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Re: Pruning Once-blooming Roses

Thanks Lynn, I know that must be right.
The general conscenses is (spare on rose book) is to let
them roses be for this year. Hard to think of rose as 
anything but ''twigs'' in the winter... too many years with 
them Hybrid Teas.    :-P  
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> From: Lynn Thomson <lthomson@txdirect.net>
> To: rose-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Pruning Once-blooming Roses
> Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 5:39 AM
> 
> rosenlund wrote:
> > 
> > I think I may have ''slipped'' a noodle here.  All the sudden I'm
> > just all confused about pruning them once-blooming roses. 
> 
> Prune them right after they bloom.  You'll want to let them have
their
> head for the first few years to see what their natural shape is
going to
> be, and then work with that.  If you must prune this year, just
spur
> back the laterals and remove dead or crossing wood.
> 
> -- 
> Lynn Thomson
> San Antonio, TX - Zone 8b
> 
> http://www.txdirect.net/users/lthomson/default.html
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