[Arid_gardener] Re: Pruning Lady Banks Rose

[Olin Miller]

With Lady Banks, one usually only prunes the spent wood.  But it is also 
okay to prune down to a few feet - just takes longer for it to recover.  I 
would prune to several canes of different length.

Olin Miller, Master Gardener Volunteer
U of A Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County AZ
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----- Original Message ----- From: <jdaxtrax at cox.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:03 AM
> 89144,  jdaxtrax at cox.net
> ...
> Stumbled upon your site while looking for advice on trimming Lady Banks. 
> Ours were straddling the wall between us and a neighbor for years, then 
> they had their guys chop off their side.  Not good.  Anyway, they got 
> pretty woody below from too much shade below the canopy, so I have decided 
> to pare them way back, make a decent espalier, and not let them get out of 
> control (ha-ha) again.
>
> Do you know if I should just take them all the way down to the ground and 
> let the roots do their thing nourishing a new plant...... or what?  If you 
> have no answer, can you refer someone that might?