Climbing roses - a magnificent decoration of any country or garden site. Delightful shrubs delight with a variety of shapes and shades of inflorescences, bloom lushly all season and are able to mask the small errors of landscape design. But often they refuse to grow such flowers, fearing that the capricious climbing rose will not take root in the difficult Russian climate. In this sense, the Handel rose, climbing and quite cold-resistant, is a real find for summer residents. Why is this variety of roses so remarkable? How to grow such climbing roses for the Moscow region or areas with similar climatic conditions?
History and description of the variety
"Handel" - a rose-kliber, bred in the mid 60-ies of the last century in Ireland. The new variety got its name in honor of the famous classic - English and German composer G.F. Handel.
What does the Handel rose look like? The description of this variety can be easily found in the catalogs: an adult plant is a shrub, which is a fairly rigid long shoots covered with dark green leaves and goblet half-double flowers growing in inflorescences or individually. This variety is known as the world's first climbing rose, the inflorescences of which have a two-tone color of the petals: white-cream flowers with raspberry or saturated pink edges. With proper care, the Handel rose (climbing) grows to 3-3.5 m in height and is able to grow up to 2 m in width.
This variety has high frost resistance and shows an average level of immunity to various flora diseases. In addition, "hedel" is a rose of a repairing type, that is, it refers to plants that can continuously bloom several times a year. Due to all of the above qualities, this variety is actively used in landscape design for decorating arbors, arches, hedges, as well as to create an original garden decoration - flowering columns.
Breeding methods
Of course, the most reliable method to get a luxurious climbing rose to your site is to purchase a ready-made strong seedling in the store. But if for some reason you need to grow a rose from an adult plant, then what are the best ways to propagate a hedel shrub on your plot? The rose of this variety can be successfully grown in two known ways: by cuttings or by layering. You can use other methods, for example, grafting a different type of shrub to the finished bush, but they are more troublesome and not so reliable.
A seedling by the method of removing the shoot of an adult shrub is obtained in a rather simple way:
- Next to the chosen lower strong shoot of the rose, you will need to prepare a hole-deepening, pour a mixture of humus and sand there, and then place the shoot in the hole so that the upper bud is above the soil surface.
- Sprinkle the middle part of the shoot in the hole with soil. After this, the future seedling needs to be provided with regular watering, timely weed removal.
- In spring, the overwintered seedling should be carefully separated from the main bush and transplanted.
The most common method of propagation of roses, including climbing roses, is considered to be cuttings. The formation of seedlings from the cuttings is carried out in several stages:
- Cuttings should be cut from the middle part of the shoot, leaving at least 4-5 buds.
- Begin in mid-July. From an adult plant, it will be required to make short sections so that the upper part is cut straight, above the bud of the plant. The lower one is cut off under the kidney at an angle of approximately 45 °. This must be done with a sharp secateurs or other garden tools.
- Top sheets are neatly trimmed, bottom sheets are completely removed.
- Each stalk is planted in a pot filled with a mixture of soil and sand. Top you need to cover with a transparent cap (a small jar) and place the future seedling in an illuminated warm room.
- After the first small leaves appear, the caps can be removed. Before planting in open ground in spring, cuttings should be watered and fertilized with complex mineral fertilizers 1-2 times a month.
How to choose a suitable place on the site?
What conditions are required for the hedelian climbing shrub? Rose is a very thermophilic plant, sensitive to direct sunlight. Based on this, the place on the site where it is planned to plant a climbing rose should meet the following requirements:
- You can not plant a rose in a place where it will be daily under the scorching sun - this will lead to burns of leaves and "burnout" of the color of the petals. You will need to choose a place where the rose will be in the morning under the sun, and after dinner in the shade, be sure to be protected from the cold north wind and frequent drafts.
- Nearby, there must be a free place where the shrub can be laid and covered for the winter.
- You should think about the support of the plant in advance. For example, a gazebo or trellis basics are best set in advance. If you plan to plant a climbing rose near the building, the bush itself must be located at a distance of at least 1 meter from the nearest wall. This is necessary so that the root of the rose does not flood with rain water.
Preliminary ground preparation
Best of all, climbing roses take root in loose, fertile soil with low or neutral acidity. Therefore, before planting a plant, care must be taken to ensure that the soil meets these conditions: mix with compost or sand for loosening, and if necessary, reduce the acidity level by adding the right amount of dolomite flour or ash. Next, you will need:
- Prepare wells for planting. The distance between two holes for rowing should be at least 1 meter.
- Make a complex of mineral fertilizers or rotted manure.
- Place drainage at the bottom.
Landing
Before planting a rose in the country or in the garden, you need to determine what time is considered the most successful for transplanting into open soil. In the conditions of the southern regions, early autumn is considered a good time: before frosts, the plant manages to gain a foothold in the ground and let out new roots. For garden plots located to the north, it is recommended to plant this variety of roses in spring, at the beginning or in the middle of May, when all the leaves on the trees completely blossom. You should wait until the temperature is stable, stable, without sudden changes, and the soil warms up to at least 10 ° C.
It is necessary to carry out preliminary preparation of a climbing rose seedling:
- Trim secateurs to the aerial part of the bush (about 1/3 of the shoot).
- Carefully remove all weak, damaged, dry roots.
- Disinfect the root system by lowering it for 15-20 minutes in a weak pink solution of manganese and boiled water.
- It is important to prevent the roots from drying out before being placed in the ground. You can put the roots in wet sawdust or keep them in a clay mash solution for a short time (clay must be washed off before planting).
Planting in open soil after preparation of the plant is carried out as follows:
- The hole should be dug more than the volume of the root system of the rose bush.
- A small earthen mound is poured at the bottom of the hole, on the top of which a seedling is set so that the root neck is in the ground by at least 10-15 cm. The roots need to be straightened down the mound.
- Sprinkle the seedling with soil, lightly tamp and pour with cold water. Settled soil must be replenished.
- For the first few days, it is better to cover the seedling with garden foil, opening it for ventilation first no more than 15 minutes a day, gradually increasing this time for hardening the plant.
Care Features
What conditions does the climbing rose “hedel” require? Landing and care are not too complicated:
- Avoid flooding or drying out of the soil, water 1-2 times a week, in accordance with the weather.
- Fertilize with fertilizers. Before the flowering rose blossoms, while the shoots are growing and gaining strength, it will be necessary to fertilize at least 5-6 times. You can use for this rotted manure or a similar complex of mineral fertilizers. During the flowering period, it is not necessary to feed the plant.
- Treat with insecticides from pests, carry out prophylaxis with a solution of copper sulfate 3% from flora diseases.
- Pruning in a timely manner: not only in autumn and spring, but also, if necessary, to remove infected or dried branches.
- Within a year after planting a seedling, fertilizing with fertilizers is not needed. But an adult plant may not have enough nutrients from the soil. How to fertilize roses? In the spring, finally removing the winter shelter, it is necessary to spread around the shrub well-rotted cow or horse manure. Before the onset of autumn, roses will need to gain strength for wintering, so you should fertilize with potash fertilizers.
How to form a bush
The method of tying depends largely on what kind of support is grown on the site of the "hedel" rose. Responses of gardeners and recommendations of landscape designers allow us to highlight the following simple rules for garter shoots:
- It is quite simple to give a climbing rose the desired shape if you start to form a bush from the very beginning, while the overgrown shoots are still quite flexible.
- Rose shoots are best tied in a horizontal direction - this will allow inflorescences to grow evenly along the entire length of the bush. For decorating a wall or hedge, it is best to tie the branches in a fan pattern; for a vertical free-standing support, the shoots can be twisted in a spiral.
- For fastening, you should choose a non-traumatic material, for example, synthetic twine. Metal staples or wire can damage shrub branches.
- The most spectacularly gentle hendel inflorescences look on a support of white or any light shades.
Pruning
Pruning should be done regularly and in a timely manner, using well-sharpened garden tools. Periodic pruning throughout the garden season is carried out if you need to remove the damaged, diseased or dried part of the rose bush. It is necessary to cut off all faded shoots of the plant in order to allow new branches to form and to protect the climbing rose from diseases. All slices are made diagonally, at an angle of about 45 °. The entire trimming procedure should only be carried out in dry weather with clean and dry tools.
In autumn, pruning is necessary before preserving the plant for the winter. Required:
- Shorten all branches of the plant by about 1/3.
- Remove all damaged, old, dry shoots.
- Cut unripe shoots.
In the spring, after the final removal of the covering layers, it is also necessary to trim: remove the blackened, frostbitten, dry and broken branches.
Important! After trimming, the tools must be washed in a disinfectant solution of manganese or hydrogen peroxide and dried thoroughly.
Preparing a climbing rose for wintering
Despite the fact that the Handel variety is declared as cold-resistant, this climbing rose also needs to be sheltered for the winter. This must be done in dry weather in the absence of strong wind:
- Pre-prune, preferably cut off all leaves. Remove all cut material.
- Hulled earth, mulch peat. The surface of the earth on which the rose will winter, lay out with a “litter” - dry leaves or spruce branches.
- Carefully remove the branches from the support and lay on the “litter”.
- Tie all weaving branches with twine.
- Top with sawdust or spruce branches.
- Wrap carefully with garden wrap or other covering material. Between the ground and the covering layers, it is imperative to leave an air gap. For example, lay out the film on garden arches.
How to open roses after winter
It will be useful to recall that reliably sheltering a climbing rose for a successful wintering is only half the battle. An important condition under which the Handel will delight for many years with a strong shrub and lush flowering is to properly open the overwintered roses in the spring. How and when to do it?
- It is not recommended to keep the rose until late spring: without the sun and airing, the branches and roots will begin to rot.
- Shelter should be removed depending on specific weather conditions. It is best to open the roses gradually, first removing the upper layers (lapnik, branches) in early to mid-March. The top layer of the covering material can be removed when the stable air temperature is not lower than 10 ° C. At the same time, you can begin to air the roses, raising the lower shelter for 10-15 minutes a day.
- Depending on the weather, you can finally remove the shelter in the middle - end of May. You need to do this on a cloudy, but not rainy day. Roses should be opened when the night temperature is stably above -2 ˚.
- After the final disclosure, pruning and top dressing with organic fertilizers should be carried out. Before fertilizing roses in spring, you should saturate the rhizome with oxygen. To do this, carefully dig the ground with a pitchfork next to the rose bush.
As is clear from the foregoing, growing a climbing rose, even adapted for a cold climate, will require special care. The reward for the troubles will be a real masterpiece of landscape floristry - a delightful plant that flourishes lushly throughout the season.