We inherited a rose garden full of very old bushes. In December I chopped all of them back, kind of half hoping that they would finally give up the ghost and I could plant some new ones…but they all came back with a vengeance. Each bush has 12-15 blooms on it. I guess they just needed some tough love.
Yeah, they say roses are pretty forgiving and love to be pruned hard! I wish ours would turn up their toes, and then Himself brings me a bud in a vase to put by my bedside and I soften……:-)