Content
- Cover roses perfectly for optimal winter protection
- Protect roses from frost and winter sun
- Cover roses with spruce or pine-bark
- Pack the tallest roses properly
- Tips
With a fleece or branches, roses are protected from frost
Cover roses perfectly for optimal winter protection
Although roses in our latitudes have been cultivated for many hundreds of years, they are still not completely frost hardy, as a rule. In particular, the shoot base and - in processed varieties - the finishing point should be protected not only from cold temperatures, but also from the winter sun. For this reason, you should cover your roses in winter, which can be used mainly natural materials.
Protect roses from frost and winter sun
Dangerous for the roses are not only the minus degrees, but on milder days especially the winter sun. This can stimulate the juice flow of the plant, which can be very dangerous after another cold snap. Good winter protection begins with the planting, because refined roses should be planted in such a way that the finishing point is buried at least five centimeters deep and thus covered with plenty of warming earth. Finally, in the autumn, pile up the above-ground trunk base with soil or compost at least 20 centimeters high and finally cover everything with fir or spruce twigs.
Cover roses with spruce or pine-bark
Tannenreisig in particular is very suitable for covering the roses, but the branches keep their needles much longer than the also often recommended spruce. If you have the choice, always use the more permanent fir-tree sprig. The coniferous branches effectively withstand wind and cold and also make sure that the winter protection looks a little better than bare earth mounds. You can remove the softwood branches in early spring, but the mounds are only removed after the shoot.
Pack the tallest roses properly
Since the sensitive finishing point of high-stem roses can not be buried in the soil, these plants should be packed very carefully. Use jute or fleece to wrap the crown around it. Before that, however, put between the branches fir or spruce branches, because they provide additional protection. Young, still-bendy, tall-stemmed roses can often be bent down to the ground, so you can completely cover the crown with soil. However, this old-fashioned method works only with young woody plants, with older ones the risk of splintering and breaking is too high.
Tips
Never use foil or similar plastics to pack and cover the roses because they are not breathable. Under this accumulates the moisture, which in turn favors the development of fungal diseases.