Hey, good evening, it's Jason here at Fraser Valley Rose farm
Well, l came home from work today, and I found that my bare-root roses have arrived. This is very exciting for me. Trust me
I love adding roses to my collection. I've got them soaking in a bucket of water here prepared for my next step
I want to show you what I do with roses when I received them in the fall and; spoiler alert
I'm not going to put them directly on the ground. I'm actually going to pot them as an intermediate step
But first I wanted to show you who I ordered them from and why I ordered them in the fall in the first place. I
Won't keep you too long in
Screen capture mode here, but I just wanted to show you that your options for ordering
Bare-root may differ quite a lot from mine. If you're in the USA, which many of my viewers are
You have a lot of different options
For purchasing bare-root roses in spring and and fall. If I just change the word up here to Canada
Suddenly I have a lot fewer options and for the Canadian bare-root suppliers
Who ship within Canada? There's Palatine there. There's Hortico a little further down the list and
No offense to them, but they have reduced their Rose selection quite a lot over the past few years
Corn Hill is still quite good. They specialize in cold hardy roses and
Then after that David Austin roses is in the States
But they will ship to Canada
Everybody else is a no-go. So I really don't have that many options. And so if I'm trying to increase my assortment
for my roses here the ones that I can propagate from I either have to do so by trading with other gardeners or I
can look at what's in these suppliers assortments and try to order what I need for for my
Selection. That's what I'm going to do this year with Palatine
I want to show you one thing or a couple of things about
them, so if you go to
The "About Us" section
one thing that I think is interesting to note is that they bud all of the Roses on
Multiflora or Laxa seedling root stock. So that's
interesting to know and
the other thing that I
Looked up before I made my order is
Obviously they have their order minimum listed here
But that they also serve the customers first come first serve and will not take pre-orders for the following Rose season
Obviously they do their harvest in the fall and get ready their roses to throw them into the cooler for the winter
and so when that happens they do fall orders followed by spring orders for
shipping
bare-root roses
And so if I want the best assortment to add to my supply of roses here at the farm the fall
order works better for me. One other reasons I will
Choose to do the fall rather than wait until the spring
is that my spring breaks a lot earlier than theirs does so they're talking about
Taking orders all the way up until March and I don't know exactly when they would be
Shipping them but by that time in February
my spring has already broken here and
if I could get them into the pot in the fall
Yeah, there you go: their spring orders will be shipped from from March 4th to April 29th
So I'll have an extra month of growth on mine just by having them in the pots already this fall
All right. I've taken this bundle out of water now and
The reason I had it soaking in water was just to rehydrate the roots
These have been in a box for about a week, but when I did take it out of the box
It actually looked fairly good so I only gave it a soak for about a couple hours
But not a bad idea to rehydrate your roses
After they've been traveling to you
in the post
They've got five roses all bundled together here quite tightly
And
Okay, so some of what I want to show you here
Actually fairly clean roots nice established roots here
if you're accustomed to seeing
big bare-root roses
from the states
The size of this may not impress you a whole lot: these these canes here. I'm not disappointed at all
These are grown in the Canadian climate, which is not like California or Arizona where they go those long hot summers
this one here is a good hardy rose and
This this top growth is fine for me but what I wanted to show you really quickly here, I think it's
Quite interesting is that this gives you a really good view of the grafting process that they did here. So
The first thing they did is probably three years ago
They planted into the ground a seedling of multiflora rose and it grew
small on the base and the top and then
the following year after it had sized up they took
There you go. Imagine the stem of the original rose here
They took and they graft it in a bud of the top stock. So the root stock multa flora
Exists both as the base and at that point as the Rose on top they've grafted on
the Scion which is the rose that you wanted to buy and then
The following year. So let's call that year 3
Probably I don't know their specific schedule
what they did is they chopped off the head of the multiflora root stock and just left the top stock of
The grafted rose and grew it for another year
So probably and unless I've miscalculated somewhere about their production schedule
this thing here is about a three year old Rose the bottom end here all
From the multiflora seedling and the top stock here from the graft did
Rose and in this case what Rose is it? It's Jacques Cartier and
Jacques Cartier is a Portland rose
That I did not have in my collection. I'm very fond of the Portland's
This one here. Well, there's a big beefy one.
and again and see how chunky the
rootstock here was and
The top of this is Kazanlik and Kazanlik is the rose
where in Bulgaria when they're growing roses for perfume
They make perfume elsewhere the the talking about the Attar of roses or the rose perfume
This one here is the rose that they use for that. I've had some requests for that rose
so I'm gonna grow that now. Oh looks like I I missed some of the packing material here, so
Three more
Roses here
This one here
Is Variegata di Bologna
I've probably pronounced that a little bit wrong and
You know, I just ordered it because I have Bologna in the name, but no actually that's a variegated old garden rose
This one here is
Spectabilis I'll see if I can attach a picture of that one here
I found it to be quite interesting and neat looking and the final one here is
Rosa Alba
sauviolens
so all five are roses that I have not grown myself and
I'm adding them to my collection
so this is this is what they look like unpacked and the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to go ahead and
Throw it into a pot. I thought it might give a quick explanation
As to why I'm not just planting these straight in the ground in the garden. I
ordered these in September and I knew that they would probably be
Arriving here in mid-november right at the time that I ordered it.
The weather is way too unpredictable in my climate to be planting
in the ground in mid to late November, so if you were buying roses for California or for Oregon or some
very
More temperate climate you might consider getting your bare-root roses in the fall and planting them right in the ground in my case
I'm gonna treat them just like I treat my overwinter roses in the greenhouse. I'll put them into some soil in a pot
And let them rest over the course of the winter and they'll get some cool temperatures. That's fine. These are Hardy
I think that at the suppliers place what they would probably do is just put them into a
Humidity controlled cooler and just leave them until spring. I'll be putting them into some soil
I won't be fertilizing and when I'm hoping then is they'll come at my schedule usually
Mid-february or so the temperatures in the greenhouse start coming up to the point where I get new growth and these ones will jump
right into action, and then I'll have
material to cut from
Relatively early in the season. I
Won't spend too much time on this part here talking about the potting
I'm sure you've done this before
but what I did is I just put together a quick mix of
potting soil and
the only thing really important to know about that is
Just not to have fertilizer in it or not too much anyway
The the Rose doesn't need fertilizer until it begins growing
in the spring
And if you put too much fertilizer in you might tend to burn the roots
Okay
Looking at that there. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to fit this into the pot
And you can if you need to trim some of these roots
To get it to fit into the pot. I
Try not to
See the roots are where most of the energy is stored for next year's early growth
I'm just going to Center it like that
try to fit the roots in and
then
Go ahead and pack in the potting soil around it
Don't know quite how to describe how firmly to pack it except to say not to loosely
And not crazy firm
And this would probably about do it
Let's just pack it down like this. Give it a little tap when I'm done
settle it all down and
That is potted for next year
I am going to go ahead and hurry up and do the rest of these now because
Technically, I'm not allowed to have soil in the house
So thank you so much for watching today. If you have any questions, please leave them below the video