Roses
I love roses very much, but I haven’t grown them at the dacha yet. This year I planted two climbing roses and one hybrid tea. The bushes took root in the new place and began to grow slowly. Do they need any other care and how will they need to be covered for the winter?
I have a climbing rose growing. I don’t take care of it at all, only sometimes I trim off old shoots. I feed with complex fertilizer several times a season. For the winter, I bend the branches to the ground and cover them first with spruce branches, and on top with any old blankets. Well, in winter, if there is a possibility, I pour more snow on it.
Well, in general, I take care of them in much the same way: I prune them, fertilize them, and in the winter I dig them up, leave a little soil on the roots, put them on plastic and wrap them, then clamp them with a tourniquet and store them in the basement until spring. BUT you can’t train like that, but I don’t have very many of them.
Why are you digging them up? To be honest, this is the first time I’ve heard of this method. I have several roses growing and I cover them with lutrastil. It seems that not a single rose has frozen over the entire winter. And the climbing one I have is actually gigantic, as tall as I am, you can’t dig one like that.
I agree with you Margot that this is a rather strange way of caring for roses. Maybe it really is used for very frosty regions, but personally I have never heard of this. Although I am not an expert in rose growing, so I may well be wrong in my opinion.
I don’t know where the senselle girl comes from, but our Siberian roses may die. I heard about this method from many neighbors. Those who have cellars take their beauties there, but as far as I know they sell roses. Of course, I just cover them and bend them to the ground.
No one digs up roses for the winter; they won’t last that long. Yes, you can cut them off and drip them in if there are such severe frosts, but don’t drip them in. And climbers are practically not pruned at all, and in the spring there will be no appearance. Strange, strange.
What strange things do you find in the excavation? When the frost is below -45 for several months, and at the same time the wind is up to 15 meters, no rose can withstand it even in good shelter. The Far East is a place with a harsh climate, so we almost always dig.
Cultivated roses are always grafted with rose hips and therefore the flowers have quite high frost resistance. Therefore, there is no need to dig up bushes for the winter, but you can cover them with some kind of protective material.
My friend also loves roses very much and babysits them all the time. Even in winter, before frost, he goes to the dacha to cover them with something else or throw snow on them. He never digs up rose bushes, although we live in the North-West - far from the south ;-)
Roses are grown throughout Russia. And they don’t overwinter in the ground everywhere. I also dig it up and fill half of the cellar with rose bushes in buckets of soil. Because in winter it can be down to -45 with wind, it’s a pity to lose excellent varieties.
We have several varieties of roses, but we never dig up a single one for the winter. In August we dig up the area and fertilize the roses, and at the end of October we cut it and sprinkle it with cedar and pine sawdust. They winter well. Just don’t insulate roses with grass or leaves. There may be mice and digging should be done in August so that the soil settles before frost.
But we don’t dig up roses. We simply insulate the bush by wrapping it in non-woven synthetic thread material. If something is frozen, we trim it with pruning shears in the spring. Although if there is severe frost, digging is possible.
Covering is a must. And fertilizers
Care and wintering of roses directly depends on the region in which you live. If the winters are harsh, then of course it is important to insulate the bushes well or really dig them up, I don’t see anything difficult about it. We cover it with sawdust and wrap it in cloth and cellophane. This is quite enough.
Roll ordinary roses either with special material or wrap them in burlap. It's enough. The climbing ones will have to be unhooked from the fence along which they “crawl”, then rolled into a cove, placed on the ground and covered, for example, with a sheet of slate or a piece of roofing felt/roofing felt.
I suffered so much with my climbing rose, with its thorns, that I gave up on its beauty and sold it to a neighbor who had had her eye on this rose for a long time. Now in the fall she squeaks, covering.
What special material is used to wrap roses? We wrap ourselves in regular film, but our frosts here are really not as severe as those of other people living further north than us here in our region.
In our region, roses are not covered for the winter at all, they do not freeze, and you can feed the flowers with chicken droppings diluted with water. In addition, the soil between the bushes should be loosened.
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Wrapping a rose is certainly not a pleasant task, but if you want beauty, you will have to be patient when you wrap it. At one time I refused roses altogether just because of this.
In winter we have frosts down to -30 degrees, and if a cultivated rose is not grafted onto a rosehip, then it, even wrapped up, will still not survive the winter and will freeze. In a rose, the thorns, on the contrary, give this flower its uniqueness.
What is the best way to prune a rose, especially in winter, any ideas?
In winter, no one prunes the rose, but during the summer it blooms three times. It is during this period that it is advisable to cut the flowers. For the winter, the rose bush can be wrapped in burlap, or a paper bag can be placed on top.