My cousin's 'pruning' nearly ruined my prize rose bush

If you have family visiting your garden, set clear rules. I let my cousin trim my roses and he cut them back too far, now they might not bloom this season.

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skyler6967mo ago

Did you actually show him where to make the cuts or just say "prune the roses"? I learned the hard way you gotta be super specific. I literally put little pieces of blue tape on the canes I want kept now. Or even better, take a picture and draw on it with a marker to show the exact height. Some people just don't have a feel for it.

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margaret_rodriguez7mo ago

You really think it needs to be that exact? Maybe some folks just don't care as much about the plants.

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derekl797mo ago

My wife won't even let me deadhead the marigolds after I butchered her hydrangea, so I get where @margaret_rodriguez is coming from! Some of us just don't have the green thumb gene.

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