The New Dawn roses have produced one of the last roses this autumn, a beautiful pale pink rose, just beginning to unfold. Outside here it's already 49 and the weather service predicts lower temperatures tonight. I live in a micro-zone called "Colder than the Other Side of Town" or "the Great White North;" I often have frost when others do not. Tonight you can see your breath already.
Do I bag the rose to make sure it doesn't freeze?
With a paper or plastic bag? With a little added moisture in the bag (an old rosarian trick) or not?
Help! I'd like to see my beautiful pale pink rose fully bloom--outside.
Or should I (wince) cut it?
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that's a tough one, TruthP
i can't say i know. roses don't seem to like me, and i've killed three in three years (cheap ones, tho). but i'd imagine a delicate bloom like on a rose wouldn't survive a freeze well at all. check the weather, and when it's going to get way down there, cut off the blooms and bring them inside for a display. that's what i'll be doing with some of my not-frost worthy blooms that are still going. can you even believe i have a second/cut back hollyhock bloom right now? it's amazing.
If you can still see, put up a "tent" over it and lightly dampen
the outside (as in with a sponge or mister, not a water hose).
If you can put e.g. a candle-fed lantern inside the tent, so much the better (a tea candle in a mason jar set on a brick).
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
It takes a hard freeze to ruin roses--at least into the 20's.
I would think just tenting this tender bud would work well--only one left? Or should you cover the entire rose bush with something not too heavy and not too likely to get caught on the thorns.
Or blow air into the bag and then tie around the stem, perhaps?
Good luck!
Bubble wrap-have any large sheets of bubble wrap? Excellent
insulator--clip as air tight as possible with clothes pins.
Did your rose make it?
What did you did?