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Old 18-05-2003, 02:08 PM
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Kim,
How's this, someone from Florida, zone 9, giving advice to someone in zone 1?
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My suggestion would be to put the roses in the containers, then place the
containers in the raised bed. That way when you remove them in the fall you
would keep most of the roots intact and they should come back more easily next
spring. You could even build another raised bed frame (without soil), place
your pots inside and surround them with mulch.
Hey, I know when you have more roses than space, you can get very creative!

chelatna writes:

I live in Fairbanks Alaska (zone 1, but up to 80s and 90s in the summer)
and I just got my four J&P bareroot plants this week. Yippee!! In the
past I've kept my roses in big pots and wintered them in my garage,
which works OK. However, I'm starting to run out of room on my patio for
all these pots (Ok, I'll admit to impulse buying the four roses without
really thinking it through, but hey, is that really SO bad?) My question
is: I have several large raised beds that I use for annuals mostly and
I'm thinking of putting the roses in them. I'd have to dig them up in
the fall, though. *Before* I plant them, does anyone have any
suggestions? How would roses cope with being dug up and replanted every
fall and spring? Would it be better just to pot them and squeeze a
little tighter on the patio? If planting them in the beds is OK, is
there anything I should do at the beginning to make it easier to dig in
the fall?