5 Questions: How to Plant a Bare Root Rose

2:55 Planting depth
10:36 Amendments for the planting hole
14:23 Tamping down the soil
15:25 When to plant
16:02 Where to plant

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[Domino_Catt]

I want to become a gardener many people in my family are telling me it's a waste of time but I love learning this stuff

[alanlavich]

Thanks you so much. A perfect 10! No need to look anywhere else if you want to successfully plant a rose. Love your other videos, too. SERIOUSLY, one of the best Internet videos I have ever seen. Thanks again for taking the time to teach. It's indispensable...so

[skyz]

Excellent, excellent, excellent ! Just saved this video. What would we do without you ?

[LORGSW]

I love your teaching methods! The articulate words and logic are very easy to understand. Thank you so much for the uploads.

[maggiemanzke]

I'm so glad you created this video - I'm putting 5 bare root roses in the ground today, and the vendor's advice was woefully incomplete. Thank you! Edit: the vendor gave both soil level and 2-3" below soil level for where to place the crown. I'm so glad you addressed that; I understand the reasons much better now!

[scptcL]

I have heavy clay which I have been amending over the last 15 years so that the top 20cm is very good wormcasts, but it soon becomes swampy lower down in winter, but is like hard clay or dust in summer. I used to follow advice to plant the crown below the soil - but EVERY variety of rose I had rotted - the branches turned black and died back. None ever self rooted. I have started planting at the crown level and they are now thriving. I guess it depends on your soil. If i had a more free draining soil I would plant deeper, but with heavy soils I suggest at the soil level or just above, and mulch around the crown.

[CauleenViscoff]

Great video, Jason.... thank you....just a few thoughts about both planting deeper for a grafted rose and "wind-rock".... in colder zones (5 and lower) we can have a freeze-thaw situation when winter turns to spring, snow melts and the soil surface begins to thaw... if the rose experienced 'wind-rock", where cold, severe winds can move taller canes in unprotected areas - (no tree leaf cover) as the soil is beginning to thaw, any small cracks or small openings in the soil around the crown can fill with water... a late ground frost or freeze can stay for a few days, adding ice to those crevices, splitting the graft leaving it open to insects or more damage... hence the advice to plant the graft a few inches below the surface of the soil. That same freeze-thaw cycle can also lift the crown, leaving the rose even more vulnerable to wind, small critters snacking on tender new growth or more splitting of the graft when ice expands in those cracks. So perhaps planting advice will depend on hardiness zone, garden location and how winters affect roses.

[MariaClara-ltmn]

Youre the best teacher I found in Youtube for Rose gardening. Thank you.

[deeps]

Thanks Jason, the main reason i was searching was due to conflicting advice of depth of the crown. you not only addressed the issue but did so with absolute comprehensiveness. Loved all your arguments and your personal choice as well. thanks once again and will be watching more to learn further about roses. This will be my first ever planting roses in Nov, wish me luck :-)

[msmary]

As always my rose hero! I just accidently ordered a bare root rose. You're the best place to come for advice

[kimberlyoboyle]

Good video! There is definitely some flexibility in some of this, the Syracuse Rose Society plants a few hundred bare rooted roses each year, and the plants are blooming like crazy starting from the first year with our method (we have to do this because we are zone 5). 1) Bud Union exactly 2" below ground level (The reasoning not to have the scion take root, but to protect SOME of the scion from the bitter cold winds if there happens to be no snow cover in the winter, there is something to grow back. Sometimes we don't want the scion to root- like with gallicas, never heard the idea of wind-rock before. ) 2) We throw in a cup or two of bone meal and a quart of "pro mix" mixed into the ground soil to refill the hole. 3) Tamped down gently with a foot, there is always a pile of soil heaped up around the plant at first before it gets a chance to settle, and also because of the volume of the pro mix and amendments. This pile protects crown from those frosts the first month after planting which is done 4) 1 to 2 months before last frosts, we have even planted roses when there has been snow on the ground! and 5) As much sun as possible! (Some parts of the garden aren't getting the 6+ recommended, unfortunately and they do suffer for it, We try to get the city to take down as many old tree limbs as we can)

[mindyterw]

I love Roses and love learning about them and You are the best . thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.

[ulvaervenius]

Double thumbs up! Regarding planting depth, what you say makes so much sense to me. I have always heard that I should plant the rose 3-4 inches below ground. Ending up with not knowing if the new shoots comes from the root or the variety rose. I always end up digging around the rose to look for the origin 😂. Your way is much better! I’m in zone 1 (south Sweden) so the cold isn’t too bad.

Thank you for all your videos 🙏🏻 Always very informative and full of facts.

[Nate-hbtw]

Growing my 1st roses this year and this answered a lot of my questions! Thanks for the great vid

[bizinsky]

Thank you! I have a new bare root rose that’s going in the ground tomorrow.🌹

[SAGjutt]

Great video, i personally prefer to plant roses with grafting crown at least 6 inches above soil, and its doing great for me, i have almost 200 different rose varities with same planting method in pots and soil..

[fadihajjaj]

I live in Ottawa and I planted several roses with the bud union few inches below the soil (4-6 inches). The results are great ! They keep coming back and flower every year ! Some they die all the way back to ground and they grow from the buried canes. The only problem. Have is the Japanese beetles! They are troublesome in July and August

[ronireland]

When I plant roses or all most any plants in the ground I dig my hole fill it with water let it soak in put my plant in add some Soil then add water then let it go down around the roots then top it off with soil then Firm the soil in my hand around the base That is the Web start to do it I'm not arguing with you I do appreciate your Opinion knowledge and experience and will in to learn all that you can teach you! And thank you for all you share with us!

[AmandaViolinGirl]

I agree with your reasoning. I would do the same. My soil unfortunately is a lot of clay so before I plant anything I would get a bag of top soil and mix it with some compost from my own compost bin.

[shelly]

Thank you for the information, I found it helpful. June 10th is our supposed last frost date. We live at 3700 ft in a Douglas fir and pine forest. We have heavy clay and rock, and hard freeze for a long while. We've put in raised and no dig beds. The no dig beds are incised our high tunnels and our raised beds have A-frame cols frame lids. I'm planing on planting 2 climbing roses into 22 " high 4x4 raided beds. They bloom July - Oct. They will grow over the arch we place between the 2 raised beds. Ill be growing a white clematis along with the roses. I plan to use a sandy compost we got 2 yards of that I mix pealrite and peat moss and some native topsoil into, and since the compost is already mostly sand, I won't add anymore sand. I have a few bags of ( In Ground planting mix) for planting tress and shubs in the ground, its black and crumbly. After watching this video I wnat to go dig up all of the new shrubs, Azaleas, blueberries and one rose I've planted and put rhem into raised beds. Not a look I would hoped for tho. We live in the woods. My husband digs deep wide holes I fill with that mixture for most of our plantings. The bare root roses I have are in plastic tubs with lids, and beginning to leaf out while all cozy in a high tunel. We still get in the high 30s and low 40s at night. We could still get snow, hail, frost, and all other bad weather.