Park Rose

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Park rose (lat. Rosa) - flowering plant belonging to the Rosaceae family. This name was given to these roses for their magnificent landscape view.

Description

Park roses look like rather wide and tall densely leafy bushes that require a lot of space. Their height often reaches one and a half meters. At the same time, the group of park roses includes not only decorative varieties of rose hips, but also moss and centifol roses bred in the distant sixteenth century.

Flowers growing in favorable conditions form luxurious bushes, in addition, they bloom and bear fruit very abundantly. They usually bloom at the end of May or with the onset of June, and the duration of their flowering is more than a month. All other varieties of roses usually bloom two to three weeks later than park roses.

Park roses are subdivided into blooming once and blooming again. The number of their varieties today exceeds ten thousand, and the color of their flowers can vary from white to rich dark purple.

Where grows

Park roses are most often found in Russia and in European territories. Such roses are planted both singly and in spectacular groups, and sometimes they form magnificent free-growing hedges.

Growing and caring

Standard roses, as well as climbing roses, should be planted in such a way that there is room around them for their further laying under winter shelters. However, not all varieties of park roses need winter shelter - in French and English parks, luxurious flowers do just fine without it. The Canadian varieties are also winter-hardy enough, so that they can also overwinter without shelter, but only if the groundwater is low, and the flowers grow in a sunny place, reliably protected from too strong winds, and receive proper care. But if you cover such flowers for the winter, they will bloom much more abundantly.

You should not plant strong-smelling plants in the immediate vicinity of park roses - they will interrupt the subtlest aroma of beautiful flowers. You do not need to be too zealous with dressing - an overabundance of various trace elements can have a depressing effect on roses.

Sometimes the so-called "blind" shoots appear on park roses, that is, shoots that do not give flowers. This can be either one of the characteristics of a number of older varieties, or the result of poor care. In the first case, in order to stimulate the laying of new flower buds, the shoots are laid on the ground and pinned. As for poor care, it is first important to determine what exactly it is expressed in: it may be a deficiency of potassium-phosphorus fertilizers, insufficient nutrition, or an illiterately chosen planting site, devoid of the sun.

Sometimes young shoots can be noticeably weakened by sucking pests - an infusion of nettle or a decoction of horsetail will be excellent preventive measures against such parasites (these funds perfectly strengthen the outer tissues of roses, which makes them more resistant to attacks of harmful insects). And from thrips spoiling rose petals, it is recommended to spray with cold water with the addition of pharmacy chamomile.

Formative pruning, which must be carried out annually, is considered one of the main conditions for the full growth of park roses, however, in the first couple of years after planting, young bushes are almost not pruned, but after this time it is important to try to form bushes in the form of rounded bowls, leaving only the strongest shoots. Spring pruning is usually done in mid-April when budding begins. And with the onset of August-September, it is recommended to stop cutting the shoots of roses - this is necessary in order for the beautiful flowers to winter better.