Why, When, and How To Deadhead Your Roses

Dead heading roses is the process of removing old blooms to promote new blooms, sooner. In this video you will learn how and where to dead head your roses on the bush. In addition to promoting a faster return to new blooms, removing old blooms can help with the prevention of disease and insects in the garden. If your new, don’t be shy, removing old blooms can be quite satisfying!

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Welcome to our channel!! Videos posted are meant to encourage and help future rose growers in the love of growing roses.

My story with roses began as a teenager, helping my father in his rose garden. We lived on a suburban lot but he grow almost 300 roses! My father competed in local, regional and national rose shows. His garden consisted of mainly exhibition hybrid tea varieties with some mini and mini floras. My biggest chores were digging holes for new roses, weeding, mulching, and putting down compost!

From that experience I found a love for growing lots of things! In my early years I grew vegetables and flowers. For our wedding we grew impatiens in pots all summer and used them as table centerpieces. In 2013 I started with 7 roses, a few for possible exhibiting (Gemini, Gold Medal), a couple from my fathers garden (Elina, European Touch, Ivory Touch), and two for fragrance (Mister Lincoln and Double Delight). In the spring of 2014 I entered my first rose show and won Queen of Show at the Syracuse Rose Society with Gemini. After getting King of Show at the 2014 NY State Fair with Elina, I was hooked!

In 2015 I won Queens at five straight shows (Reading PA, Buffalo, Syracuse, NY State Fair and the American Rose Society National Fall Rose Show). At Nationals, I won Queen with Moonstone, King with European Touch (yes, the bush from my fathers garden 2 years before) and Princess with Veterans Honor. My garden by this point had grown to 42 roses, mainly hybrid tea exhibition roses. In 2016 I won the Queen of Show with Crescendo in Syracuse before moving to Eastern North Carolina in late 2016.

Restarting a garden in a warmer climate was exciting because I could grow more varieties and try different rootstocks (fortunania). Challenges include working with almost 100% sand as “soil”, extreme heat and humidity, wind and hurricanes, lots of bugs and disease! Our garden consists of 44 roses, mainly for exhibiting in shows. Videos on this channel consist of the challenges and victories in our garden.

[lindaramsdell]

My first time at growing Roses, I’ve had people tell me that they are a lot of work, but they’re so beautiful and fragrant. With your help I hope to succeed.

[gnpgnp]

New rose bush owner here.
Easy-going talk and kept it real. AND great close up video capture showing where the cut was and to show descriptive visuals of the various things you were teaching.
All the things a new student needs. Thank you. For those reasons, for me, this is the best video I have seen out of about 4 watched so far, and because of this video, I do not feel the need to keep searching for a good beginner video of deadheading roses. Thank you🙂

[ThisFrenchLife]

I NEVER comment on videos but had to share how much I love your work, your clear explanations, and how you film your videos. It’s direct, to the point, easy to understand, and you make all of this very approachable. I had 50 DA’s installed this spring, taking my rose count up to 73. I was gone for work for six weeks and the garden was under the care of an “experienced” gardener while I was gone. It was an absolute disaster to come back to, she killed some of the new roses, and ignored others altogether. I have a lot of work to do but your videos give me hope and reassurance.

[IdentityStorm]

As a newbie, love your thorough explanation of deadheading and what to do with the thorough away.

[AnneHomitz-zokq]

Excellent! Very knowledgeable, perfect voice tone!! Clearly communicates and gave pertinent information!! Glad I watched this !!!

[conniereeve]

The video and explanation were the best I have seen on the topic of deadheading.

[Idaology]

Helpful video with clear explanation on where exactly to snip. Thank you

[jasonmonas]

Wonderful explanation of the dead heading process and the reasons for doing.

[melrosemaker]

I know I’m watching this a year later but this was so incredibly informative. Even your offhand references and classifications informed me of so many things. Thank you!

[wilhelminajames]

Thank you very much for clarifying dead heading roses for me.

[blalocklf]

Thank you for sharing your video it is very informative for me a novice gardener. Your roses 🌹 are beautiful

[olgabolotina]

Spectacular roses!!! When I see a garden like this - I want to know more of what you are doing 😊 Thank you for sharing!

[ronireland]

Wow man you have got some beautiful red roses that just pop! And the rest are awesome! I moved roses from my wife house when she sold her house and moved them to my/ our house and all 5 served! I put a new bed 3ft x20ft lights and I bought more and I have been trying to learn all i can about starts care i thank you and everyone that I have visited on YouTube and one day may i be half as good as you! God bless! Thank you!

[alyssa]

Thank you so much for this very informative video!

[DelightfulSouvenirs]

Sunny Sunday indeed is spectacular!
Lovely lovely roses. I subbed cause I think I could learn so much from you. Thank you.

[psychopete]

By the looks of your Rose garden i came to the right guy. Beautiful display.

[memories]

Very informative !! I've watched many others, this is the best video for deadheading Roses and how to care for them.

[laurakoon]

Great video! Very clear. Thanks so much for zooming in close to the roses. Very helpful for a new gardener.

[zoram]

OMYGAAAD.
SEEING YOUR ROSES KILL ME, I ENVY YOU SO MUCH. ROSE LIKE THIS GOOD FORM AND HIGH CENTRES ARE MY OBSESSION BUT I DONT HAVE NONE. I ALWAYS DREAM TO HAVE ROSE LIKE THIS BUT HERE IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF INDIA IN A SMALL TOWN THESE ROSES ARE LIKE A HEAVENS AWAY. I REALLY WANT THEM. 😭😭😭.
THESE are soooo beautiful so beautiful. If i have these roses i wont even sleep for days...
There in America you could get each and every roses you re so blessed. I use to see in youtube those bareroot roses so healthy roses to buy from Perkins and jacksons and many nurseries...I envy it so much..They are so good quality and use to dream having them.

[helensergify]

Very helpful and easy to understand, thank you!