Advice for Rose Bush please
NewbyDimmock
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Today some lovely secateurs arrived in the post and I am ready to start pruning 
for my old, large rose bush I have 2 questions please:
1) Can anyone advise, for the crossing branches, should I cut off the thick brown old branch or the thinner (but healthy looking) new green one?
2) Around the bottom there is a shasta daisy infestation. Should I pull them up or can they live in harmony? (Last year the rose suffered badly from black spot, but so it seems did all my friends' roses too)
Thank you for any advice!
for my old, large rose bush I have 2 questions please:1) Can anyone advise, for the crossing branches, should I cut off the thick brown old branch or the thinner (but healthy looking) new green one?
2) Around the bottom there is a shasta daisy infestation. Should I pull them up or can they live in harmony? (Last year the rose suffered badly from black spot, but so it seems did all my friends' roses too)
Thank you for any advice!
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It may be best if you post this same question on the Rose group thread at: https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1059087/roses-autumn-winter-season-2021-22#latest
If you can attach a photo or two that would help as well — click on the ‘mountain’ icon and make sure the photo file is less than 6MB in size.
I would consider removing the daisies, as roses don’t like competition for nutrients and water close to their roots.
You can try cropping the photo slightly and then re-uploading it, that usually does the trick.