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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Protection for Roses?
Message-ID: <606@ihuxi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 11:01:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 11:01:05 1983
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I live in the Chicagoland area, and need some advice for protecting my
15 rose bushes (hybrid tea and floibunda). Last year, I bought rose cones,
cut back the bushes, punched air holes in the cone tops, covered the bud unions
with earth, covered the roses with the cones, and awaited Spring. Alas, when
I uncovered them in the Spring, all but one had died to the ground. A nursery
recommended a mulch that would allow greater air circulation, such as leaves.
Unfortunately, I live in a new subdivision with virtually no trees large
enough to produce enough leaves. Can anyone recommend an alternate means of
protecting the roses this winter?

Thanks,

B. Walsh