Best Deer Resistant zone 4 Roses?
lavender_lass
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Please, best roses for zone, 2, 3, 4, thanks.
Comments (11)My list of recommendations from my zone 4 experience for ease of growing, hardiness and no fuss: Alba Maxima Alba Semi-plena Alika Applejack (the only truly *cane hardy* Buck rose IME) Belle de Crecy Belle Poitevine Champagne Arches, AKA Nancy Parker Fantin Latour Felix Leclerc Fru Dagmar Hastrup Great Maiden's Blush Hebe's Lip Henri Martin Henry Kelsey John Cabot John Davis Leda Marie Victorin Mme. Hardy Mme Legras de St.Germain Morden Blush Rosa glauca Rosa villosa pomifera Rose de Rescht Stanwell Perpetual Sydonie Therese Bugnet William Baffin various Spinnossimas, "Scot's Rose", gallicas, albas, rugosas (careful on the hybrid rugosas - some can be very tender.) There are many, many other roses that I do succeed in growing here, but if your newbie growers are looking for less disease problems, less pruning work, and less winter protection routine then I would pare my list down to these. BTW, on your list of possibles, I also grow Morden Sunrise, Alexander Mackenzie, Marie Bugnet and Martin Frobisher and an awful lot of the Buck roses. They don't make the hardiness cut although they're all lovely. I have a lot of die back on each and every one of them each year. I guess as I get older, I'm getting tired of hard pruning and waiting for the "bounce back" - or not. Right now I'm looking at a lot of beds with very little rose left above ground in them, cut back as recently as they were and just starting to re-grow. Not much of a garden at the moment! The season is so short here that a rose which can start out full size is a definite advantage I'm beginning to think. I'm currently eying my collection more critically with a goal of less fuss, more reward in future. (Sorry if I sound pessimistic, but given my current state of mind, your post struck a chord.) Hope some of this somehow helps, Anne...See MorePhytophthora resistant roses for zone 4?
Comments (1)P is an interesting disease. I read a long thing on Google from Oregon State about it. Enough to prove that you are unlikely to get any helpful responses. Proving a plant is infected by P is a lengthy process. And the cure is complex involving water management, chemicals, etc. And proof is complicated by the fact that other things can cause the same symptoms. Roses however are not among the more susceptible plants so there is hope there. I have no ideas what roses I have might be resistant. But Rugosa Alba is an extremely tough rose growing under a variety of adverse condions. I would think that most wild roses would be the same....See MoreBest time to move a rose in zone 4 or 5?
Comments (10)Yes, move them now. I always move my roses as soon as the ground can be broken. I move as much dirt as possible with them. That way, they don't even know they have been moved and take right off again. I moved 2 A Shropshire Lad in mid March. They were right up against the house. I moved them to a different spot up next to the house. They are now putting out new canes like they had never been disturbed. Rebecca...See MoreCurb Appeal in Deer and Rabbit Zone:) in zone 4A
Comments (3)You'll have more curb appeal if you remove several of the shrubs that are smothering the look of the house--whatever is under the windows on the left, the ball to the right of the steps and the large shrub with the light green leaves on the right. I'd also remove the large shrub farther down the driveway. Replace them with perennials and leave the low to the ground shrubs. There are an enormous number of highly deer/rabbit resistant perennials and that would work. A short list--yarrows (Achillea), Salvias, Irises of all types, Coreopsis, Gaillardias, all ornamental grasses. That should get you started....See Morelavender_lass
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