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I live in zone 4 and want to plant a few rose bushes. Is there anyone that can suggest some hardy growing roses for our zone that would do well. I have not had alot of luck in the past. So just wondering. Thanks for any info. Bonnie aka dancecoach2
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I'm certainly no expert but do you have a local nursery? The two nurseries I go to, small family owned type places, have the best staff. Their recommendations are always right on and they really give good advice.
Also search online for your zone...
I use Gurney's a lot for information...and everything I've bought from there has done well. I haven't bought roses from them though. Might give you some info though.
Good luck!
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Hey thanks for the info. Yes, the local nurseries are pretty helpful I will have to take a run over and check with them. I just thought maybe someone had a particular one they found to be great overall and hardy.
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dh's grandparenst are in zone 4 Minnesota(Backus). they are very good gardeners and she told me they have never been able to grow roses. Hopefully the nursury will have best info.
allgirls
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I will check with my MIL. We are also in Zone 4 and she had BEAUTIFUL rose garden in her back yard (they are in the Twin Cities). They where huge bushes and bloomed every summer with gorgeous blooms.
I will email her today, and post once she lets me know.
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Here is the information from my MIL...
"I know we had a Mr.Lincoln (very big, very red, and smells like heaven) - also, Tropicana
(this is peachy in color - also smells good) - Double Delight (white and red - smells good too) As you can see, we went for the smelly ones. We didn't have much luck with yellow roses - don't know why. All the roses we had were tea roses with the exception of a climbing rose called Queen Elizabeth (this was the most beautiful climbing rose I have ever seen - it was double and just kept on blooming and blooming) We also had a
Queen Elizabeth tea rose which grew to about 6 feet and was a beauty also. Those are the ones and stick in my memory, although we had several more. I used to use a systemic fertilizer on them (this is a fertilizer and "bug repellent" all in one - that way I didn't have to spray or dust or any of that stuff. In the winter I would do what's
called the "Minnesota Tip". I would cut them back after the frost took all the leaves, spray them with a disinfectant, them tie them up in bundle. Then I would dig a trench from the base of the rose long enough and wide enough and deep enough so that I could "tip" them in the ditch and then cover them up with the dirt that came out of the ditch. I would mark them with sticks and string so that I knew where they were and what direction they were going in. Then I would cover them with leaves - that's about it "
HTH
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sorryI messed up they are zone 3(backus, MN). I am zone 4 and don't do the trench thing. But I also grow scrub roses which are much hardier. altought my friends mom had a fanastic rose garden with about 10 varieties.
allgirls
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be sure to just ask also when you buy them...they can give great tips..some need to be planted in manure...or treated with special acids.