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RoseBlush1 said:Twenty roses ! WOW !

When I purchased my house, I was gifted with over 100 roses as a housewarming gift. I didn't plant all of them because some of them needed much better conditions than I could provide. However, in my BEST year, I could only plant 20 roses in one season.

Peggy, I don't know if you need help learning how to winter protect your roses in your zone, but, if you do, just ask ...

Wow 100!!! What a gift! Did they offer to help plant? Haha. Thank you so much I'm sure as we get closer to fall I'll have more questions. I've been reading alot of the post which have been so much help and found some good information from Chicago newspaper articles but I'm sure I will have more questions as they come up. From what I've read i got them just in time for a last feeding. This weekend I'll get more soil and a ton more mulch. I've been using cedar mulch. I tried regular wood mulch and had a huge ant problem. I removed it and put cedar now I hardly see any ants.