5 Mistakes in Rose Care During the Fall That Can Ruin Them

Rose care schedule:

Here in this video I am focusing on 5 mistakes which beginner rosarians might make in taking care after their beautiful roses during the fall season. Roses are highly developed plants and need some extra attention during the fall. If you make these mistakes, you run the risk of weakening the health of your roses and possibility of no survival through winter.
0:00 5 Mistakes in Rose Care
0:41 Mistake #1 (Hight Nitrogen Feed)
3:28 Mistake #2 (Strong Watering Schedule in the Fall)
5:27 Mistake #3 (Not Being Vigilant about Possible Rodent Damage)
6:52 Mistake #4 (Continual Deadheading through the Fall)
7:50 Mistake #5 (Leaving Leaves/Debris under Roses)

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[OlgaCarmody]

🌹🌹🌹🏵🏵🏵If you want to support my garden and my channel, please do so by clicking on "Thanks" button just under the video! Many garden thanks for doing it, but no pressure at all...

[JuneCleaver]

I am certainly guilty of too much deadheading, . I'm a stickler about that with my annuals to get the most out of them. Didn't realize I shouldn't do that with roses. Thanks, Olga. (Nice to get a glimpse of your son. 😉)

[nishawong]

Thank you, this was so informative! 🌼🌹🏵️🌹🏵️🌹🌼

[nnagle]

thanks for the tips - I have not seen some of these.

[graceinthegarden]

Thank you. As of now, no more dead heading my roses. Great information.

[amypetersen]

Thank you Olga. My oldest son is leaving home this fall as well. I'm excited for him, but also it hurts my heart. ❤

[nikkitrautman]

This is exactly the video I needed! I was just standing amongst my collection of potted baby roses (all new additions in the first year in our new home) and wondering what I needed to do differently as fall arrives. I am in western Connecticut and new both to living in New England and to gardening in general.

Thank you for your videos, Olga. They have been so helpful and inspiring as I begin to garden our new property. I even have three Lady of Shalott roses coming next week because of your videos. I am so excited for next year to see if they will thrive as much as yours has--she's simply gorgeous!

[Thunderbird-if]

Excellent tips for preparing roses for winter! 🌹

In my experience regarding rugosas, a colossal mistake people make in cold climates is treating these plants as if they're hybrid teas or David Austins; people erroneously hack them down during the fall unnecessarily, taking off flowering wood for the following year as well as neglecting to distinguish between young and old unproductive wood. Rugosas are fully cane hardy over winter and don't enjoy being set back by hard pruning in fall. This creates a vulnerable wound weakening the plant overall. They're best pruned before breaking dormancy in spring, using proper pruning techniques and treated entirely on their own merits.

I've also encountered individuals who insist on controlling or supressing their rugosa's natural size by hacking them down during the fall, when all is needed is to select the correct 'dwarf' variety (ie: Pavement series rugosas, the Grootendorst varieties and others like Moje Hammarberg). Again, being mindfull of proper pruning techniques in respect to this unique species and its hybrids.

[Ladythyme]

Excellent info…just what I was looking for….I’m new at planting Roses….my first year in zone 6 in NW NJ…. Thank you!

[Laura-rxmp]

Thanks Olga. Always enjoy your videos.

[loveart]

Thank you for this informative video! Love your

[NYC_Urbanista]

Thank you for the excellent & invaluable information! I especially appreciate your advice to allow the hips to form in place of deadheading going into the Fall season. I'm so happy to have found your channel & am now a proud new subscriber. Happy gardening!

[angelagalbreath]

I just discovered your channel and love it. I am in zone 6b. I have found a solution to the urge to deadhead in the fall is to just use your hand to help the faded petals off leaving the hips behind. Usually I try to catch the petals in a small trug or bucket I carry around with me. I think it helps my bushes look neater and I’ve lost the urge to deadhead late in the season.

[rootelation]

I was just about to comment that some of us wake our roses in fall after letting them rest through summer because our climate is so hot and then YOU SAID IT 😁❤️ Nice video

[MartaAlternative]

Helpful video. I have 7 roses in my garden but I'm still very much beginner when it comes to taking care of them. I live in windy and rainy Ireland and I think it makes growing roses more challenging 😢

[annann-fnzi]

Hi Olga, do you have sceptered isle in your garden? If so would you please review? Thank you!

[mariniedermeyer]

Hello Olga,
thanks for your many videos, which are so helpful for me as a beginner rose gardener! You’re Lady of Shalott is a dream!! I watched through most of your videos but I am still wondering what do to with long shoots that have buds on the top? I bought and planted my rose beginning of July, but it was a spring 2021 potted rose. Now it’s been out in my bed for some months and does huge shoots reaching approx 1.1m. I want to keep it as a nice shrub. So go I cut them right down to the „baby“ level. Or do I leave them a little higher hoping the rest of the rose will grow up as well? The rose had Thread for shoots like this. Hope you have a great start into September! Many thanks and greetings from Switzerland (Zone 7b) :)

[gardensenglishanddance]

Judging by the roses which I have seen over the last couple of years it is very, very difficult to kill them (unless one is a rodent such a European water vole, for example). My roses grow in extremely poor and sandy soil but with a little bit of regular TLC they perform without fail. This year I have seen a rose which grows in a crack in asphalt, nobody ever waters or fertilises it and it blooms anyway.

[r.b.]

I total agree - except the mulch - roses do better with no bark mulch. Better to put rose-compost or old horse manure on the soil in fall. Coffee ground is very good for the soil.

[julesdavis]

Thank you. I’m in Connecticut and am uncertain about just trimming roses at this time of year. October. Zone 6b. I worry that the roses will try to push new growth. Will the cool temperatures signal them not to?