I admit that while I can read computer manuals and understand every word, when it comes to gardening books, it all just goes right over my head.

We have several rose bushes. I go out every so often to dead-head - remove the dead flowers but leave the bud base so new flowers can bloom more easily. My stepdaughter is here for the weekend, and says that I should be cutting the entire bud off, like snipping it below the bud, leaving only the stem. I re-read my gardening book and still only see the recommendation for dead-heading, not for completely cutting the entire bud-base off. In other years, we've just dead-headed and the roses continue to bloom all summer long, so I'm leery of cutting those bud-bases off.

I know there are many experienced gardeners here...what are we supposed to do when once the bloom is finished?
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When you don't like a thing, change it.
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