Rose bushes create a vibrant and fragrant garden.

This is where"be brave" comes in."An otherwise healthy rose won't die because you pruned it," Tom reassures."A lot of old roses tolerate aggressive pruning well." After pruning out dead wood and the thickest canes, assess the overall remaining shape.

You're looking for. Use bypass pruners to remove spindly growth (canes about as big around as a pencil) and suckers. You can also use them Prune thick canes with long-handled loppers. Shrub roses can be pruned with electric hedge trimmers.

Simply trim off about a third of the growth. Remove woody old. Aug 01, first reduce the whole plant by half now. this will encourage side and basal shoots. also you can remove the largest branch you can find to the lowest youngest looking branch (young shoots look green, old ones look brown), then next year you can remove the other oldest branch.

then give it a good feed with a rose fertilizer rubyem Posts: 2.