This is how the perfect pruning succeeds

Cut off the wilted

To keep your blooming potted roses attractive, you should remove the dead flowers regularly. Cleaning out takes only a few minutes and is easy to do with daily watering. If you don't have that time, cut off everything withered at least once a week. By cleaning out regularly, you stimulate the potted roses to form new buds and thus extend the flowering time of your plants.

The annual pruning

For most types of roses, regular pruning is important for flowering, and this also applies to potted roses. If they are not pruned, they will only set a few flowers because they only sprout a few.

Is your potted rose unsightly or too big for that Winter quarters, then prune the plant back a little. The “correct” pruning should, however, only take place in spring. Should your potted rose get too much frost in winter and some shoots freeze to death, then there will be enough healthy wood left for a new shoot.

How are potted roses properly cut?

The ideal time to prune your potted roses is in March or April, or when the buds begin to form. So-called blind shoots, on which there are no flowers, can be cut off at any time of the year. So that you do not injure your potted roses when cutting and do not transmit diseases, make sure you have clean and sharp tools.

First cut all diseased and / or frozen shoots back into the healthy wood. Also, remove any shoots that seem very weak to you. Then shorten the healthy shoots well. The more you prune your potted rose, the more vigorously it will sprout and bloom.

The most important cutting tips in brief:

• Cut off dead flowers as soon as possible
• careful pruning possible in autumn
• intensive pruning only in spring

Budding controllable by pruning

• uncut roses will bloom less
• only use clean cutting tools