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Sign up for a newsletter and get a free herb. www.mcshanesnursery.com Steve McShane here, McShane's Nursery and Landscape Supply on how to care for your roses. Say it's summer time, roses have already popped and have their beautiful spring blooms take place, well now it is time for some summer care. So in the case of this rose here, you can tell that some of the blooms have expired. In the case of some of these, they may even be wind burned or they could have been attacked by one pest or another. When pruning your roses, generally speaking, you want to go down to the nearest junction of 5 leaves. So in the case here, all the way down to right here. We're going to cut at a 45 degree angle. Some of these blooms are still yet to come so I'm not going to touch those. This one is perfect for inside my home so I'm going to trim it right there. Again, a 45 degree angle and I'm pruning to the nearest 5 leaves. This plant here looks like it's been suffering from a bit of black spot or some rust. So any of the deseased leaves, a little bit of powdery mildew there, I'm getting rid of. See the black spot and see some of the powdery mildew. Any kinds of weeds need to go too. You can see this weed here, it needs to be pulled. Once you've got your rose bush all pruned up, you want to add a little fertilizer. I'm a big fan of this Fox Farms American Pride. It's an Organic Fertilizer: slow release naturally. It will feed three to four months. Applying this under the drip line of the plant ...