Fact checked by Jillian Dara Roses, long a gardener's favorite and our country's National Flower, still suffer from the reputation of being hard to grow. In reality, many modern roses like 'Knock Out' ...

Just about every landscape now has one of these types of roses. No matter what type of rose you have in the landscape, pruning will help ... such as the Knockout, EarthKind ® and other types ...

Orpheus clarified that when pruning a rose in this manner, "you don't need to hold back". He encourages gardeners to just "go for it" as it'll be worth it come summer. Pruning the plant in this ...