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Posted by backyardmel (U13682260) on Sunday, 8th April 2012
Last week we had some extreme winds in my garden on the north east coast, and I think it's wrecked all the lush new growth on the rambling rose. I cut the rose back mid feb and it sprouted some lush new leaves, with thick new growth in the March heatwave. However, last week's weather seems to have proved too much and all the leaves have withered and the whole stretch of the rose, which extends into 3 surrounding gardens and is usually a delight of pale pink fragranced flowers at the end of May, now looks pretty sorry. Will it recover? Is there anything I can do to help - pruning of the withered parts or leave?
In mourning - or am I not trusting nature to turn things around?
It will definitely recover - it's just that the leaves were soft and young. If you want the length of the new shoots you can leave them and they will re-sprout or, if you find them too depressing to look at, you can prune them off. Your flowers might be a bit delayed.
Thanks for the reassurance; this perfumed rambler is the most wonderful thing and I was upset when I went out and saw the damage. I'm not depressed by ragged recovery though, will happily leave them to get on with it. Even though we're used to it at the coast, the winds were very strong and cold (gale force 9) and everything was left a bit battered.
I would imagine that your rose has weathered a fair few gales in its time, so is pretty tough
Yep - think it's been there since the 30s… so really, it's going to be fine. Mainly I problems trying to keep the thing pruned, so I shouldn't fret!
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