Prune Roses
You need to prune roses for a variety of reasons, from the more serious aspects of controlling disease to purely aesthetic reasons, not only to achieve the shape you’re after but to encourage more blooms.
The golden rule is to prune at the right time, which is generally best after their dormant period and when any chance of frost has passed. First remove any dead or diseased growth making sure to dispose of these off cuts sufficiently as a fungus can spread like wild fire jumping from plant to plant.
The next step to prune roses is to try and put your rose into one of two categories, large or small. A rough measuring guide would be the height of 4.5 ft. If your rose is easily below that height we’ll cal it a small rose and vice versa. Once you’ve figured this out then pruning becomes much easier.
Next step to prune roses is deciding how far back to prune you’re your rose is small based on the guidelines above cut it back to leave just 9 inches from the crown, this is the part of your rose where the stems shoot out from the main stem, the crown will be relatively near to the ground. If your rose is large prune it back to leave 18 inches from the crown.
But when you prune roses make sure that you take into consideration the aesthetic angle, adjust your pruning to the 9 or 18 inches according to the shape you want the rose to be.
As soon as you begin to see any signs of new growth water and fertilize, you will find more specific help for this in my recommended read over there on the right or in my free email course.
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