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Once you have covered the area with the best, youngest, healthiest stems, any remaining stems can also be removed.
Another key job in the rose garden that we’ll take on in January is the planting of bare root roses to ‘gap fill’ where roses have been lost. As long as the ground isn’t too frozen that is!
Wisteria pruning
Wisteria pruning is another great job that can be done at this time of the year. Back in the summer we cut back the new shoots to six buds or so. In January the next job is to cut back those same shoots, and any newly grown side shoots, again to two or three buds from the main stem.
This will ensure that, come early summer, there will be as many fat healthy buds as possible and then huge dripping flowers. You’ll find our wisteria here at Polesden Lacey on the wall of the house and a very old specimen growing up the rose garden water tower.