• slide
  • slide
  • slide
  • slide
  • slide
  • slide
  • slide

How to Harvest Rose Flowers

Enjoy your roses outdoors in the garden or indoors in a vase.  Extend their vase life and insure your rose plant’s health with proper harvesting. 

Carry a clean bucket of fresh water out to the garden.  This will help keep your cut flowers fresh while harvesting other flowers.

Use sharp bypass pruners when cutting roses for your indoor enjoyment. Cut rose flowers early in the morning just as the top of the bud is starting to open. This will maximize its vase life. 

Make the cut on a slight angle above an outward facing bud above a 5-leaflet leaf.    The new stems that sprout from this bigger cut will be thicker and sturdier.  For younger plants you may only be able to prune back to a 3-leaflet leaf.

Remove lower leaves and recut the stem to the desired length on a slight angle.  This prevents the stem from sealing to the bottom of the vase, preventing water uptake.

A bit more information:  Add a few other garden fresh flowers to your arrangements.  Baby’s breath, yarrow, phlox, Helenium, salvia, veronica, lilies, lady’s mantle leaves and flowers, and hosta leaves are a few perennials to include in your garden and flower arrangements.

Upcoming Live Events
& Webinars


March 27, 2024
FREE WEBINAR

How to Start a Garden for Beginners
Register now

April 3, 2024
Garden Trends 

Franklin Public Library, Franklin, WI

April 10, 2024
FREE WEBINAR

Container Gardening Throughout the Year
Register now

April 11, 2024
FREE WEBINAR

7 Steps to Managing Water Where it Falls in Your Yard
Register now

April 17, 2024
Landscaping for Birds: 
A Gardener’s Perspective

Glendale, WI 

April 18, 2024
Be a Waterwise Gardener
Golden Rondelle Theater, Racine, WI
Register now

April 20, 2024
Pruning Hydrangeas and Other Shrubs 
Pasquesi Home & Gardens, Lake Bluff, IL

April 27, 2024
Ridges & Rivers Book Festival
Viroqua, WI

April 28, 2024
Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Ebert's Greenhouse Village, Ixonia, WI

May 1, 2024
FREE WEBINAR

Ornamental Fruits and Vegetables
Register now

May 9, 2024
FREE WEBINAR

How to Plant Your Rain Garden
Register now

WATCH ON-DEMAND WEBINARS

Learn More

Book an Appearance

Learn More

Enter to Win The Birds & Blooms' Ultimate Gardening Guide !

ENTER NOW