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How do I care for my rose bushes now that the blooms are dying?

I just recently moved into a home with four gorgeous rose bushes out front. I’ve never had roses before and I don’t know what to do with the now dying blooms. Do I cut them back? Leave them? Please advise, I don’t want to hurt them. I have no idea what kind they are. Thanks

If you dead head the old roses, they will continue to bloom. Roses produce flowers to produce seed pods (rose hips). The rose bush will put all it’s energy into producing flowers to produce the rose hips.
By dead heading, you are stopping the process and fooling the rose bush into thinking it has to make new flowers. This works all year round, except in winter when the plant becomes dormant.

If you know you want a show of roses in 6 – 8 weeks time, as it differs with each type of rose, you simply prune the plant.

In Australia we have a famous horse race each year, the Melbourne Cup. Every year, the roses at the racecourse are in full flower for the event and other events after that race. They achieve this by pruning 6 – 8 weeks before they want the flowers out in bloom.

Roses are very hardy plants and do not need such special attention as most specialists would have you think. Roses need only one good soaking each week and good pruning or dead heading during the year.
Hard pruning back to the thicker stems, is done during winter.

Roses do like regular feeds of manure or other fertilisers, but it is NOT essential for them, as they will survive and remain healthy without the added bonus of the feeding.

You can also take rose cuttings from any stem that is as thick as a pencil. I do this at the winter prune and simply put the cuttings in my vegie garden till they sprout new shoots. When I see the new shoots, I dig the plant up and either replant in my garden or put it in a pot to give away to friends as gifts.

I hope you have found this information helpful and that you can use the information to totally enjoy your rose bushes.

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