Rose pruning

[MissBPotter]

I’ve just grabbed a few minutes to prune my roses, but they all have lots of new growth on them already! Some of them still have flowers on even. Should I just cut back the new growth or should I just leave it? I just pruned one of them even with its new growth as it’s got very tall, but not sure about the others. I may have ruined it! I’m in the east of england and we’ve had a pretty mild winter.

No, cut them right back then feed them. They always look scarily bare and short!

Last year was the first time I pruned my roses really severely, I couldn't believe how much better they did. Covered in blooms and flowered right through to November.

Thanks I will do that! As soon as it stops raining Thanks for the reminder about feeding as well, had totally forgotten!

Best time to feed is in March - and mulch on top of the feed. Don’t overfeed, can do more harm than good.

Feed and mulch again in July, once they’ve had their first lot of blooms.

Agree, cutting mine back for the first time last year was a bit nerve-wracking. They grew loads, lots of flowers. Cutting back again last week filled a garden waste bin!

Severely chopped mine this week too, my in laws are gardeners who say it's hard to mess up with roses and pruning so hoping for the best lol 😆

Sorry to hijack but I'm also nervous about pruning mine. Do you prune back to ground level @Furries or just do the main stem?