Winter Pruning versus Summer Pruning

There are some similarities. However in one case you are doing a winter cleanup and damage control and in the other case you are pruning to encourage new growth.

General Care

• Ten Steps to Beautiful Roses - Pruning - UC Tulare has additional interesting rose articles

• Roses aren't as fussy as you think. Pruning advice might not apply to old roses, but everything else is intriguing. Confirms a gardener's observation of her neighbors sheared roses.

• Fertilizing roses where they need help. 

• Fertilizing roses by Paul Zimmerman

Rose Growth

What are basal breaks?

Pruning & Deadheading

Old roses

• Jill Perry's Pruning for the Totally Timid for pruning old roses. The first video is by an East Coast pruner, but has some good tips.

• Pruning Old Roses from Tom Liggett handout

• Pruning old roses - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery

Modern roses

• History and Pruning, Deadheading Roses in a Public Display Garden and Pruning for Maximum Display - San Jose Municipal Rose Garden (videos)

• Paul Zimmerman Pruning roses video

Climbers

• Training a climber to be a pillar PZ

General

• What is a five leaf leaf set? PZ

• Rejuvinating an old rose PZ

Irrigation

• Caring for roses in the drought - UC

• Growing Roses During the Drought - Pacific Rose Society

• Drought Tolerant Roses - Tamara L.C. Johnson

• Manual for Hunter Node = Manual, Days, Prog

Rose Propagation - Karen J's recommendations

• Seed starters for cuttings - Fox Farms Light Warrior.  

• Her very, very favorite potting soil for 1 gallon and larger containers  is Fox Farms Ocean Forest.  

• When she moves her roses from the 6 pack to cups, she uses 45%/45%/10% seed starter/potting soil/perlite combo to transition from the low nitrogen seed starter mix to the higher nitrogen Ocean Forest.  

Both of these products can be purchased at most hydroponics stores. Here is a link  to the Fox Farm website.  

• If the store recommends a different seed starter, you might want to try it, however I really, really like the Ocean Forest and recommend it highly for fully rooted roses/cuttings. 

Labels

Mt. Diablo Rose Society uses these vendors:

• https://seefineflowermarker.com/ makes their stakes. For small qty, it is $1.30 per stake.

• http://www.aaaqualityengravers.com/ makes their labels and for a small qty they are $2.50 (for 10-24 labels)

Also suggested

• Garden Marker 

• Mary has another one.

Rose Deadheaders, Wonder No More!

Until we have every single rose named, we won't know exactly who is who, but we do know what kind of rose it is. While we are in rose blooming season, focus on the modern repeat-bloomers. This will give the visitors the best chance of seeing a beautiful display. The old once-bloomers can be pruned up to August. Pruning at the wrong time will cut off the blooms.

Complaints? Please note the bed number painted on the end bricks which correspond to the rose map. A bed is dry? Report it.