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| In my limited experience, I've previously always had spring delivery--for me that's late Feb-March. Some companies don't deliver until April, which is often hot in my climate.
Took a few fall orders from places that will ship now. The plants seem better hardened off & larger. Maybe that's simply logical, coming off of the growing season, but it's been a surprise to me. I was always scared fall weather might get too warm to chance shipping plants. But the band orders this fall are a lot more substantial than plants I've received in spring. When do you like to receive plants? |
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| Since I have fairly mild winters where it doesn't get below freezing too often, I prefer fall because the small plants have a chance to grow and establish a root system before the heat of spring. Sometimes it gets warm early in the spring and the roses planted in full sun are stressed beyond their capabilities. I have planted in early spring but try to make sure that mulching and watering are constant and of course I disbud to encourage essential leaf growth. I haven't had good success with roses planted in late spring; it's just too warm for them here to get a good start. |
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| My experience is fresh stock matters more than spring or fall planting. The sale stuff that has been sitting in a cooler or in a pot on hot asphalt for months has generally less vigor and health than a plant raised, quickly harvested and immediately sold and immediately planted or potted up by me. I've found that with all plants, not just roses, and from all sources, from big-box to specialty seller. Of course it varies by growing zone--planting a rose in zone 3 in September or in Phoenix in July is probably always going to be iffy, fresh stock or not. |
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| Fall plants may be larger simply because they've been growing longer. But I've found fall planting to be useless for me. Even some I planted as early as the first of September didn't seem to have enough time to get established well enough to winter over and didn't come back the next spring. If I plant smaller plants in the spring they have all season to grow and get established before they have to make it through a winter and they do better for me. |
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