I know that Imbolc is a good time to cut back my roses, but that's about all the info I've learned over the years about how gardening should be based on the Earth's cycles. I'm not talking about general "this is what you should do in the Summer"; what I'm getting at is faith-based planting, harvesting, etc. based on the Pagan calendar/beliefs/Sabbats/Esbats, etc. If I'm supposed to trim my roses back at Imbolc, what should I be doing at Beltaine? Yule? Litha? Anyone know where I might find this info?
Nightwing: I think you need to learn to read. I re-read my question three times, and nowhere to I see this quote: 'Imbolc is the day I must trim my roses", except in YOUR answer (with incorrect punctuation, to boot). Try it again. Read it slowly. If you still don't get it, why don't you just move along.

Haug: What? I'm trying to claim all as my own? When did that happen? I must have missed something...but again, I re-read my question three times, and I just don't see that.

Y'all must be really bored to be coming up with this stuff. I sure hope you enjoy yourselves! I know I'm having fun laughing at you!

http://www.paganspath.com/magik/lunarcal.htm

Bear in mind climates vary. At Imbolc I'm knee deep in snow, and there's no gardening going to happen, period. Your best bet is to join a Pagan gardening e-mail group like Barefoot in the Dirt.

I know of no Pagan faith that teaches how to garden. At best, the idea of trimming roses at Imbolc is a suggestion. One of the points of Wicca (the religion that uses the terms you're using) is to be more in tune with nature. You should trim your roses when the weather is the proper time for trimming. For some places that's going to be around Imbolc, but for other places that can be way off, and if you start insisting that 'Imbolc is the day I must trim my roses" you're actually going against what Wicca is teaching, because you're codifying your behavior instead of becoming more in tune with nature.

I'm a pagan and an avid gardener. I'd like to try to figure out what blooms around our holidays. I'm still experimenting. This is something that I'm doing personally but it isn't a practice of my particular neo-pagan religion. My gardening is in zone 5/6, so these things may or may not apply to you.

I'm trying different very early spring bulbs to see if I can find anything that will bloom around Imbolc. I may also try Witch Hazel (Hamamelis). I usually trim roses more towards the Spring equinox because in February we still have very cold winters. One purpose of spring pruning roses is to remove the winter-burnt canes. If I cut them in February, then the shorter canes would still get more winter burn, possibly killing the plant.

It's very easy to find things that bloom in my zone during Bealtainne, summer solstice, and Lughnasadh. I mulch with aged compost before the Summer solstice because after that, it's too warm and dry for the plants. I use fertilizers (especially worm poo) when the plants leaf out--whenever that is. I trim the lilacs before the summer solstice because that's when they are usually finishing up their bloom period. Mums are pinched before the summer solstice (if you pinch them after the 4th of July you'll lose blooms).

On the Autumn equinox, I'm enjoying mums and asters. I don't feed plants this time of year because I want them to prepare for winter rather than put out tender new growth. It's too warm in my zone to mulch yet.

Before Samhain, I like to have the gardens tidied up and hopefully, I've started to mulch (but I probably won't finish until Thanksgiving).. This is the time that I trim the roses back to about 3 foot tall so they don't get wind damage. Our Sweet Autumn clematis gets pruned at this time.

Around the Winter solstice, I start getting catalogs in the mail. And I start all over again dreaming about next years garden.

If you want to chat about gardening, e-mail me. I'm a bit obsessed with the subject so I love talking about it.