Things You'll Need:
- A cool dry place
- A rose
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Step 1
Preparing a potted rose plant for winter depends upon the size of the pot and the type of rose that you have. It requires a fairly large pot for the rose to be planted in while it is dormant for the winter. This will keep the Rose from drying due to the cold winter winds.
Some roses are hardy and won't suffer winter kill, but other roses are not hardy the best way to find out if you know the kind of rose you have is to Google it on the Internet. That way you can find out a great deal of information about any particular rose that you may have. -
Step 2
The first thing to take into consideration is of the fall after the Rose has made its hip's its growing season is over for the year. At that point the rose bush still has leaves, but is preparing to become dormant. It is best to prove the rose bush back until the canes are from 30 to 36 inches long.
Once the leaves dropped you can feed the rose bush with a low nitrogen fertilizer. It will tell you right on the container of fertilizer that the nitrogen content is low. Nitrogen is one of the three fertilizers that all plants need, the other two are phosphorous and potassium. However Nitrogen is the fertilizer that makes plants grow you don't want your plant growing during the winter.
Actually storing the plan for the winter can be as simple as placing the potted plant a cold garage if it is hardy. The other option is to bring the plant in your house and store it in a cool dry place like a basement. Most of the damage that can occur were rows during the winter is a cold dry wind that is apt to kill the canes. Roses are particularly prone to being damaged this way in areas where the temperature goes below zero in the wintertime. This includes virtually all states that are north of Pennsylvania. Another way of preparing roses for the winter is to bundle the canes together and lay the plant over on its side and burying it in a trench that you have dug into the earth.
Like any other plant roses do require natural fertilizer as well as the store-bought variety. This can be supplied by the use of mulch that is made out of partially decayed vegetation. You work the mulch lightly into the soil around the Rose before you put it in storage for the winter. -
Step 3
Now your rose is ready to survive the Winter. Bring it back outside in early April.
