Are your roses on order or do you wait to buy them in a nursery? Have you begun to prune?  I wait for the forsythia to bloom – not quite there yet.  Every year my sister asks me to help her with pruning her out of bounds New Dawn.  Every year I tell her to go back to Stephen Scaniello’s book “A Year of Roses.”  That New Dawn in her yard is a thug; it needs to be tamed.  I advise, get out the lopers!