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winterizing roses
Last year, my first of being brave enough to plant roses, I didn't do
anything special to get my roses ready for the winter except stop deadheading. At hte time I had a Duchesse de Brabrant, Old Blush and Knock. This year I've added two Buck roses, a Dart's Dash and what I think of as the yellow Knockout(Carefree Sunshine?). Do I need to anything special to get these roses ready for winter? Should I cut them back or just heavily mulch them. I'm in zone 7, central VA. Thanks. Beth |
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wrote in message oups.com... Last year, my first of being brave enough to plant roses, I didn't do anything special to get my roses ready for the winter except stop deadheading. At hte time I had a Duchesse de Brabrant, Old Blush and Knock. This year I've added two Buck roses, a Dart's Dash and what I think of as the yellow Knockout(Carefree Sunshine?). Do I need to anything special to get these roses ready for winter? Should I cut them back or just heavily mulch them. I'm in zone 7, central VA. Thanks. Beth The American Rose Society www.ars.org has some articles on winterizing (and other topics). Click on articles in the paragraph beginning "There are many articles..." Most of the articles refer to regions colder than yours. One article is written by someone who lives in Zone 6 and who only winterizes the most tender plants. You might not have to do much if anything depending on how cold it actually gets where you are and how well the roses are protected (close to the house, protected from wind by other plants, etc.). The Buck roses tend to be cold tolerant anyway, and I think most of the others are also hardier than a lot of modern roses. Gail |
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Gail wrote:
The American Rose Society www.ars.org has some articles on winterizing (and other topics). Click on articles in the paragraph beginning "There are many articles..." Most of the articles refer to regions colder than yours. One article is written by someone who lives in Zone 6 and who only winterizes the most tender plants. You might not have to do much if anything depending on how cold it actually gets where you are and how well the roses are protected (close to the house, protected from wind by other plants, etc.). The Buck roses tend to be cold tolerant anyway, and I think most of the others are also hardier than a lot of modern roses. Gail, Thanks for reminding me of the ARS link. I actually have it bookmarked, just didn't think to look there. Apparently my benign neglect method is perfect for my area. I do know enough to stop deadheading and fertilizing. The roses that are blooming right now are drop dead beautiful. I'm really impressed with my two Buck roses. If they handle the winter like they should I may plant nothing but Bucks in the future. Beth Zone 7 |
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ups.com... Thanks for reminding me of the ARS link. I actually have it bookmarked, just didn't think to look there. Apparently my benign neglect method is perfect for my area. I do know enough to stop deadheading and fertilizing. The roses that are blooming right now are drop dead beautiful. I'm really impressed with my two Buck roses. If they handle the winter like they should I may plant nothing but Bucks in the future. Beth Zone 7 I love it when benign neglect works! You can see the kind of gardener I am. My first Buck rose was "Distant Drums". I have really enjoyed it and got two more (now have 3). They do well which is weird because it's hot as you-know-what around here, especially this summer. Apparently they aren't only adapted to the cold. Gail near San Antonio TX Zone 8 |
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My first Buck rose was "Distant Drums". I have
really enjoyed it and got two more (now have 3). They do well which is weird because it's hot as you-know-what around here, especially this summer. Apparently they aren't only adapted to the cold. The man were I bought several of my roses this year takes a rose garden road trip most summers. He said he had a chance to see the Buck gardens in Iowa(?) and it was hotter than Hades and they looked great. My two have done very well with several weeks in a row with temps in the nineties. And the nasty Central VA humidity. Beth |
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oups.com... The man were I bought several of my roses this year takes a rose garden road trip most summers. He said he had a chance to see the Buck gardens in Iowa(?) and it was hotter than Hades and they looked great. My two have done very well with several weeks in a row with temps in the nineties. And the nasty Central VA humidity. Beth I first read about the Buck roses in _Peter Schneider On Roses_, 1995. To quote one paragraph from his section on Buck roses: "Buck's first mission at Iowa State University, where he was a professor of horticulture, was to study and improve rose understocks, the 'wild' roses onto which garden roses are bud-grafted. Later, he set out to breed shrub roses that would be healthy in summer and hardy enough to survive a winter on the Iowa prairie." Somehow when I first read that I ignored the part about "healthy in summer". I guess he succeeded! Your summers can be worse than mine. (I'm originally from Maryland.) We both got lucky with Buck roses. They can be hard to find, but worth the search. Gail |
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