There are so many jobs to do in your yard to prepare for spring that it’s easy to run out of time before they are all completed. However, certain jobs, like pruning roses, must be done at the right ...

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 ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...

Q: How and when should rose bushes be pruned and winterized? A: What kind of roses do you have? What kind of winter weather do you get? Protecting roses is not too hard to do if you live in an area ...

Question for Dan Gill: I have a climbing rose I'm attempting to train on a wrought iron fence. I need some advice on how and when to prune and the best way to train this rose. --Charlotte Webster ...

Why prune? It revitalizes our roses. We remove weak growth and crossing canes, which opens up the plant to light and air. We leave strong healthy canes, which improves the plant’s appearance and ...

Answer: No, it’s not too late. There’s more harm in pruning roses too early than too late. That’s because pruning stimulates a flush of new growth, which is wonderful — as long as you’re past the risk ...

Gardening season may be in the rearview mirror, but there are still plenty of questions to ask. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s ...

Horticultural expert Monty Don has shared his wisdom with British gardeners, urging them to get out into their gardens this October to prune climbing roses for a stunning bloom next year and to ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I need some advice on pruning a climbing rose trained on a wrought iron ...