Roses can be pruned in fall or spring—fall helps with shaping, while spring pruning supports fresh growth. In cold zones, stick to light fall pruning to avoid frost damage; in mild zones, heavier cuts ...

If you're lucky enough to own garden roses, one of the most important things you can do to keep your them (or almost any plant, for that matter) healthy and thriving is to give them a proper pruning ...

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.

Many of the roses grown in Florida require regular maintenance. Part of this maintenance includes pruning. But gardeners sometimes have a hard time getting up the nerve to cut their rose bushes back.

Pruning is an essential aspect of caring for roses. Unlike lower-maintenance shrubs such as hydrangea and forsythia, roses benefit from regular pruning to help keep them tidy and disease-free and ...

If you want strong, healthy rose plants with big, beautiful blooms this spring, winter is the best time to prune them. Don Chapman, a member of the Marin Rose Society and UC Marin Master Gardeners, ...

A light fall trim keeps your roses tidy and resilient through winter storms. “A fall prune can be a little less precise when ...

In Southern California, we don’t experience winter like the rest of the country. Most gardening guides will tell you to prune ...

It may feel like the right time to cut roses back when temperatures begin to cool in the fall, but make sure you don’t cut too much. For most roses, fall is the time for a light ...

As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider adding roses to your landscape. Besides ...