Easy Elegance® Fall Rose Maintenance Tips
Growing roses has been challenging for me in the past, but this season my Easy Elegance® roses were planted in the back garden in a very difficult location where I ignored them most of the season. They performed very well under these harsh conditions, resisting disease and performing well in high heat. Late this season I went out behind the fence to check on the roses and noticed that although they were surrounded by perennials and weeds, they still performed like champs. We cleaned up the weeds, and pruned the roses a bit. The good news is there is no complicated pruning techniques or chemical applications are needed to keep this rose variety healthy. My favorite of the selections I planted was the Easy Elegance® Calypso Rose bush. Below are a few fall rose maintenance tips on how you prepare your roses for winter.
Fall Maintenance for Easy Elegance® Roses
Thrilled that the roses did so well this season I have been prepping all the roses for fall and winter. Fall maintenance or winter prepping is super easy with the Easy Elegance® rose line. Easy Elegance® roses are specifically bred to stand up to winter cold, so you don’t need to do any of the in-depth winter protection like you do for many other roses such as cone covering or plant tipping. Follow the below steps for fall prepping:
- Reduce watering in late summer
- Stop deadheading plants after September 1
- Apply no further fertilizers in order to encourage root growth versus leaf growth
- After a few nights of hard freezes mound loose mulch or compost around the base of the canes up to a height of twelve inches. (see photo above) If you do not have traditional mulch, soil or compost will work fine as an amendment and protective covering (see photo below)
Easy Elegance® Text Program –
Easy Elegance® helps you to be a successful rose gardener by sending you messages throughout the season reminding you to care for your plants. If you would like to join the text program simply Text EASYELEGANCE to 73095 for timely care tips. I used it all season and the program is a great reminder.
I learned a lot about how easy it is to take care of these roses. When I was approached by Easy Elegance® roses at the first of the season and asked to review their roses I had no idea that I would be defending them with my heart and soul. I liked experimenting with the roses and review them positively. They performed well and I found them remarkably easy to grow because there were no complicated pruning techniques and the roses are naturally disease resistant. They were beautiful all season because they are Roses You Can Grow™.
GIVE-AWAY and CONTEST!!!
If you would like to win an Easy Elegance® Prize Package – One (1) pair of Rose Gloves, one (1) Pocket Pruner, and one (1) pair of Easy Elegance branded gloves, LEAVE A COMMENT SHARING A FALL GARDEN TIP IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Easy Elegance® Roses. The opinions and text are all mine. Special thanks to Easy Elegance for allowing me to tell the story of Fall Rose Maintenance Tips.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Easy Elegance Roses. The opinions and text are all mine.
Growing roses has been challenging for me in the past, but this season my Easy Elegance® roses were planted in the back garden in a very difficult location where I ignored them most of the season. They performed very well under these harsh conditions, resisting disease and performing well in high heat. Late this season I went out behind the fence to check on the roses and noticed that although they were surrounded by perennials and weeds, they still performed like champs. We cleaned up the weeds, and pruned the roses a bit. The good news is there is no complicated pruning techniques or chemical applications are needed to keep this rose variety healthy. My favorite of the selections I planted was the Easy Elegance® Calypso Rose bush. Below are a few fall rose maintenance tips on how you prepare your roses for winter.
Fall Maintenance for Easy Elegance® Roses
Thrilled that the roses did so well this season I have been prepping all the roses for fall and winter. Fall maintenance or winter prepping is super easy with the Easy Elegance® rose line. Easy Elegance® roses are specifically bred to stand up to winter cold, so you don’t need to do any of the in-depth winter protection like you do for many other roses such as cone covering or plant tipping. Follow the below steps for fall prepping:
- Reduce watering in late summer
- Stop deadheading plants after September 1
- Apply no further fertilizers in order to encourage root growth versus leaf growth
- After a few nights of hard freezes mound loose mulch or compost around the base of the canes up to a height of twelve inches. (see photo above) If you do not have traditional mulch, soil or compost will work fine as an amendment and protective covering (see photo below)
Easy Elegance® Text Program –
Easy Elegance® helps you to be a successful rose gardener by sending you messages throughout the season reminding you to care for your plants. If you would like to join the text program simply Text EASYELEGANCE to 73095 for timely care tips. I used it all season and the program is a great reminder.
I learned a lot about how easy it is to take care of these roses. When I was approached by Easy Elegance® roses at the first of the season and asked to review their roses I had no idea that I would be defending them with my heart and soul. I liked experimenting with the roses and review them positively. They performed well and I found them remarkably easy to grow because there were no complicated pruning techniques and the roses are naturally disease resistant. They were beautiful all season because they are Roses You Can Grow™.
GIVE-AWAY and CONTEST!!!
If you would like to win an Easy Elegance® Prize Package – One (1) pair of Rose Gloves, one (1) Pocket Pruner, and one (1) pair of Easy Elegance branded gloves, LEAVE A COMMENT SHARING A FALL GARDEN TIP IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.
AND THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER OF THE CONTEST IS….
::DRUMROLL PLEASE::
ROBIN LEE HEWITT — Congratulations my friend!!!! I’ll send you a note ASAP so we can get the prize sent out to you.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Easy Elegance® Roses. The opinions and text are all mine. Special thanks to Easy Elegance for allowing me to tell the story of Fall Rose Maintenance Tips.
Fall offers a wonderful respite from summer’s brutal heat & humidity in my zone 8 garden. It is a great time to weed, add fresh compost, step back & look at bed plans, plant new plant selections or remove under performing plant selections.
Thank you Easy Elegance Roses for rose maintenance tips! Good tips to know!
Great tips – I was still clipping.
Fall is a great time to tidy up your summer color and let them catch their breath for some renewed color. Fluff up the mulch. Plant some of the great options in cool season color, my new faves are the Cool Wave Pansies which will go through the fall, winter and spring season here on the MS Gulf coast.
I’ve started fall cleanup even though it’s not quite fall here in the south yet as we still have days in the high 80’s coming this week. The hurricane left a little bit of a mess in our area, so I’m out here cleaning up any way, so it’s a good time to do fall cleanup too.
I’ve stated putted straw around the tops of some roses and other plants, and cleaning up the dead and done veggie plants. Part of me gets sad this time of year as the blooming plants die off, but then I love the cool evenings and I see my knitting basket in the corner of my living room calling my name!
Hey Shawna — great post. Very helpful. I had two questions for you — do these maintenance tips in general apply to all types of roses? And also, when should you prune the roses back? Thanks!
Thanks Shawna for the information. Fall is a great time to sit back and enjoy your successes and plan for the future. Be sure to collect some seed to share or sow now in the empty spaces.
My fall gardening tip is to give your trees a good deep watering to help them through the winter. Thanks for the heads up about the Easy Elegance text program–how cool is that!
ROBIN – YOU ARE THE BIG WINNER!!!!
Hi Shawna, no doubt that Roses are high maintenance plants that will require frequent attention. We should also need to check roses frequently for insects or disease outbreak.