Disneyland Roses - Leaf Mulch for Winter Protection - November 2020
Last month, I began to prep some parts of our yard for winter with the addition of chicken wire protection to keep the rabbits away from nibbling on the evergreens all Winter. I started with the Canadian Hemlocks and also wrapped our Weeping White Spruce columnar tree , too. In those posts, I mentioned that I was planning on trying to protect a couple of our Disneyland Roses using a similar technique - wrapping a ring of poultry netting around them - but this time, filling them with mass to protect from winter frosts. Below are a couple of photos that show the currents state of our two sideyard Disneyland roses. First, the eastern-most one. The chicken wire is wrapped around the rose and filled with mulched/chopped-up fall leaves to provide mulching protection. I also threw down wood chips around the bottom to keep critters from getting inside: The more western one - below - is the larger of the Disneyland roses. This one, too, was wrapped in chicken wire and mulched from the b