How do I take care of my tree roses? Is there special winter care?

Tree roses are not hardy enough to stay outside in the winter but don’t bring them inside your house because they can be finicky and hard to keep happy. Keep them outside till Thanksgiving and then bring them into your garage and care for them there.

What do I need to be successful in my rose garden?

Some of the top recommendations for successful rose gardening would be sunlight, nutritious soil, organic rose-tone, rose gauntlets, Felco pruners.

What is the difference between full-sun, partial-sun, and shade?

Full sun is six or more hours of direct sunlight, part sun is four to six hours of sunlight including some afternoon sun, part shade is four to six hours of sun before midday, full shade is less than four hours of sun.

Rosa, Shrub Rose 'Champlain'

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Sun Preference: Full-Sun
Bloom or Harvest Time: June, July, August, September

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Description

This popular Explorer series rose features clusters of beautiful double true-red flowers all season long; bushy, upright habit, durable and resistant to disease, a top notch garden beauty; all roses need full sun and well-drained soil

Zone: 3-7
H 3-4' x W 3-4'

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Height: 4 feet

Spread: 4 feet

Sunlight: full sun

Hardiness Zone: 3a

Group/Class: Explorer Rose

Description:

Ornamental Features

Champlain Rose features showy lightly-scented red flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy tomato-orange hips displayed from mid to late fall. The spiny brick red bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

Landscape Attributes

Champlain Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a high maintenance shrub that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

Disease
Spiny

Champlain Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Mass Planting
Hedges/Screening
General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Champlain Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

SKU	Container Size
RS1070	#2 Container (2 Gallon)
RS1072	#5 Container (5 Gallon)

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Bloom or Harvest Time	June, July, August, September
Sun Preference	Full-Sun
USDA Hardiness Zone	3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Product Questions (15)

Tree roses are not hardy enough to stay outside in the winter. So ideally you have hopefully left them in some sort of pot. Continue to leave them outdoors, keep them well watered through the autumn. Come about Thanksgiving, they should be dormant- all...

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Hardiness is the capacity of a cultivated plant to withstand adverse conditions, usually its tolerance of low temperature. Plants are given a hardiness rating by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 11 zones based on the coldest or warmest temperature...

Some of the top recommendations for successful rose gardening would be: 1) Sun (8+ hours of sunshine) 2) Nutritious soil (add compost every spring) 3) Organic Rose-tone...

It is an organic, slow release, fertilizer. It gently adds organic nutrition to your soil over a long period of time, which feeds your roses. There is a potential for multiple intense repeat blooms. To shop Espoma Rose-tone, click ...

Yes, you can overwater plants. Especially in pots but also in the ground, however, planting in the ground allows for better water dispersion so the odds of overwatering are less. Low lying areas may be more prone to flooding. Areas with clay soil also...

A rough estimate for the last frost date here in zone 4b is the first week of May. This is not exact, as Minnesota weather can be variable, but it does help for plantings.

Use ant repellents. Terro = Grease Ants Revenge = Garden Ants NOTE: Before bringing...

Root stimulators provide a hormone to the root system to recover faster from any damage done during the transplant process. This will also help the roots grow faster and stronger. To view Gertens recommended root stimulator, click ...

Full sun is six or more hours of direct sunlight (Note: afternoon sun is the hottest). West side: plants that like it hot and dry. Part sun is four to six hours of sunlight including some afternoon...

Cut the dead flower off just above the first five leaflet junction on the stem. NOTE: The dead flower usually has 3 leaves just below the bloom. They will come off with the dead flower.

A fungicide with copper in it will take care of black spot. You must start spraying the fungicide before you start seeing it. Most of the time black spot will not hurt the plant, it just doesn’t look the best.

Root stimulator works to stimulate the roots for more rigorous growth, which in turn creates a healthy rose bush. Gertens’ expert Rosarian states, “Roses are really capable of coming back from extreme trauma if they have a fantastic root system underneath...

Rose hips are the fruiting body of the rose. After roses have done their job (been beautiful and brought in the bees), the plant will start to swell and create the fruiting body of the rose, called the rose hip.

It depends on the kind of damage the rabbits have done on your cane. Roses break dormancy from a set of dormant buds on the cane and if the rabbits have chewed all dormant buds off, then the rose must essentially use their backup set of dormant buds. ...

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