How to Prune Old Roses?

They have lots of dead wood, very old Woody stems and this is how we're going to go about pruning  them. We'll use a pair of loppers a chainsaw   for the very old wood and secateurs or pruners,  and a pruning saw to tidy up any rough or uneven   cuts. The chainsaw we use is a small electric  one easy to use and manipulate and the small   chain seems to leave a fairly clean cut on these  old wooden stems.

This first rose has lots of   Tangled growth so to make things easier will we  move that from the top, this way we won't damage   any growth below that we want to retain. Next it's  any Deadwood very old Woody stems and any spindly   growth these thin spindly stems won't produce good  growth , so remove them.

When you prune roses what   you're doing is encouraging. It to send out new  shoots so the harder you prune it cutting it down low then the more shoots. You're going to get from  down low and you'll start to get a regenerated or rejuvenated rose bush. After you've done all of  the heavy pruning just go around and tidy up any   bits to reduce the height clean up any rough Cuts  with secateurs and you're finished.

So remember, hard pruning like this you'll encourage good  strong growth from down below and a better looking  plant with more flowers, and these ones up here. We  might leave them for the moment take them back to there and above a node somewhere up  there. The second rose is a little   smaller and easier. Rip into that spindly  stuff okay.

However it still needs a hard   prune to encourage that fresh new growth  that we wanted so we'll quickly show you   how to prune this one as well . Might want  to do that one in two goes because it's   otherwise it'll get all tangled up so cut  off the one that's going through it first [Chain Saw] mhm I [Chain Saw] it this one's almost Beyond it yeah  but go as low as you can Down here? yeah. We just get the lopers and cut those two  bit off.

 Here are our roses about 4 weeks after being pruned and they're already starting to put  on new growth and here they are back in flower. It's after a heavy storm but they're still looking  good with lots of New Growth. With any roses. It's a good idea to fertilize them after pruning  just use any general purpose Rose fertilizerNor indeed any general purpose organic  fertilizer.

If it's dry it's also a good idea to water. Your roses after you've  pruned them these Roses or you could prune   them probably haven't been pruned, It doesn't  matter years. It doesn't really matter that much but if you're in really cold areas prune  them in Spring. After the danger of frosts and   freezes as passed.