Q: We have inherited some rose bushes with the house we bought last fall. Would you be able to tell us when and how to prune them this spring? -- Tim and Marcie, Watertown A: There is so much to learn ...

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Mark McKinney hits zen most days. Clutching his surgically sharp pruners, bent over one of 5,700 roses in North Portland’s , McKinney said, the world outside the garden nearly ceases to exist. “When ...