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[TheOldLady]

31° here and pouring down snow. The white blanket is forming over the grass again. It actually protects the grass.

I didn’t know that when we first moved here, and after my first Winter, I was astonished to find that there was green
grass where the snow had melted. I thought it would be all dead and gone, but Bryan said that grass has anti-freeze.

Who-da thunk it?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[DJ MacWoW]

Snow is a wonderful insulator. We have none and it’s been 2 to 9 degrees at night. My roses have had no insulation. There’s not many left of the 40 or so that I had. Looks like there’s going to be even fewer next spring.

[TheOldLady]

I think Home Depot carries bare-root roses in the Spring for people in just your situation. Also, you can loosely
bury your rosebushes in mulch and then burlap bag each of them to protect them from the frost monsters.

My mother did that when we lived in Massachusetts, and when we moved to California, she was delighted that
there was no need to do it there.

[DJ MacWoW]

My rose friend and pastor uses styrofoam cones on his roses. The problem is critters tunnel underneath to live in the mulch over the winter. He lost quite a few roses. LOL

I've been replacing hybrid teas with Knockouts, iris and day lilies. It's just not worth the aggravation and I can't afford to replace them every spring.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Jim Robinson]

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