If a rose doesn’t produce hips (seed pods), it will need deadheading for a couple of reasons. First, dead flowers don’t look nice, and second, removing them helps the plant bloom faster. After a flower has finished blooming, the stem holding it will naturally die back. By cutting off the spent flower, you speed up the process of new blooms forming.

For single flowers, cut just above the next or lower leaf joint, as that’s where the next flower will grow. For clusters of flowers, you can cut individual dead ones as they fade, but once all are finished, remove the whole cluster by cutting down to the next or lower leaf joint.

On large climbing roses, deadheading can be trickier, so you might have to leave a few spent flowers. Don’t worry—they’ll fall off on their own eventually.