Timing your pruning just right can help your roses thrive and bloom for longer - but when is best to give them the chop?

If you went to the trouble of buying and planting high-grade roses at the beginning of the year, you have some good-looking rose blossoms on your hands. It would be a shame not to get a long life from ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Yearly gardening tasks help you stay in touch with the rhythm of the seasons while caring for your plants, and pruning your rose bushes is one ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

Prune Knockout roses heavily in late winter or early spring as new growth begins. Lightly deadhead and shape in late summer, stopping two months before frost. For annual pruning, cut back one-third of ...

Cooler nights are closing in, and the window to shape healthy growth is shrinking. A few careful cuts now will pay off. September hands gardeners a short, decisive spell to guide plants through winter ...

Like many of you, I had a few plants that flowered through the winter. But my roses were the rock stars in the winter, blooming right through December, even though the temperatures were chilly. Roses ...