Don’t prune your rose bushes back more than ⅓ to ½ of its overall size. Doing so can send the plant into shock which it can’t recover from.

First, you’ll need some bypass pruners. If your rose bushes are older, you may need a pair of loppers to be able to chop off larger canes. The blades should be sharp. Dull pruners and loppers ...

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That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to train it to cover a support. Also, most pruning of climbing roses is done in early to midsummer after the spring/early summer bloom.

First, you’ll need some bypass pruners. If your rose bushes are older, you may need a pair of loppers to be able to chop off larger canes. The blades should be sharp. Dull pruners and loppers ...