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tantefrancine said:I would check how Winter hardy your roses are. Usually they in the description, some are hardier than others. Then just do what they suggest, Lots of my roses were killed when it got very warm in very early Spring, and then it got very cold later in Spring. I was not prepared, the plants are already getting new leaves and when it froze again for weeks, lots of them did not make it.

What Tante said should be taken to heart.
I have lost most roses due to warm spring, the roses are uncovered and then a hard freeze.
They may die quickly or slowly go away but they die.

Up here I have to totally cover my roses, or bury them, but they should be de-leafed and doused, heavily , with bio-fungicide, if you are going to cover them.
Failure to do that, well enough, cost me a large tough rose recently.
It depends on what type roses you have, mine are mostly Hybrid Tea, I have three bush roses I simply cover the ground with leaves but as they are on the South side of the garage, it is far warmer there