Rose Gardening : How to Prune a Knock Out Rose Bush

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A Knock Out rose bush requires little pruning, but trimming it back in the early spring will promote new and healthy growth. Prune back a Knock Out rose bush by one-third with helpful information from a sustainable gardener in this free video on roses. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Washington. She is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com and has sold flower bulbs for more than 15 years. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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LOL,,this is NOT a knockout rose bush!

how unprofessional you are ! a sessior like that and no gloves

I love knock out rose bushes :) I never water my seven sister rose bush! It's almost 4 foot tall :)

Knockout roses are like iron - but don't hurt the crown. I enjoy the thorns more than the flowers. If it's not next to a fence simply use a hedge trimmer and hack away at it - it won't hurt the plant at all.

Thank you for letting me know how it goes. I am very much happy to learn this very important process. This will really help you out and I believe that these ideas could help you produce a very healthy and productive roses in the end.

this maybe a silly question but I've been having an argument with someone who keeps pruning the stems of our rose bush but complains the branches aren't growing and so the bush must be dead! it was cut right back a few years ago, it's pretty lush but has remained very compact for the last 2 seasons - maybe I'm wrong but don't the stems develop into branches and should be just left alone if you want branches to grow and spread?

In 2013 parts of Texas have had a "plague" of grasshoppers that have stripped leaves and roses from some of our knockout rose bushes. If I cut the roses to 18 inches, will the Knockouts survive? We used a vegetable and garden spray to kill the grasshoppers, but after a rain, we have to respray. Other suggestions for saving Knockout Roses? We're also spraying Crape Myrtles, pecan trees, peach trees and pomegranite bushes. In 2012 we lost a 20ft. pecan tree to grasshoppers!

Thank you for your tips on knockout roses I have one that has grown huge and I wack the mess out of it it is very hard to kill these bushes my husband and I tried to dig up a few of the bushes we had and could not get all of the roots and a few months later we had a new bush growing from the roots we missed so a the negative comments are from "rose growers" with traditional bushes not knockout roses these people need to go back to their roses that get diseases and be quiet.

Rose Pruning with Lynn Hillman representing Rogers Gardens will show you what a rose pruning demo is suppose to look like. And yes, I realize this woman is showing you the Easy/Totally Lazy way to prune, I guarantee once you see Lynn's video you will see how much work SHOULD go into pruning, unless you want a bush that shows dead roses at all times. I'm fine with having a wild looking, not so uniformed bush, but prune it properly and it will look so much better with much new growth and new roses

You might as well have a 3 yr old just start hacking away at your poor plant. That was a HORRIBLE demo. That was basically the most lazy way to prune a rose. I realize that's somewhat the whole idea she was trying to convey yet if you follow her advise you are risking loosing 100% of your plant. Her demo gives zero positive feedback. You NEED to look at what part you cut, not just at a certain angle. I recommend watching ROGERS GARDENS video. I will look up the exact name it's under and post.

theoretically that is the worse pruning demonstration iv'e ever seen.

Thanks for the info. I have some that have really taken off in the past year and i am wanting to cut them back before they come back in the Spring.

Thanks for advice. Growing roses is a fun pastime.

Theoretically you never ever prune back a rose bush in the fall or winter. Early spring is best. I never let my Knock Out Rose get big and round. I leave three main shoots from the bottom and prune from below the plant first. This gives the lower plant good airflow and no branches in the soil to invite pests. I like the look of a well pruned rose bush so in the spring I cut back a third starting from the bottom. Mine is in a bed and it is 2 ft by 4 ft even after many years.

It is so entertaining to me that there are thousands of videos on propagating, pruning and starting roses on youtube. Always respect patents. The videos are based on Google searches. Propagating plants with patents and selling them is illegal and I know this because I am a Master Gardener~ Thanks for watching me on youtube! You can find me on Facebook and Twitter!

I am sick of looking at my 4yo knockout roses. Pruned them in early spring as everyone recommends--it's now June and they're still just a tangle of leggy and ugly canes. Weeding around them is impossible. I'm ready to dig them out and replace them with civilized shrubbery.

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thank you for sharing your knowledge. Can I also plant those cut branches? Will they thrive?