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Park roses are always a decoration for any garden. The beauty and aristocracy of flowers amazes even the most fastidious skeptics. The variety of varieties allows you to create a variety of flower arrangements in the rose garden.
The height of such plants is no more than 1.5 meters. Flowering begins earlier than everyone else, around June 15th and continues for a month. Autumn plants are no less attractive due to the brightness of the leaves and fruits. But in order for park roses to delight the eye in the summer, caring for them in the fall and preparing for winter is the most important event that must be carried out wisely. This is what the conversation will be about.
Features of the autumn growing season
Beginning rose growers often make mistakes when planting the first plants on the site. The main mistake is that roses are not specially prepared for the winter; they believe that the plant is capable of preparing itself for winter and withstanding any cold. Of course, in the south this may be true, but in the risky farming zone, where roses are increasingly grown, this attitude is detrimental to park roses.
The reason lies in the fact that roses obtained through selection are currently cultivated. They cannot stop growing on their own even at low temperatures.Probably, many gardeners have noticed that rose bushes stand under the snow with leaves and buds.
As you yourself understand, in the middle latitudes of Russia such natural disasters are the norm. This means we need to make an effort and make our park beauty fall asleep. What needs to be done for this, what activities will have to be carried out, this will be discussed further.
Preparing park roses for winter
Experienced gardeners do not wait for the onset of autumn, but begin to prepare park rose bushes for winter at the end of summer.
Top dressing
In spring and early summer, the main nutrition of park roses was fertilizer containing nitrogen to stimulate the formation of new shoots and their growth. At the end of July, such fertilizing with nitrogen, saltpeter and manure is stopped, since one of the conditions for preparing park rose bushes for winter is the ripening of shoots. Therefore, in August, plants are fed with fertilizers containing potassium and fluorine.
We offer you recipes autumn fertilizing for park roses. The ingredients are dissolved in 10 liters of water. This solution is enough to nourish plants on 4 square meters. You can carry out not only root feeding, but also spraying of plants with the indicated compositions.
Recipe 1
For the first feeding (in August) during autumn care and preparation of park roses:
- 25 grams of superphosphate;
- 2.5 grams of boric acid;
- 10 grams of potassium sulfate.
Recipe 2
At the beginning of September, we will slightly change the composition of the feeding, take:
- superphosphate – 15 grams;
- potassium monophosphate – 15 grams.
Features of watering
With proper care, it is necessary to stop watering park rose bushes in early September. If this is not done, the plants will continue to grow without thinking about the upcoming rest. Unfortunately, weather conditions often interfere, as this is the rainy season. Therefore, experienced gardeners spread the film at an angle between the bushes so that water does not get under the plants. You can put arcs and cover them with the same film.
Trimming Features
To make park roses feel the approach of winter, their leaves are specially plucked off. This is a mandatory procedure. Although on large rose gardens it is not always possible to completely remove the leaves. But leaves with signs of disease must be torn off in any case to avoid an outbreak of disease after the roses open in the spring.
When the temperature drops to zero, park roses are pruned. Unripe, damaged shoots are cut out. The bush needs to be shortened by about 30% of its height. Particular attention is paid to small-flowered varieties. The places where the inflorescences were are removed from them, that is, the tips are cut off by no more than 10 cm. As for tall roses, they are cut off very much.
In autumn, in order not to stimulate the growing season, you should not cut off long stems with flowers.New shoots that appear must be constantly pinched, as they weaken the park rose and do not allow existing shoots to ripen. When pruned, roses become more resistant to low temperatures.
If roses produce buds in the fall (this happens in warm weather), then they need to be removed. But don’t cut it, just break it and leave it on the bush. In this case, the formation of new buds will stop, as well as the growth of unwanted side shoots.
Whitewashing and spraying
Another activity related to caring for plants in preparation for winter is whitewashing the stems. They are coated with special compounds that can be purchased in the store. Although this composition is also prepared at home. You will need white water-based paint and honey chloride oxide. For whitewashing use a paint brush. The solution is rubbed into the bark to close cracks and wounds. Whitewash height up to 30 cm.
To destroy possible pathogens and insects, rose bushes should be sprayed with a solution of iron sulfate or Bordeaux mixture when preparing for winter. When processing, you need to capture all the shoots, stems and soil around the rose bushes.
Hilling
After feeding, pruning and treating park roses for the winter, you need to take care of protecting the root system. The soil under the bushes is mulched and then hilled up. Peat, humus, and compost can be used as mulch. The height of the mound above the roots must be at least 30 cm. Please note that backfilling is carried out along the perimeter of the root system.
Covering roses for the winter
The trunks of park and standard roses are usually rigid and difficult to bend.But the conditions of central Russia do not allow the use of vertical shelter for rose bushes due to winds and frosts alternating with thaws.
The bending of roses is done gradually so as not to break the stem. For the operation to be successful, it is necessary to dig up the roots on one side and tilt the plant. To prevent them from returning to a vertical position again, the trunks are fixed with staples or the branches are tied, pressing them down with any available materials.
The channel presenter talks in detail about the autumn preparation of roses for winter, be sure to watch this video to the end:
Conclusion
As you can see, caring for park roses in autumn preparation for wintering, involves holding a large number of events. They take a lot of time. But you can’t do without it if you seriously decide to start growing roses. Only the right actions will allow plants to survive the harsh winter. But in the spring, park roses will thank you with beautiful and fragrant flowers.
