so much and the acronym was very clever: ) As previously mentioned, this really gave me confidence to prune fearlessly too!

[@cassiebarclay3770]

Thank you! We're lucky enough to live in the same town as your business so we'll be stopping by for some roses soon!

[@heirloomroses]

Hello Cassie, you are so welcome! We are closed to the public this year, since we are under renovation. Please call our toll free number for information at 800-820-0465. :)

[@MsStuff00]

I will try this with my roses next year. Thank you!!

[@Bhope07]

wow, what a great informational video..I learned so much thank you

[@rockymountaindiva]

This is a TERRIFIC instructional video ~ thanks so much!

[@andrewtschramm]

What time of year did this occur in? Early Spring? I’m also curious whether this is a good time to feed the plant. Thanks for a very helpful video!

[@georgebrearley8944]

Very helpful and confidence building.

[@marshall886]

I just gave myself a number 1, I hope that it will help prune as well you sir...

[@MichelleFoxBeauty]

Hi! I followed this advice and I have a gorgeous blaze climbing rose bush full of blooms. My question is, do I leave it alone at the end of the season since it did so well, or do I sort of start over again and trim off all the laterals and train just the main canes? This is it's second summer.

[@jillr759]

I vote prune prune prune! The results are stunning!

[@ashleymay7848]

I am curious if you have an updated video of this climbing rose now? Would love to see it!!

[@heirloomroses]

Unfortunately we do not have an updated video of this rose, but if you watch one of our more recent pruning videos on climbing roses, kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68 Ben goes over the pruning process on a different rose. That video does have a follow up video that describes how Ben's pruning benefited the rose.

[@marthaaceituno7586]

Well done. Good explanation of Climb roses

[@rosegardenbarh]

Beautiful

[@TheDutchessslave]

I would love to see a picture of this once it starts to bloom.

[@lesliemowers4443]

Great video. It would be helpful to post a photo of this rose during summer to see how it filled in.

[@benhanna393]

Here is a link to our latest video that shows before and after: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_JhJR-ast_i68

[@pandalove4everful]

Wow! I've never did that to my climber! Maybe, I should!

[@nawty26]

Loved ur video.....AGAIN!! Really love the way you teach. Thank you

[@cools124]

Thank You so much for useful information and that too in quite details, easy to understand and follow :) God Bless

[@sendark001]

wow going for that main cane was not what i would expect!

[@genovevahester7520]

That is a great video, thank you!... Exactly what I needed!

[@cynthiacassel9201]

E stands for eeeek - I’ve never pruned one that hard. Wish I could have seen it blooming afterwards!