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
