What Are Your Favorite Pruning Tools for Your Roses?

And What Tips Do You Have?

From the lens Pruning Roses for Garden Beauty.

  • AnthonyAltorenna Feb 13, 2012 @ 5:18 pm | delete
    Thank you for the tips! My wife loves roses, but we've never had any grow well in our yard. I'm going to try your tip about searching for a rugged 'old rose' variety.
  • ajgodinho Sep 4, 2011 @ 4:07 pm | delete
    This is a very useful and well-presented lens on pruning roses and rose bushes. **Blessed by a Squid-Angel**
  • ---Chazz Jun 21, 2011 @ 4:16 pm | delete
    The best bypass pruners I could find top my list.
  • miaponzo Jun 5, 2011 @ 12:27 am | delete
    I WISH I had roses in my garden.. I have a smallest garden in the universe!!!! :)
  • ---Chazz Jun 21, 2011 @ 4:16 pm | delete
    Try miniature roses!
  • ohcaroline Apr 14, 2011 @ 8:01 am | delete
    This is an excellent tutorial on growing roses. I've always enjoyed growing roses. Thanks for all the useful information. I needed the refresher course.
  • BigGirlBlue Oct 25, 2010 @ 1:02 am | delete
    I do not spend as much time pruning my roses as I should.
  • ZablonMukuba Oct 6, 2010 @ 10:50 pm | delete
    roses make a garden beautiful
  • teatree Jul 17, 2010 @ 10:36 am | delete
    I like old scented roses the best. They may not look much but the fragrance is great, especially when it wafts into the house through the windows on hot summer evenings.
  • Fitzcharming Jul 11, 2010 @ 3:51 am | delete
    I would love to grow tea roses like these. I don't have much luck though. Maybe after watching the video you've included here I'll give it another try.
  • Kimbesa Jul 10, 2010 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    I have some excellent bypass pruning shears and a pair of loppers. Would not be without the loppers for those larger canes!

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