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It must be wonderful to work @ home. Sigh!
Do you intend to plant many more roses? Heres a wonderful site by a guy who grows roses in Minnesota http://homepage.mac.com/passepartoot/home/rosepage.htm You can see we have a similar philosophy though he does winter protect a bit. I'm too lazy to do even that. Yes spring is wonderful. There is usually a contest to see which rose buds and flowers first. But it is also when my Cyclamen stop blooming so that is sad. The coldest I've recorded here is -15F. Though the record is -20 F. So I will only recommend the bullet proof ones that grow for me. Absolutely cold hardy. Lavender Lassie - pinkish Compassion - Salmon Guinevere - White Apple jack - Pink (Buck rose) Pearlie Mae - yellowish (buck rose) Winter sunset - yellow (buck rose) J.P.Connell - Yellow (Canadian tough rose) Alba meidiland - white Bulldozer tough ground cover New Dawn - pink (probably most popular rose in world) Candelabra - Orange disease prone but really cold tough for a hybrid tea. Alexander Mackenzie - Red Canadian. can't seem to get rebloom. Some cold death but comes back strong. Iceberg - Popular white. B. Pink Iceberg - Pink sport really pretty. Frontenac - Tough tough canadian red. excellent rebloom. Just some that pop into mind. -- Theo in Kansas City Z5/Z6? I would love some recommendations. I would say I am zone 3/4. I know we can get 30 below but not very often. You say that you do not provide any winter protection for your roses? I also will follow your suggestion and get some of the wood chips from the compost center at the same time I get a load of compost. Thanks for all the help. It is nice when a newbie can get some good answers and not feel dumb. I have always had to work out of the home so gardening became something I did not get into. Now I work at home and so I am more in tune with my yard and love to see the flowers start to come up in the spring. Roses have always beens something I have wanted to |
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