Zu, as always, you come through for me and my roses just when we need you! I'd heard about the no-pruning method as well and tend to do less and less pruning these days, but what I didn't know was about leaving the dead and yellow leaves. Those are the very ones I've been meticulously trying to pick up and dispose of! When I was outside yesterday, I was barely taking off some of the winterburned tips and dead stems, more for aethetics than anything else. I'll end up making a round about the yard and just nipping here and there, but with Geschwind's Orden I'll have to be ruthless. It's infringing way out of the space I've assigned it and I should probably give some thought to moving it soon, along with New Dawn and another NOID heritage rose my mother rooted for me, but it's a rampant rambler and the thorns are merciless.
Good info, Zu! Thank you so much.
