Prepare your roses for the winter

Roses are a beautiful and fragrant flower and one of the more popular found in yards around the country. They come in all sizes and colors, some with tiny flowers and some with large thick blossoms. They can be small tea roses or larger climbing roses. Some are easier to maintain than others, especially when it comes to preparing them for our cold weather that we all know is just around the corner.

Too many of us, including me, don’t prepare our flower beds and other plants for winter as we should. I’ve had the opinion for years that if a plant can’t survive on its own then maybe it s...