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Need some quick suggestions for baby roses

Hummingbird Roses
16 years ago

Last night's deep freeze, upper teens, caught me completely by suprise. Overnight temps up until then had been upper 30's, so I had not taken my 200 baby potted roses into the unheated garage where they would be spending the winter yet. Many still had buds on them.

This morning I am struggling with what I can do, if anything, to save them. The pots (dirt) are frozen solid. I've moved them all into the garage, but don't know if it will make no difference now. Have the frozen roots determined they are all goners?

I am giving up my garage for them in Michigan for the winter, mind you, but if there's no hope and I've killed them, I might as well use the garage myself.

I'm simply heartsick, as most of these roses I had propagated for family members that visited my garden in the summer. I was going to give them out in the spring after breaking dormancy and growing a little.

Should I give them a water, to maybe unfreeze the soil? Suggestions....PLEASE!!!!

Thank you....Mindy

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