By Ashley48
Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom 
I have a guilder rose which has grown rather tall and scraggly through being rather over-grown by other plants. Is there a way I can safely give it a hard prune to regain a more rounded shaped?
2 Aug, 2016
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I thought it was pruned straight after flowering?
2 Aug, 2016
Yes, ideally, but it seems pretty tough, and I do mine at random times (perhaps I shouldn't give advice?!)
2 Aug, 2016
I'm a random gardener as well, and I haven't actually pruned mine yet. I was just thinking that cutting it in winter might reduce the flowering in the spring?
2 Aug, 2016
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Yes, it will happily grow again next Spring if you hard prune it when it is dormant.
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