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Rose Pruning
RMM Landscaping & Maintenance
Rose Pruning
Begin Pruning From the Ground Up
Remove Broken, Dead, and Diseased Wood
Remove Twiggy Canes
Remove Sucker Growth Below the Graft
Prune New Growth
Seal Cuts With White Glue (Optional)
Rose Pruning Tips
- Unless your species of rose naturally produces red canes, dead branches can usually be spotted by their black or reddish-black appearance. Dead canes can also be yellow or splotchy in color, containing almost no green.
- If you don’t know what type of rose bush you have, watch the plant throughout its growing season. If it blooms on the new growth, prune it next year while the plant is still dormant or just about to break dormancy. If it blooms early on last year’s canes, don’t prune it until after flowering is complete.
- Some roses, like Alba, Centifolia, Damask, and Gallica types, only bloom once, producing flowers on old wood. These varieties don’t require much pruning at all. Simply, remove dead or thin wood to shape the plants after flowering is complete.
- For maintenance during blooming season, deadhead spent flowers to a strong node and rip out all suckers that form at the base.
Pruning roses can be intimidating to gardeners since cutting back beautiful growth seems counterintuitive and can be downright painful if the plant is unruly. But, the practice actually creates a vital plant, as pruning encourages new growth, removes old, dead wood, helps shape the plant, and reduces the chances of fungal disease by opening the rose plant up to airflow.
In most regions, roses should be pruned between late winter and early spring before blooms start to show. Timing your pruning is determined by the class of the rose plant and the hardiness zone in which it grows. Watch the leaf buds on your rose plant. When they begin to swell and take on a pink or reddish hue, it’s time to prune. Timing it right is critical, as it’s best to prune the plant before the buds break open and right after hard frosts have ended in your region. However, certain roses are finicky about pruning time and prefer to be cut back before breaking dormancy.