Everyone knows that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, thanks to William Shakespeare, but a rose pruned at the wrong time of year? Well, doing so can cause issues – including a far slower growth time for new buds and flowers.
This in turn means that, yes, if you set to work with your pruning shears when it's too late to prune roses, they genuinely might not smell as sweet (what would the Bard have made of that, eh?).
