I need help with roses, can someone help me?

Experts now say it's a good idea to start fresh each year with your roses - In the late fall, you should remove all leaves from your bushes and rake around the plants to remove any fallen leaves as well. This helps in the prevention of disease and such. You may also want to mulch around the plants, to keep a bit of moisture in and protect the root system.

Cloth, newspaper, plastic or paper bags can all be placed over your bush if you're expecting particularly harsh winter weather. I have a few small garbage cans that I use on mine.

As far as enriching them and the soil, there are so many products on the market now for roses - Take a walk through Lowe's or Home Depot. One of the things I always use on mine is Rose Tone. You basically want to look into a good fertilizer/food for your rose bushes. Unless you plan on digging up each bush and adding new soil and so forth.. That's the best route to go. Good luck!

You need to enrich the soil prior to planting. It's very difficult to condition soil after the fact without doing damage to the roots.

For over wintering, wait until the leaves all drop. Then, prune the stems so that they're relatively equal in length and do not touch one another. Remove completely anything that looks blackened or rotted. Then remove all the leaf litter along with any mulch you have on them. Discard or compost this stuff. Then, if available, sprinkle dried seaweed around the base of the plant; then mulch again heavily with fresh mulch. I strongly discourage using autumn leaves as mulch for roses due to their ridiculous sensitivity to fungal diseases.

Water heavily, then cover with an old sheet or showercurtain when you know it will freeze hard.

You can try vertical mulching the following spring to amend the soil with organic matter.

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First off, be warned, roses are high maintenance. About the only variety I have found to be "easy" is the Knockoff Roses, bright pink/red. They are disease resistance, bloom without a lot of pruning etc.

For your roses, how is the site? Full day sun ? A must.

Good soil? Should be a lot of organic matter with good drainage.

Roses should be mulched to preserve water, they love full sun but dont like to be dry.

Water only at the base in the mornings, do not water in the evening or get leaves wet. They are prone to fungi etc.

Buy a systemic rose fertilizer with insecticide. They are granules you sprinkle at the base

of the plant and mix in with dirt. It will feed the bush for 2 months and kill any bugs that

chew on your roses. This is the single most impt. thing I did with my roses, helps alot. ( after good site selection)

Dead head your flowers, cut back to branch with 5 leaves.

Watch for Japanese beetles, they love roses. Fill a plastic cup with soapy water and gently tap

the beetles in the soapy water. ( hold cup under them, they will fall right in)

For winter, make sure you hard prune the roses only after growing season is over - I do mine a Thanksgiving. Make sure there is 3 inches of mulch at least at the rose base. Cover with rose cones if you have really harsh winters. ( at first snow) Be sure to remove cones and gently rake mulch

at first hint of Spring. Break out the fertilizer/insectided granules! Good luck :) Roses are work.