Is it too soon for pruning Roses

 

I have a Rose that is already putting on new growth , is it too soon
to prune it ?

 

wrote:

I prune mine whenever I see fit.  I cut one back just after xmas and
there are no ill effects.  Whether it's the best thing to do to it I
couldn't say.

 

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007  Gardening_Convert wrote:


The received wisdom (well, the wisdom received by me!) is that it is
better to leave rose pruning until March when new flower heads won't be
affected by later frosts. Whether this is a valid argument or not I
don't know but it's the way I've always done it.

David

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No, it's fine. I've always pruned in late autumn (in North Wales) with
no adverse results. In the 1960s when I was working for a well known
commercial rose grower in the east midlands - (think cold winters)
most of the regular staff were sent off the nursery to go and prune
the great man's roses just after Christmas. At that time the ground
was usually frozen hard which gave us the opportunity to break yet
more rules by wheeling barrowloads of fym across his lawns onto the
rose beds. In the summer his roses and his lawns were very good indeed.