[Arid_gardener] Rose bush pruning

[Steve Sheard]

Dear Paul,
I am not a master gardener but I am a consulting rosarian with the American Rose Society. The short answer is YES.
If you want some tips on pruning make your way down to Mesa Community College at Southern & Dobson where we have a rose garden of 7,000 bushes. We do rose pruning classes every Saturday in January & February at 9:00am. Bring a pair of pruners.

The freeze is only a problem when we have new buds and pruning now you will not see new buds for a few weeks, by then it will be warming.

Regards
Steve Sheard
http://www.roses4az-mevrs.org/Home.html


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Hendricks <pdhend at cox.net>
To: arid_gardener at CALS.arizona.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:19:11 PM
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Rose bush pruning


It’s 1/17/08 and a hard freeze is planned for tomorrow morning; can I prune rose bushes back now or should I wait until after the freeze?
Thank you.


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