When do you prune your roses?

Hi ggnom, your "pigs" sound like "suckers". Follow them down to the base of the plant, they will be shooting from below the graft level, twist them off from there. If you cut them, they'll just throw off more shoots. I prune the same as BM but the last prune is mid March. I did that thie year and they're budding up fine for June, good luck.