Here's How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

Rose bushes are fragile plants.

Depending on where you live, winter can be really harsh for them.

Garden centers sell a lot of very expensive protection.

But don't bother to ruin yourself! Nothing beats natural.

There are easy tips for protecting your roses from the cold without spending money unnecessarily.

Here are the 3 best tips to protect any type of rose bush for the whole winter . Watch:

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

Contents

1. For shrub roses
2. For shrub roses
3. For climbing roses
4. For potted roses
Result

Before any installation of natural protections against the cold, remember to cut the dry flowers and to prune the stems which would be too high.

Stop fertilizing about 2 months before the first frosts so as not to stimulate growth in cold weather.

1. For shrub roses

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

Just before the first frost of the season, scatter wood chips, shredded bark or chopped leaves around the base of the plant.

If you live in an area with relatively mild winters, just mulch at the base of the plant, about 10 cm.

This insulates the ground to maintain an even temperature despite alternating freezing and thawing.

This thick mulch is especially important when there is no snow cover to protect the plants.

If winter temperatures regularly drop below freezing, mulch.

Also consider adding some after each gel to increase the mound.

In the end, the mulch should cover almost the entire bush.

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

Hybrid or freshly transplanted roses are the most vulnerable to frost.

You can make them a solid protection with cardboard or plastic bottles that you fill with mulch.

2. For shrub roses

What you need:
- stakes
- burlap
- string
- organic mulch

STEP 1

Shrub roses are vulnerable to cold, so they need to be helped to cope with winter.

Start by placing 4 stakes in the ground around the trunk of the rosebush without going too far from the roots.

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

STEP 2

Wrap a strip of burlap around the stakes and tie it with twine. This will serve as a protective barrier.

Then, fill the middle with an insulating layer of shredded dry leaves. The rosebush is now protected from strong winds.

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

3. For climbing roses

Climbing roses are particularly vulnerable to cold winds in winter.

They need special attention in regions with regular frost.

Wrap the stems with burlap or untie them from their trellis to lay them horizontally on the ground.

Cover them with a mulch of leaves, wood chips or soil.

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

4. For pot roses

Here s How To Properly Protect Your Roses All Winter Long.

If your roses are in a pot, just wrap some canvas around the pot or some bubble wrap to insulate it. Protect the foot with mulch. If possible, also insulate the bottom of the pot with a polystyrene plate, especially if you live in regions where the frost is persistent.

Result

And There you go ! Your roses are now naturally protected from the cold :-)

They are ready to take on the onslaught of winter!

Feel free to put extra layers of mulch after each big frost.

If it snows, leave the snow cover in place, it will act as a natural insulator.

Know that there are also flowers that do not fear frost.

Very practical for having a flower garden even in winter.