How to Plant Bare Root Roses

Roses add beauty to the garden and bare root rose bushes are an affordable and easy way to grow them. Gardener Scott shows how he plants and pots bare root climbing roses. (Video #508)

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it’s a big day in my garden because I’m
planting my rose bushes these are
climbing roses that will work their way
up the posts of my pergola and turn this
into an incredible visual component
within my garden join me today as I show
you how I plant these be root roses
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hi I’m Gardener Scott and my be root
roses are sitting in a bucket of water
right now I opted for be root plants for
a couple different reasons I ordered
online and generally many of the rose
bushes you’ll get when you order them
from online nurseries will arrive
dormant in a bare root condition you can
buy potted rose bushes both are viable
options to plant in your garden
typically
the be root are going to be less
expensive than the Potted ones that you
might find at your local Nursery I also
chose the be root because of their
dormancy as I’m going to put them in my
garden my crazy Colorado weather it’s
hot it’s cold it’s warm I never know
what it’s going to be when I put a
dormant plant into the soil when the
soil reaches the right temperature and
the air temperature is right and the Sun
is right the pl plant determines when it
starts to Bud and for me this is going
to be the best option when your plants
arrive make sure they’re the ones that
you ordered and the first thing you’re
going to do is put them into a bucket of
water you want to submerge The Roots
completely and leave them in the water
for 24 to 48
hours your roses will do well if you can
plant them in a nice rich loose well-
draining soil now I knew that these
roses were coming so I went ahead and
prepared this spot I worked in compost
and organic matter into my native soil
and it’s just been sitting waiting for
the plants to arrive because it’s
planting day it’s time to dig a hole now
the hole should be about 1 and 1 half to
two
times the depth and the width of these
be root
plants if you haven’t previously amended
your
soil start thinking about it at this
point as we fill in this hole we’re
going to want to fill it in with good
soil and that will include compost and
organic matter
these be root roses have been soaking in
water now for about a day and a half I
want to put them into the soil and
retain that moist environment so the
hole is dug going to go ahead and
add some water at the bottom so that it
will drain lower and to the sides
now it’s time to start getting these
plants into their respective holes I
highly recommend anytime you’re working
with the rose bushes wear leather gloves
those Thorns can be sharp and
painful now I’m going to go ahead and
pull out the
plants and start inspecting them and I
just felt the thorn good thing I’m
wearing gloves
and so this is a cup of gold climbing
rose that’s what’s going into this hole
right here when I have the rose bush out
I can start inspecting there’s a broken
route if I see any other damage I’ve got
my pruners all ready to go if it looks
like any of these roots are circling
back towards another I’ll go ahead and
prune them
off everything actually looks pretty
clean run off some of these really long
ones and I think this plant is ready to
go into the
hole I used a spade to dig the hole now
I’m going to use a
trowl for this
phase of the planting
now I want to look closely at the plant
I’m looking for the crown where the
plant and The Roots join up If This Were
a grafted be root Rose I need to look
for that bud Junction and make sure that
that is at or slightly below the
soil as long as all of the roots are
buried and a little bit of that m stem
too then we’re good to
go as I place the plant in the hole I’m
noticing that all of the main stems are
pointing in the same direction now for
many gardeners you would just stick it
in the hole and that would be good but I
want this growth to be directed towards
this post so I’m going to place it into
the hole with that in mind in the center
I’ve mounded up some of that
soil that I scraped in that will help
support the center of the plant just
below the crown and help hold it in
position and as I place it I’m looking
at the soil surface seeing where that
lines up and it looks like this is good
so I can go ahead and start filling
in the soil around this rose bush
as I fill I’m spreading out the roots
now if my hole wasn’t quite wide enough
no problem that’s where the TR comes in
I’ll just bury these roots spreading
them out as much as I
can so that they’re Fanning out in all
directions in this hole all firm in the
soil around the roots particularly on
the inside CU that’s where gaps are
probably going to develop if they’re
going to develop at
all and I’ll
just keep bringing the soil in and
covering up the
roots and this soil started pretty moist
but it’s not a bad idea to
periodically Add Water
while you’re filling the hole and allow
it to drain and fill in any of those air
pockets as you can see the actual
process of putting a plant in the hole
and then covering the roots with
soil is not
difficult it’s just understanding some
of that prep work that needs to be done
so that the hole is ready and the soil
is ready now if you hadn’t amended the
soil beforehand like I did as you’re
filling you can mix the soil and the
compost together and fill and mix at the
same time now this looks
like it is
level the crown is slightly below the
surface of the
soil and next is a very important step
we want to make sure that this area
stays moist until the plant comes out of
dorcy so I’ll Water to get more of the
draining water to fill in any gaps
around the
roots and then you start adding
mulch around the plant so that’s just
the beginning of the mtch I’m going to
add a a lot
more I want to cover all the soil in
this area with a nice
mulch 3 to 4 in
deep it still gets cold in this Colorado
Garden in fact it may drop below
freezing before this plant really starts
taking off this mulch not only helps
hold in the soil moisture but it helps
moderate the soil temperature so that on
those cold days the soil temperature is
staying relatively even and warm enough
for the roots to start growing with the
mulch in place now let’s water again to
soak
everything very well
now I had my hole ready to go and when
you get your bear root plants you want
to get them in the ground as quickly as
possible so what do you do if you don’t
have a hole ready or if the weather
isn’t good enough to put the bushes into
the ground well you can go ahead and pot
up your be root rose bushes to plant
later now I’ve just filled about 2/3 of
this big
pot with just a regular potting soil
mix one of these is not going to be
planted today I’m putting one plant here
one plant on the other side but the
location for this plant hasn’t been
prepared yet and it may be a while
before I get to it because I’m building
a structure that’s going to support this
Rose so same as before quick
inspection but instead of putting it
into a hole I’m going to put this
into this
pot tuck the roots
in then I’m going to cover the
roots with potting
soil this soil blend is pretty dry so as
I’m filling going to be adding
water I’m still concerned about where
the Crown is and where all the roots
are
so holding it in place holding the roots
in place I’m not as concerned about
Roots crisscrossing at this point
because this will be to plant later and
I’ll have access to the roots at that
time now
it’s
filling
compacting and
watering to get this all nice and
wet in very little time we have one
plant in the ground and one plant in a
pot and it won’t take any time at all to
get this in to the other hole my
nighttime temperatures right now are at
maybe slightly below freezing but
they’re warming I’m not worried about
these plants they will decide when to
break dorcy but if the night’s going to
get very cold below 28° fah a hard
freeze it will benefit these plants to
cover them overnight and help protect
them from potential damage especially if
they’ve started budding out for now just
going to keep this soil evenly moist on
a daily basis and wait for these rose
bushes to grow I’m Gardener Scott enjoy
gardening
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