On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:01:58 -0400, "Steve" wrote:

These are 1st year plants and going terrific, wondering if I need to
deadhead them?

You bet! It stimulates the plant to make more blooms! In the fall, you
stop deadheading/cutting for the vase so that the rose knows to go to
sleep and stop making tender new growth that might freeze and harm the
plant as winter deepens.