Cut off spent roses . Deadheading roses (Image credit: Shutterstock) Next, ... While you’re tending to the flowers, you can prune the rose bush further where necessary.

ROSES are a garden staple in the UK but can often start to look old and shrivelled over time. Now, a gardening expert has shared the best "angle" to deadhead roses to avoid "rotting the plant".

For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to train it to cover a support.

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose ...