Regional Growing Guide: Mid-Atlantic

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Pruning Roses
There are different kinds of roses, and their pruning needs differ in terms of both technique and timing. Badly timed or overly severe pruning could destroy the coming year's blooms! Pruning Roses (http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1173.htm) is a fact-packed piece on pruning roses developed at Clemson, and it gives you clear-cut instructions on pruning the different types of roses from hybrid teas to ramblers to miniatures.

Book:

If you're interested in learning about shrub roses, Shrub Roses of Today, by Graham Stuart Thomas (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983; $23), will get you going in the right direction. Thomas, who also illustrated this beautiful book, has covered more than 350 varieties of shrub roses and included chapters on fragrance, cultivation and pruning, wild species and their hybrids, and the evolution of uses of modern hybrid shrub roses.