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May 13, 2014 11:03 AM CST
Name: Elaine
Sarasota, Fl
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Wow, Mr. Lincoln is a pretty hardy one in my experience! Surprised it was damaged last winter.

No matter which you choose to replace your losses, the one thing I learned when we lived in Utah (high altitude, very cold dry winters) was to mulch very deeply in the late fall. I used to pile up the wood chip mulch around the plant base, then pile all my dead leaves up around the canes of the roses as high as I could. It not only insulated the roots from the cold, and from 'heaving' in spring when there were freeze/thaw cycles, it kept the soil around the roots much more moist.

I never lost a rose to winter in 21 years living there. I had about 20 roses, and did not choose any for hardiness, just the flower colors and fragrance I liked. Double Delight was a favorite, Peace, Brandy, Tropicana, Just Joey, John F. Kennedy, a white floribunda called Iceberg if my memory serves (it was a real blooming machine with a nice lemon scent) and Joseph's Coat, a really great, colorful climber.

My mother grew roses wonderfully in Saskatchewan - north of you! - for years before moving to Vancouver where I came from. She always said mulch was the key to winter survival.
Elaine

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill

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