this thing to do quickly in October so that your rose bushes bloom profusely after winter

this thing to do quickly in October so that your rose bushes bloom profusely after winter
this thing to do quickly in October so that your rose bushes bloom profusely after winter

If you want beautiful roses in spring, you need to quickly take care of your rose bushes from October. A gardening tip to ensure beautiful flowering after winter.

Gardening isn’t just for spring or summer! All year round, you can keep busy in the garden and maintain or beautify your exterior as you wish. At this time, you can plant perennial plants or rather an easy-to-maintain flower. There is also a specific time of day to favor your hydrangeas, their flowering will be optimal.

But what should you do if you want beautiful roses? One of the French’s must-haves flowers in spring, but care must be taken not to skip a crucial step in autumnto ensure their good health after winter. Because without this, you risk missing out for 2025. Good advice should allow you to obtain satisfactory results according to Home & Workwhich reveals its secrets and more.

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Gardening: an autumn step for roses

For the first flowering of your roses or to do even better than in 2024, you must start now. You must indeed prune your rose bushes in autumnfor good flowering. For what ? Because pruning improves their health, allows better ventilation of the foliage and therefore reduces the risk of fungal diseases. Pruning also controls the shape of your shrub.by guiding the main branches”, specifies Home & Work.

Other benefits of pruning for roses: it eliminates the oldest flowering branches, which therefore produce fewer and fewer flowers; and it stimulates flowering by “concentrating the plant’s energy on the most vigorous branches”. You absolutely must not skip this step at the end of the year. For climbing roses, it is even necessary do it now, in October.

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How to prune your rose bushes?

Now that you know why, you still need to know how. To proceed, take disinfected and well sharpened pruning shears so as not to spread diseases on your rose bushes or injure them. The idea is to get rid of dead wood and damaged branches at the base of the rose bush, to help new growth take place. You can also deploy the main stems at equal distances and “as horizontally as possible”. To do this, tie them to a trellis or wires. Side shoots should be pruned about 5 to 7 cm from the base or 3 to 5 buds. Avoid cutting straight: you must cut at an angle.

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Be careful, however, do not prune certain rose bushes : liana roses, bushy botanical roses and old gallic type roses. Other gardening tips for your roses: clean up fallen leaves and stems as they can attract pests; and fertilize your shrub with a fertilizer rich in potassium or phosphorus.

Editor for Aufeminin since 2022, Charlotte is passionate about cinema, French and international, and a fortune reader. Curious about everything, she talks as much about personalities as…

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