Viewing post #819154 by Newyorkrita

Roses_R_Red said:I learned last year (after an unusually cold winter) that they could send up new shoots from the roots, Rita.. I had actually pulled a few out before I stopped and waited!! Last November we covered all the bushes with tons of straw. We'll see if this made a difference. I'm waiting for it to be warm enough to safely take the straw away from the roots. I do leave the straw to decay and add to the nutrients in the soil. I used Wilt Pruf the year before last and it didn't seem to help much.

My roses are mulched, or at least the entire rose bed is with straw. Can't go too much as I have so many spring bulbs in there.

Anyway, even my grafted roses are planted with the grafts below ground. The own root roses are fine, will be fine. But many of the grafted ones are the problem ones. Everything above ground on many is dead. So yes, it is possible for shoots to come from below ground. However, at least for me, this has rarely happened on grafted roses and when brown like this, turned out dead and needed replacement. But we shall see. I am not digging them up, I will just leave them and see what happens.