How to Prune Hybrid Tea Roses

By Peter Kukielski

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Pruning roses stimulates growth and flowering, and removes dead, weak or sickly canes that can drain energy from the rose and encourage disease. In this video, Peter Kukielski, curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, demonstrates the best way to prune hybrid tea roses.

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misterdofjd 09/05/2016
Taught me a lot. Don't know if I will have the nerve to cut back so much.

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