I live in Hermitage,Tn and how do i protect my minature and wild blue yonder rose bushes in winter?

Answer 1

when the Weatherman states that a frost is going to occure, protect them if needed with covering.

How many years have you had the care of roses? How old are these rose bushes? Answering some of these questions would help with the answers.

I have had rose bushes for over 15 years. We just moved to a new home in TX about a year ago. this caused me to plant new bushes. However, I was over zellous, and bought several at the end of last summer, and neglected to plant them before the winter. They weren't "healthy" when I bought them, and I knew it, but I hate to see anything get thrown away. Plus, sometimes I think I like the challenge of saving something that I know is half dead.

In short, they made it through the winter, dispite the fact that we did have many freezes, plus snow and ice. At the start of this summer, I finally got them planted, and really needed to check the parts below the pot tops, as they really looked over done.....dead! One out of six, was in fact dead! I planted the remaining five, which didn't look much better. The stock was not more than six to ten inches tall, without leaves starting, and needing to cut away more cane as it was split. I sealed the ends with white house paint with several TBSP of listerine mouth wash mixed into the paint. Felling bad over the lack of care after I bought them, and knowing I hadn't ammended the soil (we have solid clay soil), I added rose food and bonemeal into the holes dug.

Knowing a "few tricks", I also did these feeling that now after my attempt (digging into clay is murder), I wanted them to survive. They are now over five feet tall, very healthy, and using my tricks, they have given us a load of healthy blooms. they are still blooming now, and don't show any signs of stopping this year yet.

Most times my roses haven't needed any thing special to weather over the winters if they are healthy before the winter starts. In our last home which had an owner before we moved there, the roses were terrible when we moved in. My husband accused me of chopping them down to nothing, but it was mid summer with ulgy deformed and few roses. Thoses grew to over 12 feet by the end of the summer, and then the neighbors said that I didn't grow roses bushes, but trees!

You could prepare for a wicked winter before it gets here, just in case you do get one. Buy PVC pipe from the garden center, cut them (4 legs so to speak) to be about 6 inches above the height of the bushes plus one foot extra. Then put them into the ground (planting one foot deep) verticle (up and down) out from the base forming a square that when done, will not touch the bushes. then when you hear a freeze is expected, wrap with material (cheap) purchased on sale from a material store. This is better than when people wrap cloth around shrubs and bushes because this does not allow air flow, which is why these coverings must be removed the next day. However, by placing these pipes in this way, during the summer drought, watering into these pipes is a better way to save water as it puts water at the base of the plants instead of on the top of the ground.

If you want to send an email to me for some examples of the tricks I use to grow better plants, feel free. I have been helping numerous people with these helpful, less known, and cheaper mess free ways to garden.

Happy gardening!

Answer 2

you can try and wrap them in burlap or an old blanket and keeped them watered well when you can