freedombel said:overing them is an excellent idea.
No different winter than usual, We replanted many roses after making a better bed for them with good soil and compost, many of them
are getting new leaves and many buds, looks promising. This winter I am thinking of covering them all.
Covering is an excellent idea. All it takes is one bad year for disappointment to set in.
Up where my gardens are, the area of the south one thirty below is very rare, but up by my north garden I have seen forty below three time in the past twenty years.
I spoke to a rose professional about the number of roses I lost compared to my total.
He said I was doing better than average; he also said up here, he has never met a person, including professionals who do not lose roses.
Uncovering too soon, is one of the most common reasons up here.
Roses can go through hell in late fall with little harm but uncover them and get a cold snap into the low twenties or teens and some times that is certain death, even though they die slowly.
They kind of just fade away.
