Agrotechnics For Growing Mini Roses On The Site

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Mini roses from pots took root on the site

Everyone has long known that a rose is always desirable in any garden, but it requires constant care and the presence of a caring hand. I was convinced of this from my own experience.

It was very tempting to grow roses on my site, and I bought seedlings in the Baltic States, more precisely - in Latvia. They have been cultivated there for a long time. My purchase was a burgundy hybrid tea rose, a climbing rose with pale pink flowers and a bush rose with small bright red flowers.

All these seedlings were planted on the site in compliance with all requirements and recommendations. They took root and then began to delight and surprise with their beauty and abundant flowering. The second growing season was marked by excellent development of all types of roses.

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And if on a climbing rose, still a young bush, in the first season there were huge fragrant pale pink flowers; there were only two flowers on the tea rose, and the bush rose became an elegant bush with a small amount of bright red flowers, then in the second summer two lashes up to one and a half meters long grew from the climbing rose, which were all in flowers; the tea rose was extraordinarily good, adorned with many flowers and buds, and the bush rose simply glowed due to the abundance of flowers.

The trouble happened in winter, in a harsh winter, when in the Tikhvin district of the Leningrad region frosts reached -30 ° С … -32 ° С. The shelter then did not sleep roses, but somehow it was unrealistic to insulate them, being 250 km from the garden.

All roses died, not only the aboveground part, but also the roots. I decided to repeat my experience, and again purchased seedlings, but only tea roses. Leaving for the city in mid-October and fearing losing my roses, I strengthened their protection for the winter. And in the spring, when I arrived at the site in May, I found that my roses were not frozen, but had come out. Unfortunately, I could not come to the site earlier and reveal the insulation.

For several years I only lived on the memories of those failures, switching to peonies, lilies, daylilies, echinacea and other perennials. However, the desire to see roses on my site did not leave me. And then I decided to breed miniature roses mix. Usually they are bought in flower shops and presented for holidays and birthdays. According to TB Popova's classification in her book "Roses and Hydrangeas in the North-West of Russia," miniature roses are referred to as patio roses, floribunda and flora in miniature form.

In the first growing season, and this was in 2008, from a pot in which there were four separate flowering branches of a type unknown to me, I created a whole clump of rose bushes. Since mini-roses in my house in the city appeared in bloom in March, by the time of my arrival in the village, and this was, as always, in early May, the roses had faded.

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With the hope of success, I planted them in the ground. Since that day, I have constantly watched their growth and development.

Two weeks later, it was already noticeable that the roses took root, as new shoots of red, like ordinary roses, had begun to grow. I also noticed the buds on these shoots, which opened in July and turned into flowers of a much larger size and changed color compared to the content in pots.

There they were 1.5-2 cm in size - red-haired with a pinkish tinge. Everything changed in the garden. These were no longer twigs, but bushes with flowers 6 cm in diameter. I removed the fading roses, thereby ensuring better development of the plantings and the buds on them. All summer until autumn they bloomed without interruption, and this was already a success.

The agrotechnics of growing mini-roses for me differed from that which is adopted for ordinary roses. There was no need for pits filled with organic matter and mineral fertilizers, which would provide them with food in the first growing season. For mini-roses, I applied a flower bed planting in a hole with humus, and also ensured regular feeding of seedlings with complex fertilizer during watering.

Fearing the threat of the last frost in May-June, at this time I covered the bushes with cut-off plastic bottles from under the water, and if required, then with a spunbond on top. From stress and to strengthen the immunity of plants, I sprayed them on the leaves with Epin and Zircon. The entire first season I was happy with the successful result of my experiment - my roses were blooming very beautifully.

In the fall, out of four bushes, I left two to winter in place, but first cut them to a height of 10 cm, spud them with compost and covered them with spruce branches. There are snowy winters in those places, and I also expected that the spruce branches would hold the snow in this place and prevent it from eroding. And in the spring it will not allow the crust to thicken when melting.

She transplanted the other two bushes into pots for safety reasons and took them to the city. There I watched them too.

I can say that these roses did not feel very well, they stretched out and, ultimately, died when I did not have time to water them in time. In the spring of 2009, I arrived in the village on my site with two pots of mini-roses of white and bright red color, which I bought in a supermarket. When buying, they had a tag with the inscription: Rose of Cordana Mix.

Having removed the winter shelter from the bushes that remained in the garden, I discovered to my joy that they were alive. I planted four brought bushes to them, and placed two in separate containers with compost soil. I protected them from bad weather by taking them to the greenhouse in which they grew up, and in June I took them out into the air. By this time, there were already several buds on them. In early July, they were supposed to open, but I noticed traces of powdery mildew on the leaves of these bushes. I had to treat them with phytosporin.

The bushes of the roses planted in the ground were smaller, but looked healthy and also had buds. Red-haired roses of last year's planting bloomed in June, and by July the buds of new flowers were kicked out. And another bush with a lone June flower turned into a profusely blooming specimen. The roses that I planted in the container also bloomed - bright red and white.

Of course, in my garden there is no riot of magnificent blooming lilies or huge flowers of peonies, dahlias. However, each flower is unique, each worthy of surprise and admiration. So these roses were very good too.

In August, all the bushes were in buds and flowers, and I never stopped photographing them. I also noticed that the bushes in the containers were not so fresh and lost the lower leaves, although the care and weather conditions were the same for everyone.

Apparently, breathing of their roots was difficult due to the limited volume of the container, so at the end of August I transplanted them into the ground. Thus, my mini roses have been blooming continuously for three months already, and their appearance was not greatly affected by bad weather.

The rose bushes that grew over the summer, acquired in 2009, turned out to be of the floribunda type, since they threw out branches with an amount from 6 to 16. The bushes were 60 cm high, the flowers themselves were large - 6-9 cm and bloomed for a long time, opening more and more and more. One detail is interesting: all the bushes below formed branches with a single flower, I used them for cutting, so as not to part with such beauty in the house.

Surprisingly, these cut roses stood for a very long time - two weeks, while maintaining a fresh look. For the winter at the end of September, I again cut off all the bushes (and the ones transplanted into the ground managed to take root), poured compost, covered them with spruce branches, and on top with spunbond. Now I will wait for spring and hope that all my pets will endure the hardships of this winter.