Your "My page" information indicates your are in Iran. The World Federation of Rose Societies does not list anything In the Mid East so this advice is based on warm climate rose growing.. If your roses grow year round with no winter dormancy. pruning back during the slower growing times of the year will promote more and larger blooms. Because modern roses bloom best on new growth, pruning will promote that growth, especially as spring approaches. Pruning once a year blooming roses will remove the bloom so they should not be pruned until after they bloom. Not pruning can result in tall leggy plants with smaller blooms. Better to prune during cooler weather, short daylight, and slow bloom cycles. If that means removing the beautiful flowers, that's a decision you'll have to make. I'd prune now and enjoy more and better flowers later.

Ken, the new enemy of plantkind on The Neighbor's Plot side is the punk 20ish son (or illegal tenant?) of the Chinese upstairs next door neighbor. Of the Friday night knock-down drag-out fights with his significant other. Of the chintzy 99 cent store signs he stuck all over the garden I had just created. He is a pig, leaving cigarette butts all over their side of the lawn and some in my garden. The first time I saw a filthy disgusting cigarette butt in my garden, my ears laid back, my claws came out and my howls could be heard for blocks. But I decided to take the kindness route. What do you do with "lost" objects? You return them, of course! I meticulously picked up the 20+ butts this pig left all over the lawn and garden and "returned" them onto the porch. There is now a growing and disgusting collection of cigarette butts all around the ground on their side of the porch---you don't think the father (or illegal landlord?) of this punk could bother to stoop down, gather the butts and toss 'em into the garbage can right there, do you? Naw. He just kicks them off the porch onto the ground all around the porch and on the ground leading up from the hill to the side of the porch. What a comforting and soothing sight upon one's return home, I tell ya. It is indescribably disgusting. Now, about my little spirea shrub--which happens to be planted in The Neighbor's Plot garden. You can see where the heavier canes end and newer, slighter growth began last fall. The newer growth is what it accomplished before our first freeze last fall. I was thinking of trimming it down to a bit below where last year's new growth begins, to stimulate some heavy new growth this year. THIS is the shrub I planted to act as a sunscreen for the delicate Midas Touch heuchie I planted there. It seemed to work, as the Midas Touch began to send up nicer looking leaves which were not sunburned after I planted Ms. Spirea. The heavy snows actually removed some of the soil around one of the hostas' roots. The roots are now partially exposed, along with what should imminently be pips. Can hardly wait to see my little guys spring into action! Patience, after all that snow, is a rare commodity.

probably could take it all the way down.. a 'run it over with the truck' type plant ... but just pick 1/3 to 1/2 ... and cut them out ... then next year.. take those out ... no real need to make it a 3 years project ... the problem is cutting at height ... frankly.. if you cut one .. at ground.. it will be nearly the same size by next summer... if you do that at say 4 feet.. then it will be 4 feet plus another 4 feet.. and it will all flop ... that is the point with rejuvenation pruning... cutting to the ground ... ken

Thanks a bunch!! They are in a spot that gets sun just about all day so I think they get plenty of sun. They are a pretty shaped plant just not real full plus the blooms stay towards the middle of the plant. Gorgeous when it blooms though and its blooming some right now. Thanks again. Judy