Hard Pruning.
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Hard Pruning.
This consists of cutting all the stems down to between four and six inches from the base of the plant, just above a healthy, outward facing bud. All dead, diseased or crossing wood is removed.
Recommended for:
(1) All newly planted, (ie bushes that you have planted over the fall-early spring period), bush roses, except miniatures and patio roses.This encourages the bushes to develop a good , strong root system and aids establishment.
(2) Established Hybrid Teas, where you are growing them for exhibition purposes only.
This produces the largest and best quality blooms. The bushes will bloom later, however and the quantity of blooms is greatly reduced.
(3) As a way of rejuvenating old neglected bushes. Imagine moving to a house where the roses tired lanky specimens, full of dead wood!
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