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When Should You Plant Bare-Root Roses?

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We don't have a source-verified planting-window pattern for roses yet — rather than apply a generic annual-vegetable schedule (which may not fit how this plant is actually started), we're showing honest guidance instead.

Last frost (typ.)
May 5
Status
Window not yet sourced

Roses are cold-tolerant, so an early planting is usually safe, but we don't have a plant-level sourced day-offset for this crop, so we won't compute a specific window — plants sold as nursery stock (bare-root, potted, or divisions) also often follow a different schedule than seed-started annuals, and we don't want to guess which applies here.

Calculated result · 3 verified sources · Checked 2026-07-18 · How we decide

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Why

Check with a local nursery or your county extension office for the right planting window for this specific plant in your area.

  • Every date on GardenSays is sourced or labeled an estimate — without a plant-level day-offset source, we show honest guidance instead of a guessed window.

When this doesn't apply

  • A hardy woody shrub. Bare-root roses are planted dormant — late autumn at leaf fall, or late winter to early spring before growth resumes (never when the ground is frozen). This is a dormancy-based window, not a frost-relative annual-planting figure, so no numeric day offset is shown.

How this was calculated

  1. 1. Last spring frostMay 5Source guidance

    Minneapolis, MN: typical (50% probability) last 32°F frost

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