I'd love to talk about roses, exchange ideas or give a heads up to best rose sources on line.
Is there anyone out there still interested in this forum?

Dove

I would love to talk about roses and exchange ideas. I have 55 different roses but it is pretty much time for them to go to bed for the Winter. I live in Canada South Mountain Ontario. Winter get's cold here and I need to cover them for the Winter. They are my babies and that is where I am all Summer. I try to talk to someone on here before but had no luck. It is nice to see someone out there that has as much Passionate for roses as I do.
Connie Barber

Hi Connie,
I live in Southern California and don't face the winter challenges that you do. You must really love your roses to go through the amount of winterizing your climate requires.

Do you trench your roses? What do you to to protect them?

Dove

Hi Dove,
Yes I love my roses all Summer I am with them and in the Winter I Crochet. I just found out I am going to a frist time Grandma so I will be busy this Winter. What I do with my rose for the Winter, Well I stop cutting them back in the middle of Aug so they now to get ready, then I wait for the frist frost to kill the leaves so they will fall all off then I spray them with a dormant spray. After all that I make sure the bud union is going to be ok for the Winter if not I take drit from the Garden and build up around the Bud union, then I lay straw all around them after all that my shrub rose get a rose hut and the Climbers get burlap wrapped around them with some starw inside not to much because the mice like to nest in it. As for the Rose trees I just but them in are back shed for the Winter and take them out in the early Spring. Yes I love my Roses all 55 of them.
Connie

Connie,
I can't imagine living in that kind of cold, much less growing roses in it. 55 roses, wow, that's a lot of work getting them all winter ready. I admire your dedication.

Congratulations on your soon to be grandchild!

I grow about 120 roses, 98 different varieties.
I am working on finding roses with the same name as my grandchildren (and children) That's not so easy a job and sometimes I settle for a rose that reminds me in some way of them.
So far I'm found:
Laura (my daughter Laura)
John-John (my oldest son Jon and youngest grandson Jon)
Illusion (my granddaughter Ilusion)
Lovely Child (for the one on the way)
Carefree Sunshine (my granddaughter Ivy Sunshine)
There isn't a rose named Jesse (My youngest son)
So I planted a Tall bearded Iris called Jesse's Song.

Cheers
Dove

Hi Dove
Sorry it I didn't get back to you sooner then this. Today was just a nice Fall day almost think that Summer was back but I do know what is come down the road. I would love to be where you are and ba able to enjoy my Rose's all year long. I think it is neat how you try to fing Rose with the same name's as your Family, I only have one named after a family member which is John Davies a climber and my husbands name is John, my daughter name is Leticia Ticia for short don't think I would have and luck with her name. I have to ask do you keep growing your Roses all year long and do they keep on going or is there a time that they do go to sleep for a bit, like climber's they bloom just lovely in the Spring here and are just loaded with flower's and then the rest of the Summer they do bloom but not like at the frist bloom. I worked out in the Roses today cleaned up the leaves and the weeds they never stop. My Roses still want to keep on blooming even with me not dead head them. They won't give up to easy but that is just fine by me. Well hope to here back soon I won't take as long to answer you back next time sorry.

Connie

Hi Connie,
I started a new thread about roses and winter, I know you already answered here, but I hoping you would post in the new thread too.
That way it has a more appropriate topic heading and others with the same questions could find it more easily.

Cheers
Dove

Sorry to be a johnny-come-lately but I love roses, too, and have a bunch of them. Unfortunately, I'm relocating to another area and have to leave them all. I won't miss any people here but will miss Belle de Crecy, Cardinal de Richelieu, Black Bacarra, French Lace, etc. I have about 55 as well so it's a serious loss. I just hope I can find a place suitable to start the rose garden again. I started a new list of what I want which will take care of several paychecks.

Does ayone here have any experience with any of the Buck roses? I'm moving to Grand Rapids and, since I'll have to start anew, I wanted to add some of them to the garden.

Hi Lady,
I know how you feel about leaving your rose garden behind. My husband is in the Navy and I've left 3 behind so far and it's quite possible I will be leaving my biggest and bestest next summer.

Buck roses are very hardy. Most do well in cold climates without winter protection. His roses are either recurrent or continuous bloomers and most a strong fragrance.

Here is a list of all the roses he bread
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?i=H61&tab=2

Cheers
Dove

Thanks. I hope to be in a house before spring so I can start another rose garden. I have a list of about 65 or so that I really would like to have. My step-father was career Navy so I understand the moving around that's involved. I work in aerospace which is almost as bad.