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Are there any miniature roses or miniature climbers that are good to Zone 4. After a particularly hard winter we are replacing many roses. We would like to insure that we will not have this particular problem again by replacing the roses with harder ones?
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We have had a very bad winter. We have about 26 JP Simplicity roses lining the driveway. 6 survived the winter. We've lost up to 6 in a winter but never only had 6 left. We were looking for a different rose to replace them and wondered about Alexander Mackenzie. I used Roses for Michigan by Nancy Lindley for the suggestion. When I looked it up here it said it was a climber. I need a suggestion for a solution to this problem. We are cutting down on the number of roses and gardens we had designated for roses after this winter but I really don't want to give up on the roses along the driveway.
Plymouth, MI Zone 5
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Kay,
You can do an ADVANCED SEARCH for roses in the HelpMeFind database by zone. Here are the steps:
1. Click ROSE SEARCH on the navigation bar to the left
2. Click the ADVANCED SEARCH tab
3. Click GROWING
4. Select the zone where you garden
5. Click CONTINUE
6. Click SEARCH
A list of links to roses will appear and you can click on any link to reach the rose page. If you find a rose you like, just click the BUY FROM tab in the upper right portion of the rose page and scroll down and you will find a list of nurseries which have indicated that they carry that rose in their inventory.
Please note that HMF is a work-in-progress, so the list may be incomplete. We update zone information whenever we find that kind of information about a rose.
Often the way we learn about hardiness is by comments from site users. Each rose page has a COMMENTS & QUESTIONS tab. You can click that tab and see what other site users have posted about the rose you are researching.
I hope this helps.
Smiles,
Lyn
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