Usually, yes. Snow helps keep the plant at a constant temperature, generally warmer than the surrounding weather, particularly wind chill. Winters without snow cover usually have significantly greater damage than those with plenty of the stuff. Kim

Snow is the best winter protection there is for roses. Not only does it keep it at a constant temperature but it protects it from drying winds and keeps soil moist all season too. Just leave it alone and let it melt on it's own and your rose should do great.

What kind of rose?

As all you know winter started & this is the best time to protect roses,snow is really help it protects it from drying winds and roses also looking so beautiful in the combination of red & white with snow fall

The weather has warmed up some and some of the snow has melted and some bits of the rose are sticking up, I hope it does not screw up the rose bush, as to what kind of rose it is, it is Peace. I can't wait until they bloom, I will probably drive you all crazy with all the pics. And as you can see, I changed my name, it is now a variation of Martha, so I think I will keep it that way. Nopets was just a name off the top of my head. Thanks for the advice on changing it.

How old is the rose?

If it is an old rose and has gone through this before, it should be fine.
If it is a new rose you would be best to cover it and keep the snow there to keep it at a fairly constant state till spring.

I have lost more hybrid teas to weather pattern changes, warm, cold, warm, extreme cold (that one kills) than any other thing.

This post was edited by RpR_ on Fri, Jan 11, 13 at 15:19

It is the rose I planted last summer, it was the one that got ran over by the lawn mower and I thought i lost it. So you think I should shovel some more snow on it? That would not be too much trouble to do.

what do I need to do to protect my Peace rose? The rain washed all the snow off and it is 50 degrees. But it is going to get back down to the 30's and 20's, and I don't want to lose it, should I cover it with a bucket or a flower pot? it is early January and you know how the weather changes, I think we are going to get some freezing rain too, please help, I don't want to lose her, she had such a rocky start.

It is probably too late to find a bag of leaves so, get a bale of straw/hay or two.

I protect my young herbaceous peonies this way.
I keep enough bales in the garage to last about four to five years and if you cannot keep them inside, I put them in large garage bags when stored outside.

Depending on how high the rose still is,if it is too high trim it down to fit inside, make a three-sided enclosure, or as many side as needed, with each bale section about eight to ten inches thick.
Use the remaining bale as a lid and as stuffing in the open spaces.
I have also done this with roses when I am tired of digging and burying.
It works well but unless you can afford a lot of bales, is best used for no more than can be enclosed by the length of a standard bale if you are doing more than one.(Then you can just use five bales with four as side and one as a cap, filling empty space with leaves.)

It helps to have a ball of baling twine as it will last for decades and then you can also put a loop around the whole thing and tie it together so wind does not affect it.
You may also be able to use the twine on the bale.

If you have big enough one a tomato cage can be put around it also. This I have also done.
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It is best if the plant is either covered heavily enough so it is in a semi-constant state, but do not cover it so the sun will cook it.
This is why I do not use solid containers pails, buckets, large pots unless I can cover them also with straw/hay or leaves so the sun does not wreak havoc.

In a worst case scenario and twenties are coming put what ever you have over it and put an old rug or blanket or two over that as you would to save tomatoes from a freeze.

If you only have one rose and the ground is not frozen too hard you could also bury it and then put a container over that spot to mark it and stop from walking on it.

This post was edited by RpR_ on Fri, Jan 11, 13 at 15:18

well, so far I put some leaves on it and in the exposed places. It is not big enough for a bale of hay/straw, I would have more left over than I would use. The place where it is is marked with bricks and on one side there is a wooden part of trellis. So I think I will go out tomorrow and put some more leaves on it, there are plenty all over the yard, I figured that if I put enough leaves on it that would help. I want so much to see it bloom, I can hardly wait, thank you for your advice and suggestions I appreciate it.

Leaves will do and use as many as possible.

I got lazy this year and I have one old, old, old rose, over by itself, I simply put a pile of leaves on, and an old rung on top of that and a small full bag of leaves on top of that.

You do not normally get a lot of below zero so you should be fine with leaves.

i added a pile of leaves and a few sticks to hold it in place, and then I thought of the freezing rain we are supposed to get and put a lot of leaves on top of that and found some big sticks and a few pieces of the bark of the tree to hold the leaves down, I think that will be alright, as you say we have not had a lot of below zero weather in a long time, and I hope we don't. As long as we don't get a lot of high winds it should stay, when should I start taking the leaves off?

When any chance of a frost is past you can take the leaves off.
IT is best-- to wait until you are pretty sure that you will not get a sudden large cold front coming in as a non-killing cold will not hurt the rose but I have found that mine go into a funk and just sit there, green and that is all, often for a long time, before really growing again.

Yours is still adjusting to its area, as it gets older and bigger, it should adapt.