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.

Trimming carpet roses.

Winter is rose pruning time and the flower carpet or other ground cover type roses are some of the easiest to prune. Pruning roses can be intimidating to gardeners since cutting back beautiful growth seems counterintuitive and can be downright painful if the plant is unruly. Shear off or cut back the carpet rose in late fall after growth has stopped or in early spring before growth resumes. Prune for size and shape by first cutting any upward canes that are outside of the desired shape.

One of the beauties of flower carpet roses is that they don t require any fancy pruning. Easy pruning tips for flower carpet roses. That plus their good manners and low growing habit makes them just the ticket for a flowery softly scented tidy hedge around a pool. Flower carpet roses produce wave after wave of blooms for months.

As an extra bonus they re also self cleaning. As these shrubs send out new blooms the spent blossoms drop neatly to the ground. However carpet rose pruning does not need to be as exact and methodical as the pruning of other types of roses. 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.