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Top Ten Best Rose Education Web Sites

Gaga's Garden Susan Fox Names Top 10 Rose Resources
Rose Education Resources based on the following criteria:
Gardening Expertise
Writing Style, Voice, and Tone
Cultivating a Gardening Community
Authenticity and Originality and Knowledge

Source: https://extension.illinois.edu/roses/prune.cfm

Pruning - Our Rose Garden - University of Illinois Extension

Dead-heading is the removal of faded flowers before they can develop seed. Dead-heading is a form of summer or day-to-day pruning. The standard recommendation is to cut the flower stem back to an outward-facing bud above a five-leaflet or seven-leaflet leaf.

The Minnesota Rose Gardener

Author's note: This is the most important blog I have written.  I am advocating a new way of growing roses; contradicting the convention...