Growing Roses

Winter Care

In most climates Garden Roses are far tougher than people think. Here's how to help them through winter — and what to do after a hard freeze.

While we don't often think of working in our garden in the winter there are some things you can do well before spring to set your garden up for…

This happens more often than you think. You get a late freeze, a rose appears dead on top with all brown canes. You ask yourself how long should…

We hard a strange winter in 2022/2023 including a cold snap (for us) that killed a good portion of the top of my Claire Jacquier Climbing Rose.…

It's March 13, 2023 and I had a freeze warning flash on my phone. My roses are leafed out and three weeks early. Should I panic! Not necessarily…

Shirley Thompson lives just north of Boston, MA and experiences the typical New England freeze/thaw cycles many northern climates get. She has…