Hi Marcella,
I am by no means a rose expert-all of my roses have contracted a terminal virus called “rose rosette virus” so my confidence in rose care has really gotten whacked this year-no pun intended. I went to the davidaustinroses.com website. There is some helpful info there on pruning and fertilizing.
I don’t believe you need to be fertilizing now. It’s better to start that when new growth starts popping out. They say pruning is best done late winter but it is not an exact science. The reason why you don’t prune now is that you don’t want to stimulate growth now and also the plant might have more die back between now and spring that would necessitate you needing to prune even more dead stuff off in spring. I wouldn’t worry about your recent pruning. You are in zone 8? Someplace warm? Shouldn’t be a problem. I certainly wouldn’t worry about it. You can add compost to your roses now. That wouldn’t hurt and compost is good for everything. Hope this helps. At least you aren’t like me-I’ve 9 knockout roses I need to completely dig up and dispose of. Plus about 4 climbers in the back yard. I’m so depressed about it. Trying to figure out what to replace the knockouts with-they were all across the front of our east facing house. I’m thinking of trying azaleas or something.
Talk about depressing: Because I love roses, after much research, I went with David Austin roses due to their resistance to disease. My back garden space was covered with David Austin Roses and the lattice on the back wall was covered with climbing David Austin roses. All these roses were variations of pink.
They were cooked in the 104-107 heat in 2011 and except for these two, they all died. You can imagine how bad I felt, all these roses gone. I pulled them all up as there was nothing else to do.
These two that are still alive were on the left side of the garden and they got a bit of shade during the afternoon so they didn’t burn up.
Thanks for your suggestions. I will copy them so I won’t lose it.