So sorry to hear Tammy. I assume your loss is weather related. I lost 9 bushes to pesky voles.

Jeff

For sure Lucille Ball and maybe Iced Ginger. I don't know what happened with Iced Ginger, it looked fine going into winter. LB was full of cane borer holes when I went to plant it last September. I had to cut it way back and then the cold weather came.

However I know what I'm going to put in its place already so it will be fine. Sorry to hear about your losses.

Kate

Sorry to hear about your dear departed--that's a lot to lose all at once. I was pretty lucky, the only rose I have that might end up being a loss is Tamora, though she was one of my favorites. Got her last year from a local nursery, grafted, planted on the north side but covered with oak leaves most of the winter--so far she's my only rose that isn't starting to bud out, and she's brown and crispy all over, although she does have some green left to her canes at the bases. I haven't pruned her totally down to the green yet, I can't bear to leave her with practically nothing, but I'm going to have to when it warms up. If she doesn't bounce back significantly, I'm going to replace her either with a hardier own-root specimen, or just a hardier apricot altogether (I'm thinking either Buck's Prairie Sunrise, Winter Sunset or Pearlie May).

Talk about a backyard CSI- I had a real carnage in my backyard & (worst of all- ) garage. Includes 2 BR Cants, 3 Crimson Glory bushes and one Eugene de Beauharnais. A bunch more lost all the top growth. A few were plants that had been in pots for years and did not make it after I planted them in the ground last year. And my garage overwintered plants (5 of 8 total) developed the creeping black death- black at the tips first followed by creeping towards the center until the whole plant became black. Pruning the black part did not help.I did something wrong there. My Bucks (earthsong & quietness) & Bayse's blueberry were the only ones that did not lose any canes. Not sure how I will respond, but I am rethinking things for sure.

My biggest loss was an established, own-root Alister Stella Grey. I did see a bit of hope at the bottom, so I have cut him back to the ground. He suffered root loss from chipmunks the first two years, before the cats cleaned them out, so maybe cutting him back to what the roots can support will be the best thing anyway. I lost a fair bit on my established chinas and teas, but these should recover. The only complete losses were china and tea bands that I put in last fall and a couple of end-of-season stressed grafted hybrid teas that I picked up locally. Live and burn.

Check for green inner bark as you prune down. It means the canes are alive. If plants die in zone 7, check for vole damage of the roots.

I have several that haven't sprouted yet. Some are alive.

Tammy, I am sorry to hear of your losses, especially Crepuscule. Do you have voles there? I never plant a rose now without perma till. I lost two to voles and vow to never again allow them to dine on my roses if I can help it.

Carla

What is permatill? will it work on bigger critters, moles and ground hog type thingies? These animals fight with my dogs and still come back and destroy my roses but I cannot kill them becuase my ADULT children will be upset.
TYIA

Tammy, that is not good! I'll see what I can do to get you some of those that might be harder to get. Not sure yet what I may have lost since still cold here. We actually got snow yesterday although it now has melted.

Lucille Ball does not look well at all, but still too early to pronounce.