"Pete The Gardener" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:24:39 +0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis
wrote:


Hi,

If impatient, the bottom-line question is "will I kill a rose if I
prune too early"?

Snip

So, am I rightly tempted to prune this one? And will I kill it if it's
hit by even harder frost?

Hi Kostas

I'm in Scotland too and I'm itching to get out there and prune the roses.
Trouble is, I did it one year too early (ground and pots) and, as Pete said,
I did get die back and as I had pruned nice n tidy, there wasn't much left
to flower that year. They did ok the following year though so weren't
killed.

I now hang on til mid-March.

--A