LOVE YOUR video !! So enjoyable with amazing colors on your roses, and the little animals are so adorable. Still kicking myself for taking Elle out my Rose Unlimited order and put in once-bloomer old garden rose since I was concerned about Elle's winter-hardiness in my zone 5. What are some OWN-ROOT roses which are winter hardy for you? What are some GRAFTED roses which are winter hardy for you? Thanks for any info.

Oh, forgot to answer your questions about which ones are winter hardy...all the Kordes ones.

Cinderella, Pomponella, Golden Fairytale, etc.

Those ones don't seem to skip a beat.

Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA I admire your dog in all of your old pics (posted years ago), and also your Perfume de Paris .. I bought that from LongAgoRoses as own-root and love its honeysuckle scent. It got down to 16 degree this past few nights 11/30/23.

Roses against the house still have green leaves, but roses in the open air has withering leaves from the cold.

Moses gave a the great tip of folding down old yard waste bag into "collars" to put around roses. That work better that buckets (bottom cut off). After putting "collars" around my roses, I pile up leaves inside. We have DRY and EXTREMELY cold winter at -20 F below zero windchill factor last winter 2022, I lost a bunch of roses, including the gallon-size own-roots INSIDE my unheated garage & covered with a thermal blanket.

This fall I ordered own-root Austin roses from Garden Roses LLC in PA: The Generous Gardener (hardy to zone 4), The Prince (survived several winter for Kelly in zone 4), Thomas A Becket (it's a large bush, so it should be hardy), Betty White (survived six of my zone 5 winter), Bathsheba and Jubilee Celebration (has a wimpy reputation as own-root).

What are the 5 roses that you lost without winter protection? I lost too many roses in my zone 5 winter that I need to avoid the "tender" ones that die to the crown. Thank you.

I lost a Sally Holmes, Nahema, Julie Andrews, Mitsouko (not surprised with that one), and I'm drawing a blank on the last one. Thought I lost memoire and dug her up. Saw a touch of green so I put her back in the ground to see if she'd survive and she did!

The Julie Andrews rose was from a nursery up in Barrie which is COLD. I thought for sure she'd be fine. My friend, who lives in Barrie lost hers as well.

Ever since that loss, I've gone back to my mulching technique. I took a pruning and care workshop from Palatine a few years ago and just do whatever he taught me. hahaha

I saw Julie Andrews in bloom at HomeDepot and didn't buy it (not much scent to my nose). I lost own-root Nahema twice, and Kelly in zone 4 lost 2 Nahemas (both own-root and grafted-on-Dr.Huey). How's your mulching technique? Love to learn from you. Thanks.

My inverted small bucket (bottom cut-off) method didn't work since it concentrated rain ONTO the rose, we have tons of freezing rain in spring that kill roses, and the inverted bucket "concentrates" more rain onto rose's crown, it's like dousing it with acidic rain and turning the canes all black.

Thank you, Tammy! Love it all but Sally Holmes is my absolute favorite!

Sally is the must have in my garden too. I absolutely LOVE her.

Tammy, you have created a beautiful, fairyland garden!