How To Prune Your Dormant Roses Garden Class @ Green Thumb Nursery

How to properly prune your dormant roses / bare root roses. In this demonstration, Kathy demonstrates how you would prune four different kinds of roses: Hybrid Tea Rose, Floribunda Rose, Groundcover Rose and Climbing Rose.

In this class we will cover:
- Rose fertilizer recommendations and tips.
- Rose pruning tool recommendations
- Why you should cut your roses at an angle
- how to open up space in the center of your roses
- treating harmful insects on your roses
- rose hips
- pruning a hybrid tea rose
- pruning a floribunda rose
- pruning a groundcover rose
- pruning a climbing rose
- where to cut your rose canes when pruning
- importance of clearing out dead leaves from the ground surrounding your rose
- rose diseases
- copper spray for rust, black spot and mildew
- alfalfa meal
- fish bone meal
- epsom salts
- malibu compost soil topping
- john & bob's soil optimizer
- soil microorganisms
- acidic soils
- ironite products
- disease control
- shaping up the roses
- mulch
- the importance of air circulation surrounding your roses

Thanks for watching! We hope to see you soon at Green Thumb Nursery in Southern California!
We have locations in Lake Forest, San Marcos, Santa Clarita, Ventura and Canoga Park.