Rose ID & Deadheading advice

[seeyouinanotherlifewhenwearebothcats]

Evening all. I inherited this rose and I was reading up on caring for it and saw the importance of deadheading. But when it said rambling roses just need pruned after flowering I realised I don’t know if this is a rambling rose? Or what type it is? Please could anyone shed any light on this? Should I deadhead spent blooms?
Thanks in advance 😊

A rambling rose is a sort of very enthusiastic climber, OP. What you've got there is not that, although I don't know enough about roses to tell you what it is. I would just dead- head individual flowers as they go over for this year.

It's looking very healthy though!

@Crikeyisthatthetime thanks so much! Ok I’ll go ahead and deadhead as they go.

If it smells strongly then it may well be Iceberg, a very popular white rose that has been around for a while (introduced in 1958).

It’s not a rambler, so just cut off the old heads.

https://www.gardenia.net/plant/rose-iceberg

I was going to say Iceberg too!

Oh it is fragrant @Whatevergetsyouthroughthenight, thank you for this!! How lovely. It was my late father in law’s, if I cut some stems to put on his grave would it recover or can you not do that?

That would be fine. Tight buds won’t come out, so try to cut blooms which don’t have tight buds on the same stem.

@seeyouinanotherlifewhenwearebothcats if you mean cut a bunch of flowers to put on your late father in law’s grave, absolutely you can do that, it’ll be fine. What a lovely idea.

The best thing is to cut just above a pair of leaves with a sharp pair of secateurs (scissors may not be up to the job) ,cutting on an angle so that there’s not a flat end to the cut stem that water can sit on and potentially cause rot. New growth will sprout from the leaf joint.

You can also grow a whole new rose bush (or multiple bushes) over time from a cutting from the original bush to grow on your father in law’s grave (if it’s allowed, some places won’t let you grow anything on graves) but it will take a few years to grow big enough to flower. Now is the perfect time to try.

https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-take-rose-cuttings/

Ah thanks so much for this! That’s so helpful ☺️