When is the best time to cut back plants (roses, hortensias)?

Answer 1

The fall of the year is the best time to prune anything - any time from late September to November. The main thing to remember is in the colder months the sap goes down in your shrubbery/trees so there is less chance of damaging them in pruning.

Answer 2

You may cut back plants when they stop blooming or growing for the season. I like to prune roses in the early spring so I can get off all the branches that died during the winter. Same is true for most plants.

Answer 3

shrink it diagonally (to get maximum publicity of the cambium) purely above a node (the position yet another twig might want to come out of) - somewhat about 2 ft lengthy. shrink the right "whispy" bit off so that you may have a stick between 12 & 18 inches lengthy - stick the bottom contained in the floor (or in a pot) and it really is going to root. there's a load of previous rot about grafting onto root stocks - yet roses develop completely properly on their personal and are basic to take cuttings of (fantastically somewhat later contained in the 12 months - November/December time - although something finished now stands a quite reliable danger)

Answer 4

In Australia we usually cut back the roses around the 3rd week in July

Answer 5

October!

Answer 6

I have 14 Antique rose bushes that I baby like mad. Trim them back in September and cover roots with mulch(use your mulched tree leaves if you have them). The idea of trimming in the fall on most (I say most Mr. Landscaper) plants, shrubs is the sap stops running then, they stop becoming active.

Answer 7

Don't know where you are, and that does matter. Here in CA it is in Dec/Jan.

Answer 8

Before your first frost.

Answer 9

When they start to become aesthetically unpleasant..

Answer 10

any time before spring