Any rose pruning experts out there?

[KingscoteStaff]

I am currently pruning the rose bushes outside my classroom. I am using the David Austin guide which identifies them as hybrid teas. What should I do about these ones that are still flowering? Cut them and put them in a vase? Wait another month? TIA

They look like the variety Queen Elizabeth. If you are pruning now, then do the whole lot and have the flowers in a vase indoors.

That’s so interesting! The school was opened in 1953 - could they really be 70 yeas old? Surely not!

Anyway, I have taken your advice and they are now scientifically pruned and I have a beautiful vase of roses beside me in all the videos I’ve made today!!!

Queen Elizabeth was popular through the 60s and in to the 70s. But yes, I don't see why not. My mother's rose garden, planted in 1956-60, was still going strong when we sold the house in 2006,

My guess is that they were planted for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.

@MereDintofPandiculation The pruning worked!

Fabulous!

Beautiful!

Ooh well done OP, that looks gorgeous.

This is the first year I've really pruned my roses properly and quite hard and I was convinced I would kill them all, but they are looking good. Not as far forward as those ones though.

That’s the central London microclimate!

Beautiful op!

I pruned our roses right down and thought I'd gone too far, but they've grew with a vengeance and there's loads of buds and a few in bloom.

One of my bushes has black spot though so I'm scalping it today 😭 to hopefully stop it spreading to the others.

Lovely photo KingscoteStaff.
My local Co-Op was selling packeted, bare root QE roses off, at 75p each. Not wishing to be greedy I bought 2, potted them up and now they’ve recovered. I don’t expect to plant them out or any flowers this year, but when they do flower I hope they’re as lovely as yours.