01/05/2022
Rose pruning.
You either love it or hate it.
For me, the process is kind of like cleaning my car. I for one hate it but sure love the end result! So a love/hate relationship perhaps?
If you’re still reading, bear with my analogy of rose pruning to car cleaning…
At first, you take out the obvious pieces that need to go like the sweatshirts and water bottles (in this analogy, the long rose canes cut down by about 2/3). It already looks better. But then you know you still have to reach under the car seats and dig down there on your hands and knees and pull out that unidentified, petrified object from six months ago (in this case, the crisscrossed, dead and/or dying rose canes, old leaves and more). You just got to do it and take out all the junk so your car/rose bush has a clean start to the season.
Lastly, you step (or crawl because you’re on your hands and knees while rose pruning) back, admire your work, and move onto the next rosebush.
It’s all worth it though so we have beautiful, healthy roses for our wedding couples and florists come spring!
