Kat asks: Climbing roses?
We’ve bought couple of climbing roses and now that fall/winter is slowly coming. What do we need to do with the climbing roses? Do we trim them back and cover them? Any ideas would be great. Be honest please 🙂
p.s. I live in Montana (if that helps)
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Answer by snowman
Do not cut them back until spring.Add a heavy layer of mulch to help protect the root graft.Tie any loose canes to a support so the high winds of winter will not snap them off.
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Cold winters? Prune them back when they grow dormant. Sometimes it helps the rose to dig a trench and lay it down in the trench. Keeps them from freezing totally and dying. IN the spring you can remove it from the trench and it will come back lovely. I used to do this when I lived in Upstate NY when we had or were predicted to have hard winters.
as long as they are climbing the trellis, they should be fine. most climbing roses are hardy. In fact, once they get started it is almost impossible to get rid of them.
roses should be covered before the winter with some kind of mulch…straw works, as well as your typical mulch. Mound the mulch around the plant ensuring the base is covered. Cutting them back in the fall is not always necessary as you will have to cut them back in the spring to get rid of the winterkill (the black on the canes)
Montana! Yikes!
Thanks.
First, please don’t be discouraged if you don’t have great success with you roses. It’s really, really hard to grow typical garden roses in the brutal winters of Montana. Montana is USDA Hardiness zones 2-4 (I thought I had it bad in zone 5).
I would heap, yes heap wood mulch over the graft once the plant looses most of it’s leaves. Like six inches. I would secure the canes to the trellis (with twine, no wire!), and then spray the canes with an anti desiccant spray such as “wilt pruf”, finally secure some burlap over the trellis, securing it to the trellis, not the rose.
You’ll probably always have to do this sort of ritual every fall.
Pray alot for mild weather.
There is another method called the “Minnesota Tip”, where you dig a trench, and lift your rose, lay it in the trench and cover it over with soil and mulch… you MAY have to do this… if your weather is worse than Minnesota.
Finally: There is a category of roses that have been hybridized for Canada, called “Canadian Explorer” series (sometimes just “Explorer”), search that list for super hardy roses for your area, or even some native species.
I hope that this helps
Good luck-
absolutly never prune climber except in the spring to remove dead or sick branches, if you prune them you will stunt them and many don’t produce roses on new wood, thos some do, you wont get flowers if you prune, what kind of climbers are they?
here are some that are hardy in your area and will need minimal protection. exployers series their climbers check the net, also new dawn is pretty hardy in your area, when I say hardy in this case I mean cane hardy not just root hardy, but you can wrap them in burlap and tie them to a sturdy trellis or post to keep them from whipping around, or bury the canes in a trench by bending them gently and pegging them down. new dawn blooms on both old and new wood so if you lose the canes it will grow back and still flower, you just wont have the long canes (10-20 foot) of this plant.
if you have common climbers like don juan, or josephs’ coat or golden showers, white dawn, improved blaze, these are out of the zone past 5. but even in zone five require burlapping and mulching. american is another climber. if you dont’ know the type please burlap the canes at least two or more layers and tie them gently no tape please, and mulch heavily around the base. if you dont’ want to bury them.
as a precaution when you burlap them and tie them gently and they tie them to the trellis or a strudy object to prevent whipping around or collasping from snow, blanket them with another layer of burlap over the whole top like your putting a blanket on your kid who is sleeping.
montana is cold and this will give you added insurance without having to bury them.if you want to bury them you will have to partially uproot half the base to get it to lay down, I personally dont’ like distrubing the roots at all but to help the plant survive when out of it’s zone this may be required.
are they in a southern exposure or norther or east or west that determines how shelterd from those north winds are. that is even better if the north wind can’t blow on them because the house, or trees or bushes are blocking it. even a piece of wood such a plywood stake to keep those north winds off would help but leave it open to the south exposure to allow for the sun to hit it and warm southern air to hit it. but not knowing the variety you have it is impossible to know how much to protect it.
did you buy it like at a home depot or walmart? it is probably not a very cold hardy variety in your area, they mostly deal with most common ones, but there are few hardy ones. of course you can find those hardy in your areas but I find here that they sell roses they know are not hardy in our area they just are out to make a buck.
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