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Posted: Oct/16/2009 3:48 PM PST
I want to wrap my roses in burlap this year and put some kind of mulch around the canes - there is a rose garden in my city that uses straw - but can I fill the burlap with pine needles? I didn't wrap my bushes last year and had a lot of winter kill. Also, I had to prune my climbing rose down to the ground because of black spot, and the shoots are very short and tenter... |
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Posted: Oct/18/2009 9:15 PM PST
The far end of the main rose gardens at my house are pines. Those are probably my sturdiest and most dependable roses. Go ahead. |
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Posted: Oct/25/2009 3:23 AM PST
Thanks Sass! Do you wrap your roses? It seems to me you have said you don't - I don't know whether I should bother, but I am disappointed in my Honey Dijon this year and I don't know whether it was a problem with winter kill or black spot. Or both. So I want to do what's best... |
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Posted: Oct/27/2009 9:21 PM PST
I don't wrap, only because I always had plenty of leaves. Even with the two cotton woods gone now, there are still plenty. |
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Posted: Oct/29/2009 3:17 PM PST
Hi  I am up to my waazoo in pine trees and their needles will definitely protect your roses! I've used them for years and with the snow we get ( i'm at the 4000 ft elevation) my roses have survived some pretty deep snow. In fact, I need to start covering them now. Our temps have already gotten down to the 40's and I've got my new roses to protect. So, go for it, it works!  marian |
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Posted: Nov/15/2009 5:28 PM PST
Never prune climbing rose bushes to control black spot for two reasons. Climbing roses only produce buds on two year old or more stems. Black spot mainly attacks the foliage, sprinkle sulfur on the ground early in the spring and rose dust on the new foliage every week and especially after it rains. |
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Posted: Nov/19/2009 7:49 AM PST
Oops. I guess I'll be waiting for blooms for 2 years... 
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Posted: Nov/20/2009 8:36 AM PST
I have never used pine needles.........as we have no pines here.....but I have used hubby's sawdust, leaves and both work fine. I also have purchased cones in the last years and so use them........but I only have 3 roses........and a hibiscus.......which gets the same treatment. I need to get that done tomorrow.........it is freezing good and proper every morning...so HOP tO BIRDIE! 
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