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Winterize your Roses
Just like people, your beautiful roses need a little bundling up for winter.They also deserve some extra attention before the coming cold weather to ensure the best possible blooms for next spring. A little mounding and
mulching around plants can help minimize wind and cold damage as well prevent expanding soil from pushing plants out of the ground.
Depending upon the onset of cool weather in different regions around the country, your roses should be prepped for winter sometime in late
October through November.
All-America Rose Selections has developed some key guidelines for winterizing roses and maintaining optimal growing conditions.
For indoor plants, store roses in an unheated indoor area.
Keep pots in an open box or container and insulate with straw,
shredded newspaper or Styrofoam packing material. The plants should still be watered regularly.
For outdoors, bury the bush in a hole up to the top of the pot. Mound the
crowns of the potted roses using the same method as for planted bushes.
- Stop fertilizing six weeks before the first frost.
- Allow seed pods to develop instead of clipping spent flowers.
- Continue watering during dry autumn weather to help keep plants fortified
during the dry winter. - Prune dead or diseased canes.
- Cover the plants just above the swollen point where the stem joins the rootstock.
- Mound, mulch or compost after a few frosts but before the ground freezes.
Where temperatures stay below freezing during winter, enclose the plant with
a sturdy mesh, filling the enclosure with chopped leaves, compost,
mulch, dry wood chips or pine needles. - After the ground freezes, prevent wind from whipping plants by
removing any remaining leaves and cutting back long canes to about 18 inches. - Avoid transplanting rose bushes to a new location until spring.
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