My order will be shipped here November 19. I'm trying hard not to add any more, since I don't have a clear plan on where to plant the ones I already have on order. The roses I received this spring from both Palatine and Edmunds struggled in the heat this year, and didn't grow like I expected. The palatine roses out performed the Edmunds roses, though. The roses from my Austin order did the best of all, and what is surprising there is, they are planted out so far that they rarely got any water, and all of them are in full sun.
I've never had great luck planting in the fall, but if summers continue to be so extreme, then fall planting may be the best way to go. Other than mulching, what do you suggest?
I did plant some bare root, totally dormant roses last November, but we had an extremely mild winter, and fortunately, they stayed dormant until spring, when they started growth at the same time as the older roses.
Will the roses I get from Palatine this November be dormant? We (usually) have long mild fall weather, and the soil doesn't freeze until January, and sometimes not at all.
Except for those occasional winters when we get -17 degrees .....it's so hard to know what to do!
