David Hill wrote:
Try treading the post in full

I did, but you're right, I mis-understood the quoted bit

"cut off every single flower bud (hundreds) on a huge old healthy shrub
rose, just before they started to open.
She told me such a magnificent flowering would "exhaust its strength and
kill it".
She was trying to save it from killing its self

Which kind of agrees with what I said. :-) But that's ok, cos Janet
already thinks I'm bonkers.