It's okay if you don't. However if it really bothers you you can buy a long handled pruning shears. It's a pole with two blades at the top. One is a non- moving blade and the other closes against it by pulling on a rope that feeds to the handle.
I have 2 recommendations. #1 Get a piece of 3/4" x 5' long PVC pipe to the end of the pipe tape a piece of coat hanger wire. Leave about 8" of the wire extending past the pipe and bend a hook in the end of the wire. You'll be able to hook the canes or stems and pull it to you making deadheading your roses easily. #2 By one of those "grabbers" that old people (like myself) use to pick things up that is out of reach. Hope on of these work for you.
Depending on your health and physical abilities you could use a ladder and pruning shears, or you could enlist the help of a local teenager, and pay them a few dollars.
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It's okay if you don't. However if it really bothers you you can buy a long handled pruning shears. It's a pole with two blades at the top. One is a non- moving blade and the other closes against it by pulling on a rope that feeds to the handle.
I have 2 recommendations. #1 Get a piece of 3/4" x 5' long PVC pipe to the end of the pipe tape a piece of coat hanger wire. Leave about 8" of the wire extending past the pipe and bend a hook in the end of the wire. You'll be able to hook the canes or stems and pull it to you making deadheading your roses easily. #2 By one of those "grabbers" that old people (like myself) use to pick things up that is out of reach. Hope on of these work for you.
Master Rosarian Bill
If you leave them, it will provide rose hips for the birds.
Depending on your health and physical abilities you could use a ladder and pruning shears, or you could enlist the help of a local teenager, and pay them a few dollars.
Also, I don't think that you *have* to prune them if you don't want to..