Don't forget to prune your roses before the window closes – experts are warning it could make all the difference to this year's flowers

Pink 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' roses growing in garden border.

If you grow roses in your garden and want them to flower well, pruning is a no-brainer. You’ll need to get started soon, though, because we’ve almost reached the end of the ideal pruning window – and given the milder weather of recent weeks, that window might creep up on us even sooner.

Above all else, you’ll need to know when it’s too late to stop pruning roses – and even though trimming the plants is one of the most important things you can do for roses in March, you’ve only got a couple of weeks left to get the task done.