If you want the most blooms on your climbing roses next spring, you should prune the right way and at the right time. These ...

Although roses sometimes don’t go completely dormant, they experience a period of slow growth and partial dormancy in the ...

I can think of no other shrub that blooms over such a long season or comes in as many colors as roses. When you factor in their wonderful fragrance, it's not surprising that roses are among the most ...

Hey gardeners! Valentine’s day is close at hand…and so is spring! The weather has moderated a bit and become a little more spring-like and who knows, maybe our final round of cold weather has passed.

Now’s the time to prepare your garden roses for the coming growing season. The three primary purposes of pruning are to remove damaged and unwanted canes, promote optimum blooming and reduce size of ...

Because of our exceptionally long growing season, we typically cut roses back twice a year in Louisiana. The first pruning is done now in late January to early February, and the second pruning is done ...

You'll need by-pass shears, a pruning saw for any difficult-to-cut canes and a pair of heavy, preferably leather, gloves to protect yourself from the thorns. The Houston Rose Society recommends ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

As we enter the waning days of summer, many of our plants are just plain tired after enduring months of heat — and they’re showing it. Roses are no exception. They tend to get a bit leggy and ...

Baldo Villegas enjoys the many blooms in his Orangevale rose garden, which features more than 2,500 bushes. He developed a pruning method that takes 3 minutes or less per bush. Paul Kitagaki Jr.

Q: I missed pruning my roses bushes in January and they are now all leafing out. Is it too late to prune them? A: If your roses are already leafing out and putting on new growth, you don’t want to ...

Roses want to be pruned just before they wake from their winter dormancy. This will be very early in the year in warmer climates and any time between January and April where it's cold. A clean, sharp ...