What is your cold hardiness zone and where do you live? Zones aren't the only consideration. I live in zone 7 in the top tier of states, so my growing season is short thanks to latitude, though it doesn't get really cold here. Usual lows are the 20s, though an Arctic Blast can take us lower for a day. I prune every year in March. And I've never lost a rose to the cold and rarely have winter dieback, usually none. I bury the graft about 3 inches. Diane

7A - usual lows has really been maybe high 20's this year on average.

Winters just seem to be warmer in general and much less snow for sure.

It's just dieback on the tops of where I cut - I sppose top be expected.

I posted this as there was one new stem. Only about 6 inches high with a growth off of it - all from last year. There was some dieback on this (this one for sure I did not do pruning in jan). I did prune back the brown on this one , which spurned the post.

The others, all still at 4' high I know will be getting another haircut soon, so those dieback is kinda moot to some degree

Granted, we haven't seen heavy snow cover or a nor-easter wind whipper.

But in all other woody shrubs related, I've had snow load snap long ones . Sometimes they snap due to it being loaded from top vert down....Eh, with all this warm winter these days, maybe it's not a issue at all

So, you are in the East, a1an?

I'm in 7b, North Carolina, and I feel like I've left pruning too late! They say "prune when the leaf buds start to swell" but while I wasn't looking my roses started actually growing little leaves. I've tried to tell them they're early (our daffodils and forsythia have NOT bloomed) but I don't think they're listening.

I've done 4 roses, only 21.5 left. I may or may not have lost count...

Indeed Shelia. With the bud eyes showing it's face already (all the bushes are showing almost the size of a rice grain + nub), if it wasn't for the cold snap coming through this weekend, I was going prune them to 2023 -height- to get rid of one last thing on the spring chore list.

The dieback was not my concern for the most part since I knew I'm taking pruning it down even further. But I wanted to post.....as the -new- cane from soil (in which I did not prune), it did show some dieback that I remove yesterday, hopefully to stop it.

It's the 1st time it's -snowing- to some degree this winter season this year....today.

We've had a very mild winter going into Mid Feb. Then around then it started to feel like winter

Note to self. I started at least 30-45 days too early. Next year, ignore the mild winter and start the spring cleanup, dormant prune, etc closer towards March - Mid March. Yes, I think I did induce some minorly extra dieback, when I pruned too early. What can I say. The sun was out, no jacket required.