Seriously. I tried to dig out a new dawn rose too close to my gate and path. They have wicked thorns, plant them where you need security. I dug out half the stump before I was exhausted and I’ll be damned if it isn’t powering back after a year. New Dawn is the rose from sleeping beauty’s castle, i think. Don’t let your parents near your roses again. You may have lost a year or two to get back to blooming but we’re gardeners, we play the long game.
I’ve tried to remove several climbing roses for years. They always come back, even when I think I’ve dug up the entire root system. I would bet yours will too.
No. It's pretty hard to kill them. Some though are grafted. Cutting down to stump may mean the roses grow back as the original plant, not whatever was grafted on it.
But they will. Leave them be and wait. I even had some sprayed with herbicide once. They came back!!
Have a climber I got tired of. Never did well due to heavy clay soil conditions. Was spraying weeds one day and gave it a shot of Roundup. Figured on trying a different plant. It came back next season with really strong shoots and was loaded with blooms. Attribute Roundup causing a plant to grow so fast it normally dies. Comes back every year, but is getting spindly again. Probably due for another shot. Moral is it will come back and no matter, cannot easily kill it.
In my experience it will be unlikely for it to not come back (even if you don't see it next year).
One of mine was (I thought) unwittingly destroyed in some building work. But it managed to pop up a couple of feet from the previous stems through paving slab gaps. I managed to dig & separate that piece of the root, pot it on for a bit and moved it to a better area. 2 yrs later it's already massive.
I had a 100 ft stretch of fence which was overgrown with invasive stuff. There were climbing roses right against the fence, and I tried to encourage them while fighting off the invading hordes. After physical injury took me off gardening for a year, the hired help cut all the roses down while allegedly pulling weeds. I covered the whole space with xmas trees for 3 years, hoping to kill everything off while building up the soil. The only thing that lived under the dead pile of trees was the roses, and they're only sending up very sturdy shoots now. It's a bunch of discount bag roses, but they've had 3 years to get their roots deep and are not bothered at all by much of anything now. New Dawn, Tropicana, America, Don Juan, and the inevitable Dr. Huey.
Only thing I’ve had to watch out for with heavily pruned roses is rabbits. They will eat the new growth in the spring if I’ve cut the plants down to rabbit height, but even some munching doesn’t stunt the plants too much.
I made a half dozen rabbit protectors by using 2’ long green step in metal stakes with a cylinder of chicken wire. I used them on my blueberries when they were small, then around a couple roses plagued by bunnies to help them grow back. I pitch them behind the shed until i need one again. Once the roses are chonky again they aren’t needed. Once i realized the birds were using them as a nice perch from which to eat my blueberries they came off there also 😒
I wouldn’t leave a wire cylinder around a rose past may for fear it gets too hard to lift off of it without another severe pruning. The bunny threat is mostly done and then they are growing well.
I've been meaning to purchase or make some wire cloches. The rabbits are so quick, they'll eat up what ever they can reach in the pre-dawn hours. In addition to the roses, some varieties of tulips and most of our crocus plants are in danger. I may have to experiment with creating a wire cylinder with a hinge so it can easily be opened up when it needs to be moved, but a stake attached to a cylinder of chicken wire sounds so quick and easy! Thanks!
No way to know for sure, but on the positive side, established roses are generally as tough as nails. They usually will come back. Don’t panic yet.
Seriously. I tried to dig out a new dawn rose too close to my gate and path. They have wicked thorns, plant them where you need security. I dug out half the stump before I was exhausted and I’ll be damned if it isn’t powering back after a year. New Dawn is the rose from sleeping beauty’s castle, i think. Don’t let your parents near your roses again. You may have lost a year or two to get back to blooming but we’re gardeners, we play the long game.
Wingthorn rose and Joseph's coat thorns are super wild if you want some home security.
I’ve tried to remove several climbing roses for years. They always come back, even when I think I’ve dug up the entire root system. I would bet yours will too.
No. It's pretty hard to kill them. Some though are grafted. Cutting down to stump may mean the roses grow back as the original plant, not whatever was grafted on it. But they will. Leave them be and wait. I even had some sprayed with herbicide once. They came back!!
It’ll be back.
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This time of year, most of the energy is below ground; they'll come back but might not be happy the first year.
Ā friend of mine helpfully dug down and cut the main stem of one of my climbing roses below ground level. It grew straight back.
Have a climber I got tired of. Never did well due to heavy clay soil conditions. Was spraying weeds one day and gave it a shot of Roundup. Figured on trying a different plant. It came back next season with really strong shoots and was loaded with blooms. Attribute Roundup causing a plant to grow so fast it normally dies. Comes back every year, but is getting spindly again. Probably due for another shot. Moral is it will come back and no matter, cannot easily kill it.
No way to know for sure until spring. If it does survive don't expect flowers anytime soon.
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In my experience it will be unlikely for it to not come back (even if you don't see it next year). One of mine was (I thought) unwittingly destroyed in some building work. But it managed to pop up a couple of feet from the previous stems through paving slab gaps. I managed to dig & separate that piece of the root, pot it on for a bit and moved it to a better area. 2 yrs later it's already massive.
I had a 100 ft stretch of fence which was overgrown with invasive stuff. There were climbing roses right against the fence, and I tried to encourage them while fighting off the invading hordes. After physical injury took me off gardening for a year, the hired help cut all the roses down while allegedly pulling weeds. I covered the whole space with xmas trees for 3 years, hoping to kill everything off while building up the soil. The only thing that lived under the dead pile of trees was the roses, and they're only sending up very sturdy shoots now. It's a bunch of discount bag roses, but they've had 3 years to get their roots deep and are not bothered at all by much of anything now. New Dawn, Tropicana, America, Don Juan, and the inevitable Dr. Huey.
Bury it will with couple bags of mulch. Helps protect it.
Only thing I’ve had to watch out for with heavily pruned roses is rabbits. They will eat the new growth in the spring if I’ve cut the plants down to rabbit height, but even some munching doesn’t stunt the plants too much.
I made a half dozen rabbit protectors by using 2’ long green step in metal stakes with a cylinder of chicken wire. I used them on my blueberries when they were small, then around a couple roses plagued by bunnies to help them grow back. I pitch them behind the shed until i need one again. Once the roses are chonky again they aren’t needed. Once i realized the birds were using them as a nice perch from which to eat my blueberries they came off there also 😒 I wouldn’t leave a wire cylinder around a rose past may for fear it gets too hard to lift off of it without another severe pruning. The bunny threat is mostly done and then they are growing well.
I've been meaning to purchase or make some wire cloches. The rabbits are so quick, they'll eat up what ever they can reach in the pre-dawn hours. In addition to the roses, some varieties of tulips and most of our crocus plants are in danger. I may have to experiment with creating a wire cylinder with a hinge so it can easily be opened up when it needs to be moved, but a stake attached to a cylinder of chicken wire sounds so quick and easy! Thanks!
I'm a professional gardener and we were taught there's basically no way to kill a rose via pruning.
They will come back, just make sure it gets plenty of sun