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Pruning David Austin EGLANTYNE Tree Rose

6 years ago

Hi All,
I’m a novice gardener and need advice how to care for a David Austin Tree Rose.

Can someone explain how to prune this thorny Tree Rose?
The main graft tree out canes which are green and thorny.
Will these canes eventually grow other canes?
Where do you prune at if you don’t see any bud eye forming?
Also, I think I spray some Bioadvanced and it burned the tip of the canes and I see burned foliage. I would think the canes would grow and form a rose bud, but if it’s burnt at the tip, will it recover and how do I promote further growth.

Comments (13)

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Except for cutting off any shoots that appear below the point where the named variety was grafted onto the trunk the pruning is the same as if it were growing in the ground. Instead of on top of another rose. So try searching the web for "pruning eglantyne" and seeing what comes up. If you don't get anything specific to that variety then search the pruning of whatever rose class it belongs to (probably Shrub).

  • 6 years ago

    Thank you everyone. It looks great Diane. I have 3 Tree Rose planted this early April. Do this canes grown from the graft eventually spawn new canes? I won’t do any pruning now, but do I dead them after 5 leaves?

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    What's happening is that this is already turning out to be a bigger, more vigorous grower than you expected. It may turn out you have to move them to another spot or start over again with a different, more compact variety.

  • 6 years ago

    I agree that Eglantyne can get large--I've grown several over the years in two locations, and they were/are at least 7 feet tall and quite wide. Who did you get these from? And do you garden in zone 7 or warmer? I'm in zone 7, and my Austins are almost all very large. I hope I haven't discouraged you. I think of some floribundas as being good as "tree" roses. Tamora, a very small Austin, would make a lovely tree form (her thorns are bad, unfortunately) if you really want the Austin look. She's a parent of Evelyn and is still being sold by David Austin, I believe. I've grown her for years and really love Tamora. Diane

  • 6 years ago

    Sorry, I think I confused everyone. I’m actually growing 10 DA shrubs, Grace, Darby, Sweet Juliet, and Carding Mill and hope to create a hedge around my flower bed. All my DS shrubs are own root roses. The three tree roses from DA are grafted roses. I’m fine with the size, but I was worry that I burned some of the foliage to the canes on the top.

    I’m trying to understand in the circle in red if this cane grown from the graft will spawn new canes. Since some of the other canes tip foliage is burned, I was worry, it won’t be able to grow further and produce buds, so I was wanting to know if I should prune them in the red line.

    I attached some picture where u see the tip of the canes are browned.

  • 6 years ago

    I’m in TN, zone 7b?

  • 6 years ago

    One of my blooms from DA Abraham Darby.

  • 6 years ago

    Possibly one or more of your "burned" canes is actually rose midge infested. Otherwise no cane that is not shriveled and dead is going to stop growing.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I was going to say the same thing. Midge.

  • 6 years ago

    I have three 'Eglantyne' standard roses. I don't have a picture right now, but I can take one tomorrow for you. This rose tends to want to grow long straight canes that are very upright. It doesn't branch very much. Maybe this is something that can be helped with pruning over time (I planted it last year, this will be it's second season).

    By the end of the summer, it was 3-4 foot tall (the actual rose part, not the trunk). It looked a little bit strange at first, but then it kind of filled out and was really pretty. The canes got long, but they never flopped over until the end of the season when about half of them flopped.

    When I pruned this year, I tried to prune hard, yet keep the spots where it had branched. Hopefully as time passes, the canes will get thicker and stronger.

    Maybe I should go out and pinch some of the new growth to encourage some branching? I'm new at this as well, so I'm trying to figure it out too.

    The brown leaves at the tips? It could be the color of the new growth. In one of those last pics it does seem like there's something else happening. But in the first pics you posted it looks like the color of the new growth to me.

    Eglantyne is such a charming rose...I love it!


  • 6 years ago

    Ok, this is not a great pic, but it's the only one I could find from last summer. The 'Eglantyne' standard can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the pic.


    You can see that it's very tall and upright. This pic was taken in mid August.

    I am going to do some pinching tomorrow of the new growth to make it bushier and I'll take another picture.

    This reminds me, there is a Canadian rose grower that has a YouTube channel. It's called Fraser Valley Rose Farm. He has a video called 'Tree Rose Pruning (Rose Standard)'. It's a great video for anyone, but especially people new to standard rose pruning.

  • 6 years ago

    Thanks Everyone. Rosylady, it seems you have a tree rose as well. How are you pinching your tree rose? Can you show some examples before and after? Can you use a shear to prune or you pinching by hand? I’ll check out that YouTube video.

    Thanks for the tips.