GARDENING | Summer prune your roses for autumn show

February 4 2017 - 12:30pm
ESSENTIAL: Only a good summer prune will ensure that your rose garden continues to flower well past April.
ESSENTIAL: Only a good summer prune will ensure that your rose garden continues to flower well past April.
EASY: Don't overwater roses at this time of year, or growth will come too soon.
EASY: Don't overwater roses at this time of year, or growth will come too soon.

For your roses to keep flowering right through April, May and early June they must be given a summer prune. By now, roses will have produced their spring flush and will almost have finished their second burst of blooms. If not summer pruned, these roses will be finished by April.

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