Easy pruning tips for flower carpet roses.
Trimming carpet roses.
Unlike most roses you don t have to worry about where you re cutting along the stem or about pruning them any particular way.
As an extra bonus they re also self cleaning.
They can be trimmed throughout the year to maintain shape and size and then once a year in late winter cut the bush back to rejuvenate and reinvigorate the plant.
Shear off or cut back the carpet rose in late fall after growth has stopped or in early spring before growth resumes.
However carpet rose pruning does not need to be as exact and methodical as the pruning of other types of roses.
As these shrubs send out new blooms the spent blossoms drop neatly to the ground.
Winter is rose pruning time and the flower carpet or other ground cover type roses are some of the easiest to prune.
Trim shrub ground cover roses in february or march when you see new growth.
Flower carpet roses produce wave after wave of blooms for months.
One of the beauties of flower carpet roses is that they don t require any fancy pruning.
Simply cut the rose back so that it is about a foot tall or cut off the top two thirds of the plant using a.
Pruning roses can be intimidating to gardeners since cutting back beautiful growth seems counterintuitive and can be downright painful if the plant is unruly.