QUESTION: Last year I planted a hydrangea just off my patio and it produced a couple of blooms. This year I'm waiting to exhale: There's no sign of a bloom anywhere on the bush, although the leaves are green and healthy.ANSWER. For hydrangea gardeners, June is either agony or ecstasy. You get a great show of gorgeous blooms from your mopheads destined to bloom from late spring into early summerr —or you get nothing.However, you may simply be a bit ahead of the game by expecting white blooms now. Perhaps you have one of the fine late-summer bloomers, such as Tardiva or Limelight, that bloom then. Perhaps yours is an Annabelle, a summer bloomer that bears big white blooms, but should be showing something by now.If it is an oak-leaf hydrangea, which bears white flowers, it should have been in full bloom for several weeks. I counsel patience. If your plant was just set out last year, it is still settling in and devoting much of its energy to producing roots. Hopefully, later this year, you may see blooms — or next year for sure. Don't prune it until you learn what kind it is once it blooms.Tend your rosesMany kinds of roses have finished their first wave of bloom. Light pruning now will encourage fresh growth that will produce new buds and blooms on most varieties. The exception is some of the old-fashioned heirloom shrub roses that bloom on the previous year's growth. These roses can be pruned now, severely if needed, to improve their shape and size and remove the oldest canes.Modern hybrid tea, floribunda and landscape roses bloom on new growth, which should continue through the warm months. Cut stems with spent blooms back to just above a leaf divided into five leaflets. New growth will arise there.