Question
QUESTION: I live in NE Louisiana. I have several types of roses from a rose tree to climbing roses to bushes to some roses that send out limbs up to 4 ft. Are they supposed to bloom all summer? Do I dead head them to keep them blooming?

ANSWER: It is always a good idea to dead head a rose as it may make a rose hip and then stop blooming. Once a rose has set seed it feels there is no more need to make a flower. Just snap the dead flowers off with your fingers.

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QUESTION: OK so dead heading and pruning are 2 separate tasks I take it. On the roses that have long limbs do I cut any of the limb part off?
Are the roses supposed to bloom all summer?

Answer
You only cut a long limb off if it is getting in the way of another plant or you don't want it as long. Roses bloom is mainly two flushed. They grow and produce flower buds in the spring and then bloom. But then they have to build up more flower buds and so there is always a period in the summer when there are only a few flowers on the rose. Finally when they have made the flower buds, they blooms again. Some nursery advertise that roses bloom continuously but that isn't true, it just looks like they do because there are a few blooms on them when they are resting.