Felt cold this morning but later in the afternoon it warmed up some so I decided today was a good day to start on the spring pruning of my roses. Started off in the southside rose garden.
I had been looking there and it seemed like an excessive amount of winter damage. So after pruning I feel like I have many totally dead roses. Not the own root ones, those seem to be fine but in this bed I have many grafted roses and so many look to be totally dead.
I plant with my grafts way below ground and these roses have been there for many, many years. But this past February was simply brutal cold temps and record lows for us so hard on the roses.
I also did rose island but those are all own root except for one. And I think that one is totally dead. Depressing.
I have lots more roses to prune, this was only the beginning.
