How to decorate your site with climbing roses?
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Many of you, probably watching beautiful films, paid attention to how beautifully climbing roses bloom, looking from above at your sisters-roses, which bloom on the ground. If you also want to decorate your garden so that the roses bloom high, or you need something, then you just need to help them do it, it's not so hard. If you want roses to curl like an arch or something like a column, then you need to choose a type of rose that has flexible shoots that are also easy to bend.
Climbing rose varieties
The best such representative is the Alberic Barbier variety. The flowers of this rose reach a diameter of 8 cm and have a delicate apple scent. At first, the petals of this variety are dark yellow, and then creamy white. The next grade is Super Excels. In this variety, the petals have carmine-pink petals with white stripes in the middle, the flowers are small. Keep in mind that this variety blooms very profusely. The American Pillar rose has flowers 4 cm in diameter, raspberry pink with a white center. In inflorescences, you can count up to 20 flowers. But don't think that this is a record. Who is the record holder is the Garland of Roses. Despite the fact that the flowers of this variety are small, only 4 cm in diameter, in inflorescences, with abundant flowering, you can count up to 90 flowers that smell attractively of carnation. At first, the flowers have a pink tint, but then they turn white.
If you have an idea to decorate your walls, or maybe a fence, then we advise you to choose a variety that has thick shoots that do not bend well. For example, Candy Land. This variety has flowers with a diameter of about 10 cm, the petals have pink and creamy yellow stripes. It looks very impressive. The Night Owl variety will also surprise you when you see large, deep burgundy flowers. Also among the hybrid tea roses, Gloria Day may be suitable. She has large flowers, in the bud the flowers are greenish-yellow, then you can make out a light pinkish color, and after the petals are completely blooming, they acquire a bright pink color.
Growing climbing roses
Many novice summer residents, when they begin to tie a climbing rose, make one major mistake. They begin to direct the shoots vertically, thinking that in this way the plant was able to reach its maximum height as quickly as possible. And this is not correct. Then how is it right, you ask. Climbing roses bloom on lateral branches, which in turn extend from large shoots that run at the base of the bush. There will be much more such branches if you orient the main shoots horizontally or almost horizontally. If you direct it vertically, then they will grow straight up. Now, the support pillars should be braided with flexible lashes in a spiral, but the bush should be fanned out against the wall.
Rose care
If you take good care of it correctly and well, then over the summer the lashes at the roses can grow a couple of meters, or maybe more. In winter, such shoots must be preserved. And already in the spring, it is imperative to prune frozen, broken shoots, as well as the ends of very long ones. Trimming each climbing rose requires an individual approach. If you have a rose, let's say, old, then you need to remove old, unnecessary shoots so that the course does not look unkempt. If you have a young rose, then it should be cut to a minimum for at least a year or two, thereby giving you strength so that it can gain color.