Roses

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Can someone please help with what I should be doing with this Rose plant?

Should I be pruning it or doing anything over the winter and if so can you help with where please?

I've looked endlessly online and am still clueless and killed the last one.

Remove all dead or diseased leaves, including all fallen ones, and leave alone until the first week of February.

Do you know what sort of rose it is - does it have a name? Different varieties need to be pruned in different ways (which is probably why you are so confused), so if you can tell us that we can advise you. But all of them respond best to being pruned in early spring. I remember once hearing somebody on a gardening programme say that it was easy to remember that they need doing by Valentine's Day.

I’d put it in the ground now, while it’s dormant. It’s going to struggle in that little pot. Remember roses love the sun so where you plant it will depend on its wellbeing. I usually prune mine in January but I’m in the south so it’s a little milder here.

Thank you very much.

It's called Rosa Savoy Hotel Hybrid Tea

Should that be treated a particular way?

The pot is too small. Do you intend to ever plant it into the ground or do you want it in a pot? If so get a larger one and some good soil and transplant now, removing dead foliage. Water it when the temp is above freezing and not expected to freeze overnight. Do not prune till spring.

Where are you keeping it right now?

it’s going to starve in the pot. it does ideally need to be planted in the ground in a sunny spot. plenty of compost. If you can’t plant it out then give it a bigger pot, compost to the top of the pot.

prune to about 6-8 inches taking off the leaves as a poster said above. Take off all leaves to avoid black spot and start feeding in the spring every 2 weeks with some fertilizer.

I went to a David Austin talk this year and it’s recommended to feed roses a lot to avoid black spot !!

It definitely needs a bigger pot and a lot more soil. Does that pot have plenty of drainage holes?

Just looked it up, it’s pruning group 15. But yours is quite young, so don’t chop it madly. So just take 2 inches off the top. And repot.