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How to Prune Rose Bushes
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Tags: Roses, Rose Bushes, Pruning Rose Bushes, Pruning
An easy guide to deadheading and pruning tea roses and large climbing roses.
| 1. | Hygiene. Rinse your shears in the alcohol before pruning. Rinse them again before moving on to another bush. This prevents the transfer of diseases, such as black spot, between the plants. |
| 2. | Deadheading. When deadheading (removing spent blooms to encourage more blooming), cut the spent bloom off just above the first five leaf cluster. |
| 3. | Pruning Tea Roses. When pruning severely, it's best to wait until spring because the plant will put out new growth that would be injured by cold weather. Cut off any dead wood. Cut off one-half to two-thirds of the rest of the canes. Twelve inch high plants is reasonable. |
| 4. | Pruning Big Climbing Roses (i.e. Dr Van Fleet). After the seasonal bloom, trim canes back to shape the plant. Take out any long sucker canes. Trim any crossing canes that might damage other parts of the plant. When the rose gets too large after a few seasons, hack aggressively. |
| 5. | Throw all debris in the garbage. |
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