Tuesday’s Tips – Winter Pruning Roses #2

Last week our tips focused on pruning hybrid tea and floribunda roses in coastal Southern California. Today we'll finish up with tips for pruning Old Garden Roses, shrub roses, standard or tree roses, and climbers. Don't forget to clean and sharpen your tools before you start —  a clean cut is important. Let's start with...

Tuesday’s Tips — Winter Pruning for Roses

Barbara: If you live in coastal Southern California it's time to prune your roses. Pruning shapes the plants and encourages healthy new growth by forcing a kind of dormancy on them. Since we don't have the cold temperatures to put our roses to "sleep", we have to make them take a rest by pruning them...