Roses are beautiful, and because of their majesty, they are the most popular flower of gardeners and nongardeners alike. It isn't a surprise roses, our national flower, are top sellers at nurseries ...

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 ...

Get your garden ready for spring with this essential January pruning checklist. From fruit trees to roses, these are the ...

If you want the most blooms on your climbing roses next spring, you should prune the right way and at the right time. These gardening tips and tricks will help.

Someone once said: “Life is like a rose garden — watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy.” Marin Master Gardener rose experts advise that in addition to pest dust, another way to enhance the ...

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 ...

Although roses sometimes don’t go completely dormant, they experience a period of slow growth and partial dormancy in the ...

Pruning rose bushes can be intimidating, but the process is essential to keeping the plant healthy and growing. Have some confidence knowing that it’s hard to kill a rose by over-pruning. Pruning rose ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Learning how to prune a rose bush can seem like a daunting landscaping chore, but with the right ...

An annual ritual for rose growers is the pruning of roses sometime from December to the end of March. But why do the bushes need to be pruned? For centuries they were left to their own devices and ...

One of the thornier issues gardeners must deal with each year is when to prune the roses. Pruning is completed in concert with location and temperature, and new growth is stimulated by warmer weather, ...

Many gardeners overlook January, but it's one of the most effective times to prune plants ahead of spring. Keep reading for ...