It’s about this time every year, after I’ve passed my ugly rose bushes 10 or 12 times, that I Google how to prune them. I’m always second guessing my knowledge, maybe it’s because I live in Portland, and the Rose Test Garden sets a high bar. Your signal that it’s time to prune roses in spring is when you see all the bright yellow forsythia popping up around town. There’s probably a way to tell by your zone too, but that takes research and planning and I don’t do that. Half my roses have already pushed leaves and buds out, but I’m pruning them down anyway, because YOLO.
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