Cold Climate Roses
Most roses will grow just about anywhere, and in any type of climate. Certain roses do not function very well in cold climates, but will grow just as well in any other. Hybrid Teas are not however, a cold climate rose. They must be grown in a warmer climate like Florida. They simply don’t have the necessary winter protection that some cold climate flowers have.
If you live in an area that is prone to harsh winters, you will likely find it relatively easy to find good, cold climate roses at your local garden center. It is necessary to plant cold climate roses in areas that are prone to winters because planting anything else would be a waste of your time as they couldn’t survive properly during the winter frost.
Cold climate roses are great for many reasons. They are very low maintenance flowers, especially good for the novice.
Cold climate roses also have their very own protection set up against diseases and bacteria that can plague any flower. Here a brief list of cold climate roses. Naturally, there are many more, but to list them all would make up the entirety of this guide.
The cold climate roses are as follows:
- Rugosas
- Griffith Buck
- Modern Roses
- Centrifolias
- Species Roses
- Gallica
- Alba
- Shrub Roses
These are just some of the cold climate roses that will thrive during the harsh winters of some localities. If you live in an area that is prone to harsh winters, you may want to see if your local garden center has any of these to start with.
Revive Wilting Roses
With all of the possible diseases that a rose can pick up, you would think that anybody would be crazy to even plant them.
They are such high maintenance flowers that it would seem to some to be far too much work just to have a bit of beauty in your garden.
As this guide has already stated, there are a great deal of things that can be done to help prevent diseases and pests from damaging your roses. It all seems like so much to do for flowers that only have a life span of about 6-10 days. Of course a healthy bed of roses will constantly produce new buds so that you will rarely even notice anyway.
There is also the problem of wilting and drooping roses once they are placed in vases when they are given as gifts.
Roses look so beautiful in any room that they sit in. They add an elegance that is unsurpassed by any other flower.
As beautiful as roses are, they do have a certain vulnerability that is common for every flower. They are prone to sag, droop and wilt after a few days exposure to a vase. Anybody would like to preserve that beauty for as long as possible and think that its hopeless, but I will show you how you can save your roses if this happens to you.
- Take your roses from the vase.
- Separate the roses, but keep them emerged in Luke warm water as you do it.
- Make a fresh cut on the stem, again while it remains in the water because you don’t want to get air into the stem.
- Take each flower, one by one and roll them in newspaper and close the paper with a rubber band to keep it from unrolling.
- Put each rose while still wrapped in the newspaper in a sink or tub filled with water and let them soak for several hours while still separate.
- Once they have soaked, unwrap them carefully, and place them in a vase of fresh warm water.
- If you want to preserve the health of your roses, put some 7up in the water to help prevent any bacteria that can clog up the stem.
Extra tip: Roses droop for one of two reasons. Either they had been cut too early when put into the vase, or they may have been out of water too long before putting them into the vase.