Welcome! Roses will usually continue to bloom until it gets too cold for them to or they don't get enough sunlight to produce any more buds. That's dormancy. Pruning is usually done right before the roses begin to grow again, usually late winter/very early spring. Depending on your area, you probably can prune anytime between now and late February. I couldn't find anything on gardening zones in Iran, but if your roses are blooming now, I would guess that you are in an area where roses don't really go dormant. In that case you can prune now (and take all the blooms inside as the previous poster suggested). If you don't prune, your roses can get tall and lanky and only bloom on the top.

Did he buy 'Climbing Golden Glow', or the bush form (just called 'Golden Glow')? In either event, newly planted roses DO NOT need to be pruned, or trained - just leave it alone. It is busy growing new roots. This takes a while. Make sure it does not go without water very long. You can deadhead the old blooms of you want. (That means just cut off the dead flower or developing hip where the flower was - no more). This will encourage it to bloom more. If it is the Cl Golden Glow, eventually (in a year or two) it will start to put out large long new climbing canes. They will get very long very fast. That is when you can start to train it. Let the new climbing canes alone long enough so that they are not so soft that you will damage them. Then, when they are no longer soft, you can tie them gently to a support. The more horizontally you are able to tie them, the better. They will sprout new growth that will bloom all along their length. Good Luck! Jackie

I'm sure it won't hurt, just build up your trough with the mulch and don't lay it too thick on the inside so water can easily get through it, maybe an inch or so? Mom always did that with hers, keeps the roots cool and wet. You can also find some type of ground cover to plant around it next season, or whenever you are done moving it around lol. Something that can handle being trimmed if necessary is and fast growing, but won't take all the food from the rose. There's this stuff here in Indiana that's got little yellow flowers and creeps over the ground, grows like a weed just about anywhere and can take over if you're not careful, really resistant to both wet and dry weather and can handle hard freezes and blaring sun with no worries; we put it in all of our empty-looking flower beds that have big, tall plants but it chokes out smaller things like hyacinth (don't know if I spelled that right... oops). After a quick Google search I found the name of it, Czar's Gold Sedum. The link is a place to buy it and the only one I could find that looks like ours, not sure if it will grow well where you're at but hopefully it will help give you a place to start looking if you want to give something like it a try. :3 Here is a link that might be useful: Czars Gold Sedum, takes a bit of scrolling down to find it This post was edited by SasorisPuppet on Fri, Apr 11, 14 at 11:15

elleni, Best way to know exactly what is dead? Wait a couple more weeks! I have many rose bushes - the best way I have found to decide where and what to cut is to wait until they have leaf buds on them and cut off anything beyond those - it'll be dead. Then, it's a matter of shaping to what you like. "Knock out" tends to be kind of a pillar rose - long whippy stems that kind of waterfall - make sure you cut just above bud unions at a slight diagonal and it should start to bush out more. Best gloves? More expensive - but the best rose gloves are real kidskin at least on the palms. Rose thorns'll go through regular leather and any cloth. I hear that "Foxgloves" work too, but I haven't tried those. I use GardensAlive! rose food for mine, though I seem to have a wonderful compromise with the wildlife in winter. I let the bunnies and snowshoe hares trim the bottoms of the bushes and they leave me - well - the bottoms of the bushes in one of the best forms of fertilizer there is: bunny poo! :) -Marie