How to winter care roses? Hardy Zone 6b
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Comments (20)I am starting to think that hybrid teas, even the older ones, are not as much work to keep clean as the dense shrubby OSO EZEs and the Knock outs. wIth the HTs you just look to the hygiene, air transfer and spray them with old fashioned Sulpher Lime and dormant oil in the winter. With the twiggy new shrubs you can accumulate all kinds of fungus and stuff but they keep blooming and over grow the yellow leaves. They have to be opened up and cleaned up or they infect everything around them. I really believe this. You really cant strip their leaves off; its suicide. Here in coastal NJ we are in black spot hell, fungusamongus every spring. The nights are cold and wet. The days can get warm with big drops in temperature. Humidity all year. I have rugosas but keep them far away from other roses because they are great mildew traps. I like all of them. Some that I think are excellent for us in cold 6B are Autumn Sunset, Queen Elizabeth, New Dawn, Sea Foam, Cecile Brunner, Heritage (prone a little to bs) popcorn drift, and the newer Kordes. I have found great Maidens Blush gets some, but its worth it, so does Sidonie, but I love it. Sun, spacing, food and hygiene (pick up the leaves) are the keys....See MoreAnyone`s expirience whis Don Juan Cl. rose zone 6B
Comments (3)This is a known winter tender rose--it sounds like you either need a warmer spot, better winter protection, or another rose. Ideally, you want southern exposure, shielding from wind, and plenty of light--like I have between a wheelchair ramp and a bay window. You could also put tender roses next to a furnace chimney or asphalt driveway. I grow St Patrick near the driveway--it usually doesn't survive winters around here, but I've had it for years....See MoreAnyone here know of COLD hardy cactus for Zone 6b ? Should I believe?
Comments (21)I've been wanting to try some more cold hardy cacti outside all year, too. I've had the same doubts about the claimed cold hardiness I've seen on the Internet. Some of the cold hardiness ratings I see listed by some nurseries seem a bit exaggerated to me. However, I'd rather not point fingers at any specific nurseries because I have no hard evidence to the contrary. Plus cold hardiness is not the only thing needed for a cactus to survive the winter. As I mentioned, they do better in the extreme cold if they are dry. Perhaps those cold hardiness ratings I have doubts about are possible if the plant is completely dry. I'm in the Snake River Valley, Idaho. I'm not sure how the precipitation here compares to that of New England. I don't cover my cactus bed. It does get wet and frozen during the winter. So far I've had good luck with certain kinds of Pediocactus simpsonii and Escobaria missouriensis. I have a couple small Escobaria sneedii or leei (the label says leei but the growth habit suggests sneedii) that over wintered OK last winter, too. Also, there are some wild kinds of Opuntia that grow in the valley and mountains....See MoreVoodoo rose in Zone 6b
Comments (1)There are several variables you have to account for, not least of which I found three different "hardiness zones" listed for Voodoo. It depends on who you believe. Heirloom says Z5 (hah! I bet not), Witherspoon also says Z5 (Hah! again), Rogue Valley says Z7, HMF says Z7b. One comment (from Windy C) on HMF says it overwinters in Z6, but Windy implied that she winterizes/protects. That's the next thing to consider. To what lengths do you want to go to help Voodoo survive? The least you'll probably need to do is bury the graft several inches deep so that the graft survives even if the canes are 100% killed. If you buy it own-root, I'd still bury the crown slightly below ground level, since you don't REALLY know how much cane might/will/hopefully/prayerfully survive, lol. Then you need to consider possible snow cover. Snow is good. Naked is bad. Also, once you have freezing temps, do you have them consistently, or are there wild swings (like here! lol)? How you can protect depends a lot on how cold, and how wet your winters are. You don't want anything keeping the canes cold AND wet. That equals rot and canker. The best possible situation is winter-long snow cover. The next best thing is dry cold, with an airy mulch as deep as you can get it. I've used cages made of concrete reinforcing wire filled with pine needles. The next Spring the needles make great mulch for the beds. Oak leaves work well, too. DON'T use maple leaves. They mat down into a wet, mushy mess. But really, the FIRST thing you need to do is find someone local, or at least someone who has basically the same winter conditions as you, who can give you their first hand experience with Voodoo (the rose, not the witchcraft, lol). There is NOTHING like advice from a local grower. "Location, location, location" is even more important for rose growing than it is for real estate. And lastly, I'd say go for it. If you love a rose, you should try it. Just go in with open eyes and a realistic view. Besides...there are 10,000 more to try if Voodoo doesn't work ;) John...See MoreMoses, Western PA., zone 5/6, USA
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