HTA-0647: Henry's Garden — Rose Trimming

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Henry and Buzz demonstrate proper rose trimming and pruning techniques.

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Speaker 1
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What a gorgeous rose. Isn't that beautiful?

Speaker 1
00:02
Yeah, I like that rose.

Speaker 1
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Rosely.

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00:03
I love it. But Henry, the plant's in terrible shape.

Speaker 1
00:06
The plant is not in terrible shape.

Speaker 1
00:08
The plant is doing what these plants do during the cool season.

Speaker 1
00:12
Roses, they shed their leaves.

Speaker 2
00:13
No, Henry, I'm just looking at the structure of the plant to begin with.

Speaker 2
00:17
It has not been well maintained over the years.

Speaker 2
00:19
Well, they're actually --

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00:20
You've neglected it.

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00:21
I am giving you gardening grief for your lack of sentiment

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00:25
and care for this particular plant.

Speaker 2
00:27
Oh, my God, I feel so terrible.

Speaker 2
00:29
YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.

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00:32
LOOK AT THE DEAD WOOD.

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00:33
LOOK AT THE RUBBING AND CROSSING

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00:35
BRANCHES.

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LOOK HOW TALL IT IS.

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I MEAN, THOSE ARE THE BASICS.

Speaker 1
00:40
BUT I'M MORTIFIED.

Speaker 1
00:41
OKAY?

Speaker 1
00:41
NOW LET'S TELL PEOPLE HOW TO

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00:43
CARE FOR THEIR ROSES DURING THE

Speaker 2
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COOL SISTER.

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00:45
LET'S GO OVER THE BASICS.

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00:46
NUMBER ONE, WE WANT TO REMOVE

Speaker 2
00:47
THE DEAD AND DYING WOOD.

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00:50
NUMBER TWO, WE WANT TO REDUCE

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00:51
THE HEIGHT.

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00:52
NUMBER THREE, WE WANT TO PRUNE

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00:54
TO AN OUTSIDE BUD.

Speaker 2
00:58
You don't remember.

Speaker 2
00:58
I don't remember.

Speaker 1
01:00
I knew that was that.

Speaker 2
01:02
I know.

Speaker 1
01:03
I don't even agree with you.

Speaker 2
01:04
In our pre-show, I had four items, but now I only have three.

Speaker 1
01:08
But I don't even agree with you on that.

Speaker 1
01:09
The first thing you want to do is to figure out what height you're going to take this baby down to.

Speaker 2
01:14
No, the first thing, if I might interject, it doesn't matter where you start with.

Speaker 2
01:18
Deadwood, height, selection, whatever.

Speaker 1
01:21
You just start with one of those three and do it in the order you want.

Speaker 1
01:24
If I might interject, you do want to first do the height thing.

Speaker 1
01:26
Because if there's deadwood way up here, then why bother pruning it here when you're just going to prune it again down here?

Speaker 2
01:31
Can I give you the technical, let me give you the technical term, the answer to that question.

Speaker 1
01:36
Yes.

Speaker 2
01:37
Are you listening?

Speaker 2
01:37
Yes.

Speaker 1
01:38
Duh.

Speaker 1
01:39
Okay.

Speaker 1
01:40
Thank you, Buzz Bertolaro.

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01:41
So now what we're going to do is what height do you like to take a rose bush down?

Speaker 2
01:45
Personally, my own personal height?

Speaker 1
01:46
Yes.

Speaker 2
01:47
I think I'm down about 24, 30 inches, somewhere around here.

Speaker 2
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I take a visual point.

Speaker 2
01:51
Okay.

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01:52
I like to bring them down low so that they kind of come up from that particular point so they don't overgrow their particular location.

Speaker 1
01:59
I am going to leave this on just because it's got a rose right now, but I'm going to take this one down to,

Speaker 1
02:05
I'm just going to make an arbitrary decision and take it down just above this spot.

Speaker 2
02:10
Hey, Henry, if I could say, why don't we cut it off right here?

Speaker 2
02:12
Why?

Speaker 2
02:13
Well, then we have all this new growth and new branches coming from this particular point.

Speaker 2
02:17
I don't like to leave all these little forks.

Speaker 2
02:19
Hand me the loppers.

Speaker 2
02:20
Here's the industrial -- I'll do it.

Speaker 1
02:22
I will do this.

Speaker 1
02:23
No, no, I want to do it.

Speaker 1
02:24
I love doing this.

Speaker 1
02:25
Because --

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02:25
This would have been such fun.

Speaker 1
02:27
But, no, you get to do --

Speaker 2
02:29
Ah!

Speaker 2
02:30
Ah!

Speaker 1
02:31
What?

Speaker 1
02:32
Look what you -- look what you pruned off.

Speaker 2
02:34
Yeah, the deadwood.

Speaker 1
02:35
Exactly what you talked about.

Speaker 2
02:37
No.

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02:37
All the deadwood that you were so concerned about,

Speaker 2
02:40
not getting rid of.

Speaker 1
02:41
Does that look like deadwood to you, folks?

Speaker 1
02:42
Does that look like deadwood?

Speaker 1
02:43
That's a rose, Buzz.

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02:44
Okay, give me this.

Speaker 1
02:45
Okay, take it home with you.

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02:47
There you go.

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02:47
And, actually, there's -- oh, and there's another bud coming along.

Speaker 2
02:50
But anyway.

Speaker 2
02:51
- Well, that's the thing at this time of the year.

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02:52
We do have buds and flowers,

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02:54
even though the foliage and the rest of the plant looks crummy.

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02:57
So maybe the first thing we should have done is

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02:59
take all the flowers that you want off

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03:01
and set those aside before you prune.

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03:02
- So again, as Buzz said,

Speaker 1
03:04
it doesn't matter what order you do it in?

Speaker 1
03:05
- Nope. - Yes, it does.

Speaker 1
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- No, it doesn't. - Yes, it does.

Speaker 1
03:08
Okay, now here's a little, Buzz.

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03:10
Buzz, Buzz.

Speaker 1
03:10
Here's a little baby, look at this thing.

Speaker 1
03:13
- Yeah.

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03:13
- A little baby bud here.

Speaker 1
03:15
Can I, does this have a chance of flowering?

Speaker 1
03:17
- Sure does, cut it off and put in water.

Speaker 1
03:19
Okay, so Kimmy, you want to grab this and let's see what we can do with it?

Speaker 1
03:23
All right, get rid of that.

Speaker 1
03:25
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1
03:26
Be careful, there are thorns on there.

Speaker 2
03:27
When people are pruning roses, they tend to think that they're dealing with a piece of crystal.

Speaker 2
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Roses are very resilient.

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They take a lot of abuse with a pair of pruning shears and loppers.

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03:41
So don't be Kimmy, cut it back.

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03:43
You'll be surprised on how it responds.

Speaker 2
03:45
And let me make up another point.

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We prune roses all year round, whether we're taking flowers off or we're cutting it severely in the wintertime.

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03:53
So this is just a cool season.

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It's an all-year-round thing.

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03:57
So give them a haircut.

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03:59
Don't be afraid.

Speaker 1
04:00
You'll be surprised on how well they take off.

Speaker 1
04:01
Let me show folks what dead stuff looks like.

Speaker 1
04:04
It's this brown stuff like this.

Speaker 1
04:06
Obviously, you can tell that that's nothing.

Speaker 1
04:08
This thing right here is dead.

Speaker 1
04:10
Can you see that?

Speaker 1
04:10
Wait, wait, before you cut it, can you see that, Art?

Speaker 1
04:12
It's brown and dead.

Speaker 1
04:14
Why does it die?

Speaker 2
04:15
Because that's just the nature of the beast.

Speaker 2
04:17
IT'S GOING TO DIE.

Speaker 2
04:20
SOME OF THE CANES DON'T LAST

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FOREVER AND EVER.

Speaker 1
04:22
OKAY.

Speaker 1
04:23
SO THIS ONE -- NOW WE'VE GOT

Speaker 1
04:24
TWO BUSHES HERE.

Speaker 1
04:25
THIS BUSH IS PROBABLY PRETTY

Speaker 1
04:27
MUCH DONE, RIGHT?

Speaker 1
04:28
WELL, YES.

Speaker 2
04:29
PRETTY MUCH DONE.

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04:29
BECAUSE I'M LEAVING THIS ONE

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04:30
FOR THE FLOWER.

Speaker 2
04:31
NO!

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04:33
OH.

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04:33
WELL, YOU CAN GLUE THAT

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04:34
BACK ON.

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04:34
I'VE GOT SOME -- THERE'S SOME

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04:36
SITTING RIGHT BY HERE.

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04:38
OKAY.

Speaker 2
04:38
OKAY.

Speaker 3
04:39
I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO

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04:40
TAKE THIS -- GAH!

Speaker 3
04:41
THAT'S IT FOR HENRY'S GARDEN.

Speaker 3
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AT LEAST FOR THIS SEGMENT.

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04:47
I'M GO