What equipment, materials and tools do you need for rose pruning?

Rose pruning can only be fun (for you and your roses) if you have the right materials and tools for the job. Follow this advice when selecting the equipment, materials and tools you will need for rose pruning.

• Prune your roses with a sharp
  sterile and clean pair of secateurs.
• A sharp and clean long handled-lopper is a great tool when pruning
  older and larger rose bushes.
• Severe pruning of older rose bushes often requires a sharp garden saw.
• A healthy pair of strong, (preferably leather) gloves minimizes
  injury from thorns and prevents
  blisters when pruning a number
  of rose
  bushes.
• Use Oleum, lime sulphur or Citrex
  to treat your roses against pests
  and diseases after pruning.
• Compost, general rose fertilizer
  and bone meal or superphos
  phate should be added to roses after pruning.

  You should also take along your new best gardening tool,
  www.plantinfo.co.za on a smartphone or tablet to follow rose
  pruning instructions and other
  relevant pruning advice.