If the garage is insulated opening and closing the door shouldn't matter. That shouldn't drop the temp down that quickly that it would matter. Do remember to water them all winter as Summer said.

Thanks for the replies, My garage is attached but is not insulated. Not to concerned about two of them. They are Loretta Lynn Van Leer and even thou they were not a great shape when I got them. I've had others in bad shape that took off shortly after planting. These have been lifeless. Seil do you think there is any chance in an uninsulated garage. I know thou a lot depends on the winter. So far that jet stream is still bending straight out of the north.

Since you have an uninsulated garage, you will have to insulate the roses. If you have sleeping bags, put on as many as you have. Group your roses together and pile on blankets, sleeping bags, whatever you have. Make it thick. I wouldn't put them on the floor, especially if your garage in uninsulated. Put them on plywood or whatever. Remember to take their leaves off, and to water them really, really well. I don't put mine into the garage until the weather is -6C (21.2 F). Take off the leaves and really water them. Then cover them mightily and leave them alone until January or so. Is the soil dry when you check them in Jan?, then water with about 1/2 cup. Since your garage isn't insulated, I would try to keep the garage door closed as much as possible. You could even bag up leaves, put the bags of leaves all around and on top of the roses. Then cover with sleeping bags. Good luck!!

Carol

I have an attached, uninsulated garage, and the pots don't get any additional insulation and do fine. They are larger pots. When they were in smaller pots, I put them in cardboard boxes. Aside from that, they didn't seem to need any sort of pampering. The garage doors go up and down for the cars. I try to keep them closed when running the snowblower, but that is to keep the snow from being blown into the garage, not because of the roses.

Well do Carol I have lots of leaves and blankets. One more question if I may? I also have a spot in the garden that I can bury them. Does anyone think this might be better.

I was going to experiment with 3 identical cuttings but ended up planting them. When it gets really cold I'm dumping dry bagged soil on them if they live great if not root them earlier next spring.

Mad now thats my way of doing it. Sounds great!

I guess, I'm from a much colder zone. I'm in zone 3. So you should listen to Mad_Gallica. Sorry for butting in. :)

Carol

Carol you're definitely not butting in I always appreciate your advice I have never attempted this before. I think that the winter two years ago we may have been colder than you were. Since I've been growing roses we had been having very mild winters compared to when I was a child. I fell into a lull thinking maybe we would never see that kind of weather again.

I was planing on wrapping them up before I even asked this question. In my opinion they jumped the gun changing zones. Global warming can also bring severe cold.

Please don't quit answering my questions I need your cold zone experiences. This winter is going to be boring and I have a lot of question to ask you.

Christian Bedard spoke at our rose society and said they should have called it global climate change instead of global warming. It's hard to believe there is global warming when you have harsh winters. Best wishes to all of you in the cold zones.

Yes, I had also heard this. There was a congress man last winter who held a snowball in his hand mocking global warming and the need for change. Besides silently wishing I could place that snowball down his shirt. All I could think was please educate yourself dear.

If you haven't, you might want to read about the "Little Ice Age".

About overwintering in a garage. Friends who had yellow floribunda tree roses in zone 6b knew from experience that those floribundas would have problems holding their canes even if they weren't standards. So each winter they moved them into their garage. In their garage, the three standards lived in front of a window that got direct sunlight from the south. Around those standards, they made a folding 'room divider' that cut off the blast of cold that would come when the door opened to move cars in and out. That kept the roses going until they moved several years later.

In Connecticut voles are a problem--they can strip the bark and kill the roses.

I've also lost strawberry and begonia plants to chipmunks when trying to over-winter them in a weather protected area that couldn't be reached by the owls and hawks.

Thanks, Patty. :)

Carol

One more thing, I also put out some mice poison in the garage so they won't eat the roses.

Okay, I have no idea how to overwinter anything since I never really see winter down here, but I just had to comment on this one.

When I read your subject line I thought I was in the wrong garden forum and that I might get in trouble with the FBI if I commented on this. I must say though, I was curious about how one would overwinter marijuana...lol.

;-p

Oh my lord obviously thats a pot. So funny, so now you know why I've never had a job proof reading. Wonder how many others wanted to say that. :-) Oh my oh my

I've seen documentaries on the Little Ice Age and have done some reading thou not enough. Thank goodness I can read better than I write.

I don't think pot will overwinter well lol! It has been pretty harsh the last couple of years, hopefully El Niño will give us a break this year. Summer I know you don't want critters in your garage, but I always worry about putting out mouse poison. Any critter that eats a mouse that has ingested the poison gets poisoned as well, so it can affect the predators that we depend on to control the rodent population. I know every year here the raptor rescue gets a bunch of birds that have rodenticide toxicity. They recommend the live traps or snap traps instead. Don't mean to be preachy, just an FYI :)

Julie

That's too funny!!! It never occurred to me that pot could be thought of as marijuana in this context!!! Since all of my roses are in pots, I automatically think roses! LOL

CArol

Patty I hope your pot overwinters ok... lol... Pots I mean ;-)...