Rose pruning made easy: some simple guidelines 

As Captain Barbossa said, "It's not really a code, more like a set of guidelines". So here are the general guidelines for pruning roses. Armed with these guiding principles you can prune all your regular roses.
Heritage roses, standard roses, and bush roses are done slightly differently - but I have videos on all those at: / @gardenosophy .
Thanks to Flikr for the thumbnail!