How to Train Unruly Climbing Roses
Climbing roses can often become overgrown and become unruly if they are not properly pruned and trained. You must supply climbing roses with a trellis or other object on which they can grow in order to keep them properly contained. Properly trained climbing roses add a touch of beauty to any yard.
Supply List
- Rose trellis or other support
- Nylon stockings
- Garden hose
- Purchase a rose trellis or use another support such as a nearby fence. This will be the area where you are going to train the climbing roses to grow. You can purchase a rose trellis at a nearby home improvement or garden store.
- Moisten the ground where you are going to place the trellis using a standard garden hose. You want the ground to be soft enough to easily insert the trellis stakes into the ground.
- Insert the rose trellis into the ground until it is firmly secured into the soil.
- Cut nylon stockings into thin strips that are approximately 3 inches long using a pair of standard scissors.
- Tie the stems of the roses onto the trellis using the nylon sticking strips to secure the stems of the climbing roses onto the rose trellis. Be careful not to tie the nylon sticking too tight or it can damage the stem of the roses.
- Continue this process placing one nylon strip approximately 8 inches from the one below.
- Allow the offshoots of the climbing roses to hang down, only tie the structural stems of the plant. Overtime the roses will grow around the trellis and you will be able to remove the nylon support pieces that are in place.