Winterizing and shipping my rose bush? Currently I live in Southern Michigan (Zone 5) and at the origination...

Currently I live in Southern Michigan (Zone 5) and at the origination of December will be moving to Everett, WA (Zone 7)
We have have a very mild dive, and due to a lot of duration changing events, I be not able to tend to my rosebush as all right as I would have like to. Because it was so mild, it is still flowering and have a lot of buds on it. It's getting colder presently, and I'm not sure how to winterize it. Currently it is in a pot on my front porch. It is a J&P Gemini tea rose that my sister give me for my birthday.


Since it is so late surrounded by the year, how do I go in the order of winterizing it now? Does anyone hold any suggestions on the best way to ship it to Washington (It's 5 foot tall!)?
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Answers:    Here's How:
Stop feed and pruning your roses around the end of August, to discourage tender, clean growth that will suffer from winter damage.

After the first frost, thoroughly hose down the soil around your rose bush. Once the ground freezes the bush has to embezzle care of itself, so administer it a good soaking going into winter.

Remove adjectives fallen leaves to prevent diseases and insects from overwintering.

After a couple of thorny freezes, mound 6-12 inches of compost around the crown of the plant, to protect the roots and the graft union where on earth the rose species you are growing is attached to a hardy root stock. The graft should be at or just below the soil surface. In a mild winter, you could also circle the rose near wire and stuff this shut within with leaves or mulch.

As for the transporting, I did a self-move from Kansas to California and what I did be dug a large root bubble area, placed it inside of four gummy trash bags put inside respectively other, and then covered the branch and limb nouns with a cheap plastic painter tarp and some duct tape to in safe hands it. I traveled all that course with it contained by the back of my truck and it arrived surrounded by perfect condition. Good Luck.