Delightful rose Crocus Rose - description and photo, features of care and growing
Roses are one of the most amazing flowers. Despite the fact that there are many varieties of them, breeders do not cease to breed new ones. All varieties of roses are beautiful, but some are simply of amazing beauty.
The recently emerged Crocus Rose rose has already gained popularity. She attracts attention with an unusual, lush bud of delicate color. Decorate your garden with a rose and it will certainly become your favorite.
Description
Rose Rose Crocus Rose belongs to the class of scrubs, a subgroup of English roses - park. This variety is semi-braided. It reaches 120 cm in height and 90 cm in width. Its leaves are semi-glossy and have a dark green color. Small flowers form in the brush. The bush is covered by them evenly.A feature of Crocus Rose roses is a gradual change in shade. The buds have a peach or apricot hue. When they open, the outer petals become almost white, only the middle does not lose its original color. Roses smell Crocus Rose richly, but not sharply. Crocus Rose is resistant to rain and low temperatures, so it feels good in central Russia.
Photo
Below you will see a photo of the flower:
Pros and cons of growing a flower
The advantage of this variety of park roses can be called the presence of chic full terry flowers. Not every kind of roses boasts decorative petals. in the bud. Crocus Rose combines the harmonious shape of a bush and cupped flowers, as well as continuous flowering. One minus - attributed to her disease resistance is not true.
Crocus Rose may well become infected with powdery mildew, so it must be treated with drugs.Origin history
The famous British breeder David Austin, a professional rose grower, founded his company in 1969 and began to develop new varieties. White rose Crocus Rose was introduced to the world in 2000. This variety was developed on the basis of the previously patented Golden Celebration variety. Rose was named after The Crocus Trust, a cancer foundation.
Garden design application
Rose bushes can decorate a mixborder, which is an elongated flower garden. Crocus rose can form the basis of a flower garden. It will look great on the background of the lawn, both in solitary form and in group landings. It can be used as a hedge.
How to grow?
In order for the Crocus Rose rose to grow well and bloom profusely, it is necessary to observe some conditions regarding proper cultivation and courtship.
- Location. Crocus Rose needs a sunny place for a rose, but she does not like the heat. Trees and bushes should not grow near it, because their stronger root system will drown out its roots. Also, the rose will not be enough nutrients. When choosing a place, it is necessary to consider groundwater. If they are close to the surface, then the flower planted here will quickly wither.
Rose Crocus Rose cannot be planted in the lowlands where the air stagnates. For it to grow normally, it needs good circulation, but it should not be a draft.
- The soil. For Crocus Rose roses, loamy and black soil with a moderate acidity of 6-6.5 is considered the best soil. With low acidity, you need to make peat or manure, high - wood ash.
- Landing. In this variety of low roses, the roots are quite deep. Therefore, a bush that is more than 6 years old cannot be transplanted. The flower can be planted in autumn and spring. But it is best to engage in planting in the autumn, then the bushes take root better, and will bloom in the spring. When planting in the fall, they immediately need to spud.
When planting a rose, it must be borne in mind that her bushes further grow.
- A pit for planting is dug with a depth of at least 70 cm.
- A 10 cm layer of drainage, for example, expanded clay, is laid at the bottom. Also, it must be poured humus, compost, if not, then fertilizer. However, it should be borne in mind that the roots should be 5-6 cm higher than fertilizers.
- Then sifted garden soil is poured. The roots of the flower 10-20 minutes before planting is immersed in the soil mash.
- After that, the bush is lowered into the pit, the neck should be 3 cm below ground level.
- Top with earth and abundantly watered.
- Top dressing. With regular fertilizer application, the bush will grow and bloom well. In spring, fertilizers containing nitrogen are applied, and summer - fertilizing with potassium and phosphorus.
- Watering. Watering this variety of roses should be moderate. Excessive moisture leads to drying of the stems. Watered once a week. In hot and dry weather after 3-4 days.
- Pruning. In the first year of life, it is necessary to prune the flowers before August, this leads to better rooting of the young bush. It is necessary to leave several flowers in the fall, then next year it will please with good flowering.
In spring and autumn, stalks are trimmed:
- old
- sick people;
- withered.
The pruning procedure helps shape the shape of the bush.
- Wintering. Rosa Crocus Rose withstands 29 degrees of frost, but still, when the temperature drops to -7 ° C, it is advised to cover it. The first thing to do is to spud up the roots, sprinkle them with sawdust or dry leaves, or cover with spruce branches. From above, build a frame, which is covered with a special insulation and a layer of film. With the advent of spring, the heater must be gradually turned away, so the flower will get used to the temperature change.
Breeding
Cuttings
To propagate crocus rose roses, you can use cuttings. For this:
- In the summer, during its flowering, cut off young shoots with flowers that need to be removed.
- Then divide the stalk into parts, each should have 2-3 sheets.
- Obliquely cut in the place where the lower kidney is located, make a direct cut slightly higher than the upper one.
- Before planting them, cuttings are immersed for half an hour with a solution of a growth stimulator.
- After that, they are planted in moist and loose soil, a little sand is poured on top.
- Cuttings are deepened by 2-2.5 cm, a plastic bottle is placed on top.
- You don’t need to water a month, just 2-3 times a day you need to spray.
- It takes a month to root. Then the bottles are cleaned, sprinkled with dry sand, and covered with spruce top.
- After a year, they can be transplanted to a permanent place.
Dividing the bush
The division of the bush is carried out in autumn or spring.. Dig a mother bush, the rhizome of which is divided into parts. They are planted in open ground. Next year they will bloom.
Offspring of roots
The root offspring of a rose Crocus Rose is aerial shoots that appear every year. Near them, they clean the ground, cut off the root connecting the shoot with the mother bush. After that, they land on a permanent place.
Root offspring for breeding should be taken those that grow from the mother bush at a distance of 1 m. In this case, the root system of the mother bush will receive fewer injuries.Diseases and Pests
Rose Crocus Rose is highly resistant to diseases and pestsexcept powdery mildew. This fungal disease rising from the ground affects:
- buds;
- shoots;
- leaves.
White plaque appears on them, after the spores mature, liquid droplets form. With severe damage, the buds and leaves curl and crumble. Shoots become crooked and do not grow.
Powdery mildew appears in summer after heavy rains. You can get rid of it if you remove and burn all the affected parts. The bush itself must be sprayed with one of these means:
- copper sulfate;
- foundationazole;
- phytosporin-M;
- thiovit Jet;
- colloidal sulfur.
For preventive purposes, the plant is sprayed with nettle infusion or broth of field horsetail. Sometimes harm to a park rose can bring:
- aphid;
- spider mite;
- descending sawfly.
You need to deal with them with the help of special drugs.
Mistakes in leaving
- If Crocus Rose is not properly looked after the park rose, then from it you can not wait for abundant growth and flowering. The wrong choice of the landing site can lead to this when the requirements of the flower are not taken into account.
- The formation of wild growth at the site of vaccination is caused by deepening when the bush is planted in the ground.If withered flowers are not cut from the branches, then the bush will begin to spend all its energy on preparing for winter, and not on the formation of flowers. Blooming roses Crocus Rose is reduced if you do not prune not flowering shoots.
- This flower loves water very much. Do not water only the surface of the earth. Water needs to soak the roots. For better watering, you need to make a hole around the bush, pour water there and fill it with earth. So the settled water saturates the root system well. Watering is best in the evening.
- An increase in green mass and a decrease in the number of buds leads to a violation of the timing of feeding, overfeeding with fertilizers. Rose Crocus Rose will not be enough nutrients if she is not warm enough. Therefore, the flower needs protection from the winds. For good growth and flowering, you can not neglect the timing of preparation for the winter - do not do it sooner or later.
Today a variety of park roses Crocus Rose is loved by many gardeners. Although when compared with others, he is quite moody. But during its existence, this rose proved to be the most tenacious and beautiful.