Protecting roses for the winteris usually a necessity, as these shrubs are not frost-resistant enough in our climate. Thanks to appropriately selected actions, it is possible to make our roses survive even a very cold winter. See how bestto protect roses for winter , when and how to docovering roses for winter , what is the best way to cover them, and whether it is advisable to pruning roses for winter
Securing roses for the winter. It is worth making mounds of soil or compost under all the roses. But such tight wrapping of agrotextile is a slight exaggeration
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Which roses require protection for the winter?
Protection for winterrequires most garden roses grown in our climate. The exception may be wild, historical, park and climbing roses that bloom once a season, which are more frost-resistant and cope without winter cover. But even in this group there are also less frost-resistant varieties.
In turn, among the less resistant large-flowered roses, one can find highly frost-resistant varieties such as: 'Alba Meidiland', 'Alchymist', 'Amber Cover', 'Blaze Superior' , 'Mister Lincoln', 'Montezuma' or 'Rosarium Uetersen'. When deciding onsecuring roses for the winter , we should therefore follow the information about frost resistance provided by the producer and approach each plant individually.
Ways to protect roses for winter
There are differentmethods for securing roses for winter . These are: mounds, mulching and covering with white agrotextile or conifer branches.
Hoarding roses for winter
Mounding is definitely the most importantway to protect roses for winter . Mandatory for large-flowered and bedding roses. Most often, the mounds are built between the end of October and the beginning of November. The mound for the rose should be about 20 cm high. It can be made of garden soil or compost. The mound's task is to cover the base of the rose, along with the site of budding, and to protect its root ball.
Note!It is not worth mounding roses with high peat due to its excessive water absorption (which may cause disease infections and rot of the shoots). Peat is also quite expensive.
Bedding roses for the winter
When the mound is built, we can additionallysecure the roses for the winterwith spruce twigs, straw or white nonwoven agrotextile. Suchrose covering for the winterwill protect the shrubs from the wind and stop the snow.Sprinkling with mulch (i.e. mulching) in the form of leaf compost or garden bark is especially recommended for low ground cover roses whose dense tangle of shoots makes it difficult to make mounds at the base of the shoot. Therefore, ground cover roses should be covered with a few centimeters of mulch.
Securing roses with agrotextile
"To protect roses for the winter, you can use white agrotextile, which has been widely available in garden centers or specialist stores since mid-September. The advantages of white agrotextile are protection against strong wind and frost, as well as limiting water loss by the rose. The agrotextile can be used to wrap rose crowns and whole shrubs. It works very well for winter covering of stem roses, i.e. popular rose trees.
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Securing climbing roses for winter
If we have climbing roses in the garden, remove them from the supports and (if possible) bend them flat to the ground. Then, form a mound at the base of the bush, cover the rest of the plant with straw, white fleece or conifer branches. Such protection of the rose for the winter will guarantee its survival against winter frosts.
Bending shoots of climbing roses to the ground
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If we do not have such a possibility, it is worth trying to wrap the entire support with the bush in agrotextile. Straw mats or jute are also used. Such protection of climbing roses for the winter is especially important in the case of varieties that repeat flowering, those that bloom once a season tolerate frost better.
Securing roses in pots for the winter
To protect a rose in a pot standing in the garden for the winter, bury the pot in the ground and cover it with a mound of soil or mulch so that the base of the bush is covered (the procedure is then the same as for a rose growing in the ground). If we do not have such a possibility, I suggest placing the pot with a rose in a larger container, and the space between the container and the pot should be covered with insulating and warming material, e.g. polystyrene or mineral wool. We take care of the above-ground parts of the plants in the same way as in the case of roses planted in the ground.
Pruning roses for winter
Pruning roses for the wintershould be avoided as it is not good for plants. The basic term for cutting roses is spring. The exceptions are roses that bloom once a year, such varieties are pruned in summer when flowering is complete. However, we never cut in late autumn, just before winter.
If necessary, in the case of roses before winter, we only carry out sanitary pruning, cutting out the diseased, broken or otherwise damaged shoots.You can also gentlytrim roses for the winter , too large sizes would make it difficult for us to cover them. But we only do this if there is no other way to protect a plant that is too large. Sometimes it is better to leave the shoots uncovered and trim them only in spring, when we find that they are indeed frozen.
Note!If you are pruning roses for the winter, remember to protect the cut site with an antifungal ointment with the addition of a fungicide, such as Funaben, which will prevent infection from penetrating the wounds after cutting.
Katarzyna Matuszak
