Disneyland Roses In Bloom (Still) - Mid-November 2025

Something strange has happened on a one of our large Disneyland Rose bushes on the side of our house:  they are blooming.  At least...a couple of blooms.  And this is after some hard frosts.  This 'large' one is one of the newly planted Disneyland Roses from earlier this Spring.  Here's a post from October that tries to show off the size of these.  They're MUCH bigger than the other ones I've had in the past.   

The photos below show a couple of blooms and if you look *behind* the blooms, you'll see some additional Floribunda Rose buds that are hanging around.  What the heck??  I'm attributing this to the little microclimate that exists along the side of our house.  These are tucked in against the house, with southern exposure and about fifteen-feet-away is our neighbor's house.  

Disneyland Rose in Bloom After A Frost

I didn't cut these off and I stopped pruning back anything on these roses since mid-October.  (I wrote about how I stopped dead-heading these both for flowers and to remove the hips here.)

Mid-November *has* to be the lastest I've seen blooms on these things, right?  Last year, by early December, the foliage had dropped completely and I was tucking them in for Winter.  Last year, I skipped the ring of Chicken Wire and using leaves for a blanket and instead used a mound of municipal biosolids.  This year, I'm thinking that I should use a blend of compost and biosolids.  I don't love how much moisture is in biosolids and how it freezes, so perhaps a blend will work a little bit better. 

That's a task that I need to complete in the coming weeks.  Along with 'extending' some beds with my 'lazy' method.  I'm going to get a roll of 36" wide craft paper from the orange Big Box store and use that to smother the turf instead of trying to piece together cardboard boxes.