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In reply to the discussion: It's time to prune my roses [View all]

dixiegrrrrl

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3. Depends on what kind they are
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 01:13 PM
Jan 2012

Tea roses?
floribunda?
climbing?

What I find helpful is googling for " pruning tea roses"
or
"pruning floribunda roses"
then looking until I find an article with pics, most good articles have before and after pics.
The overall trick to pruning roses is to cut just above the "eye" ( new bud) where the new stem will grow and produce a flower.,
you want that stem to grow to the outside of the center, not towards the inside of the center
and you want to cut way back any black, diseased, dead stems, all the way to the ground.

Whipping a badly overgrown bush will take a few pruning sessions over a 6-9 month period.
right now cutting out all deadwood is a good time.
Then cutting off a branch when bush is in bloom, to remove the blooming rose for a vase
or
remove the dead rose on the plant.

Roses are related to blackberries, so it is almost impossible to kill them, they will usually grow back even if you cut them down to a few stalks.
But moving/transplanting a developed rose bush will teach you that they have a tap root that goes deep, for miles.

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