You must have some Lancifolia or Undulata in there. If there is a viable piece of crown material in the soil they will regenerate. If you till them without getting the crown material out it won't matter. You could sift the soil to get all the white crown material out. Or a few drops (notice I said drops not spray) of Round Up will kill em. Steve

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Trim molding can split where nails are placed with expansion or contraction (again - humidity levels and heat or cold), especially if the nails were not placed well or they were too large. Also, my home is about 25 yrs old. Hate to tell you but 20-25 years from standard builder windows is not out of the ordinary. They do neeed maintenance and there is the option to replace and upgrade. Some of my neighbors ave replaced some or all of their windows and others need to. We have been talking about it and hope to do ours this spring. I want double paned windows. The garage floor is the one thing that sounds most like a sois issue. I didn't catch where you are located. Are you in an areaig t known to have faults or earth ovement? Having extreme climate conditions over the last couple of years (aren't we all)? Your home is 20 yrs old -- it is going to require repairs. Prioritize the ones you know about and try to keep up with any maintenance so you can avoid as many ugly surprise as possible. And get an expert to come and inspect anything you aren't sure of, Most don't charge or are small eees -- and you'll sleep better at night if you know what to expect and can figure out how to deal with it.

HI Sara-Ann FWIW, every rose you list has not been hardy for me in zone 5 and I've tried them all. The only survivors have been Ch-Ching over one winter (looks dead this spring) and JFK in my warmest protected zone 6 spot for a couple of years. The others died over the winters even in my protected virtual zone 6, so that means they're only marginal in zone 6. The best thing you can do I think is give them some added protection over the winter in zone 6, so that they have a chance of some surviving cane to regrow from in the spring. As you mention, they survive so are likely to bloom eventually, but they spend so much energy regrowing all that cane they don't have much left for flowering when that's done. Some roses recover well from being pruned to the ground and are robust by June, but these roses just aren't that kind of robust in cold zones like ours. I haven't found that extra fertilizer helps with wimpy roses like this until they have some substantial growth to benefit from it, but some diluted fish fertilizer or other organics might help in the short run. Of course, virtually none of my roses get fertilized more than once so I'm only speaking hypothetically. Cynthia