Roses in landscape design
Beautiful roses often play a major role in landscape design. These flowers can be used to grow amazing compositions in parks, gardens, rose gardens, and rockeries. They decorate gazebos, fences, walls of buildings, arches. They are grown on scrubs, trellises, pergolas, and planted near borders.
Ground cover roses on the site
The imagination of flower growers and designers is truly limitless. But they must always remember the needs of the plant and strictly maintain the required distance between rose bushes when planting. It depends on the size and characteristics of the flower variety.
Planting is most often carried out in the spring, so by this time you need to know exactly the specifics of the plants intended for the composition.
Hedge covered with roses
Attention! With proper care, roses will become a magnificent decoration for even the most inconspicuous summer cottage.
A variety of roses according to external characteristics and cultivation characteristics
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Roses are very diverse. There are many species, types, and varieties of these beautiful flowers.
Biologists and gardeners distinguish several main groups:
- Polyanthas are low, dense bushes without thorns with many small flowers. Flowering continues until frost.
- Park varieties are ancient ornamental varieties that bloom early, but not for long. Winter-hardy, have a very strong aroma.
- Garden - old varieties of white or pale pink flowers.
- Remontant - large and fragrant buds, bloom several times a year.
- Hybrid tea is a hybrid of remontant and Chinese tea roses. They bloom long and luxuriantly. They are thermophilic and need shelter for the winter.
- Ground cover - shrubs with long creeping shoots. They bloom long and luxuriantly.
- Floribundas are tall bushes with large flowers. They appeared as a result of crossing polyanthus and hybrid tea varieties. They bloom profusely, long and continuously. Faded buds fall off, and young petals appear in their place.
- Grandiflora - appeared after crossing hybrid teas and floribundas. The flowers are large in size, bloom long and luxuriantly.
- Miniature - small garden varieties. They grow up to 40 cm in height. Double flowers can appear from spring to late autumn.
- Climbing - fast-growing creeping shoots with small flowers collected in large inflorescences. Related species are semi-climbing and climbing.
- Shrubs are tall shrubs that bloom once a year.
Rose bushes in a flowerbed
When is the best time to plant
Roses can be planted in two periods: spring and autumn. In the conditions of central Russia, it is safer (according to experts) to plant in the spring.
But provided that the soil warms up to +10-12° C and before the buds begin to open.
As a rule, this is mid-April to the second ten days of May.
- Ideally, root-capable seedlings are taken in containers. Plant them only in the spring by transferring an earthen clod. For many varieties of roses, only spring planting is acceptable (ask about this nuance when purchasing shoots).
But planting roses in spring has its drawbacks. Such roses may be stunted in growth (compared to autumn seedlings). This lag is approximately two weeks.
Also, such queens are more capricious and require more supervision and care.
It is better to plan autumn planting of roses for mid-September to mid-October.
If the timing of the event is postponed, the roses will not have time to get stronger before the first frost. It is very important that the plant buds have not yet begun to develop.
- 10-12 days after autumn planting, roses form small young roots, which manage to gain strength before frost and feel great in a dry shelter until spring. In spring, young plants very quickly begin to form a strong, healthy bush.
If you don’t have time to plant in the fall and don’t want the seedlings to disappear, you can try to save them until spring by burying them.
To do this, shorten the stems and trim the roots to 30 cm. In this case, callus forms on the roots (a callus that appears at the site of the wound). Healthy roots will develop from the callus in the spring.
Rules for planting roses in open ground, what distance should be between bushes
The distance between roses when planting in the ground depends on several factors:
- bush growth;
- features of caring for it;
- the specifics of the place chosen for planting (is it well lit by the sun, how fertile is the soil, etc.).
How to plant roses in open ground in summer
Landscape compositions must be compiled in accordance with the types and varieties of flowers. In landscape design, the distance between roses plays an important role. When flowers are crowded, they lack air and nutrients, and infections spread at lightning speed.
For reference! All roses love plenty of light and fertile, moist soil, but do not tolerate drafts and lack of nutrients.
Ground cover roses
Among the ground cover varieties there are creeping, weeping and erect varieties. Their bushes are very dense, but grow at different rates. You can decorate a terrace, gazebo, wall of a house with ground cover flowers, or make a flower bed from them.
To grow a dense carpet of flowers, leave 60–80 cm between plants. Tall and weeping roses are planted at a distance equal to half their height. Spreading low bushes can be planted at a distance of 40–60 cm from each other.
The distance between creeping rose bushes depends on the growth rate of the shoots. The faster the branches grow, the farther the bushes should be from each other. Therefore, 1 meter is left between vigorously growing ones, and 40–60 cm between weakly growing ones.
Climbing and climbing roses
Climbing roses for wall decoration
A hedge of flowers looks very beautiful. The walls of the house and gazebos, fences and arches can be decorated with climbing plants. Climbing and climbing roses look especially luxurious. Their shoots grow quickly and wrap themselves around the objects on which they are attached.
Semi-climbing and climbing varieties have long branches (1.5–5 m), capable of hanging from a support or spreading along the ground. Climbing shoots are even longer - up to 5–15 m. They grow more intensively. It is advisable to plant both of these species in groups near supports or branches of large trees.
To decorate the wall of a gazebo or arch, one bush of climbing or climbing rose is enough. To create a hedge, you can plant 4-5 bushes. An interval of 3–5 meters should be left between vigorously growing varieties, and 2 m between weakly growing varieties.
Shrub roses
Floribunda, grandiflora, park, hybrid tea, polyantha species, as well as some varieties of ground cover and climbing flowers are most often grown as bush flowers.
When growing single bushes, you need to leave 3 meters between them. If a gardener wants to plant a hedge, then the distance between the rose bushes should be equal to half their height.
Shrub roses look very impressive
For example, all rose bushes in a hedge will grow to 2 m, then leave 1 m between them.
Flowerbed roses
Flowerbeds include polyanthus and hybrid tea species, as well as floribunda. These flowers can be grown in small groups in a flower bed.
Depending on the intensity of shoot growth, flowerbed varieties are divided into two large groups. Strongly growing varieties should be planted at a distance of 40–60 cm from each other, and weakly growing ones – at 30–40 cm.
For reference! You can plant other flowers and small shrubs next to them.
Standard, cascading roses
Standard and cascade roses are grown using grafting. A cutting of a climbing or miniature rose is grafted onto a strong rosehip trunk 40–90 cm high.
Cascade varieties differ from standard varieties in that a cutting of a climbing or ground cover rose with long curly shoots hanging down is grafted onto a standard 140 cm high. Some gardeners use hybrid tea varieties and floribunda.
It is advisable to plant standard and cascade varieties individually and not in groups. If the grower decides to grow them in rows, then a distance of 3 meters must be maintained between standard flowers, and 3-5 meters between cascading flowers.
Rose bush in the form of a trunk
Attention! Herbaceous or coniferous plants look beautiful next to these flowers.
Diseases and pests
Park roses have fairly high immunity and rarely suffer from diseases. But if planting is unsuccessful or with insufficient care, some infections can cause harm to them. In particular, the following are dangerous for culture:
- powdery mildew - the fungus covers the leaves of the plant with a whitish dry coating;
Powdery mildew develops in rainy, cold weather - black spotting - black-brown spots appear on the plates, over time they grow, and the bush begins to dry out;
Black spot appears on the bush closer to July - rust - the fungus is easily recognized by the reddish growths on the stems and leaves.
Rust affects the plant due to improper care and excessive watering in cloudy weather.
The fight against park rose diseases is carried out using copper sulfate and Bordeaux mixture, as well as the drug Fitosporin. To prevent illnesses, it is enough to control the volume of watering and prevent thickening.
Sometimes parasites cause damage to shrubs. Among them are:
- spider mite - the insect entangles the stems and leaves of the crop with a cobweb in dry weather;
Spider mites interfere with plant photosynthesis and feed on leaf juices - aphids - a parasite that infects bushes en masse at the beginning of summer and quickly eats up the blades;
Leaves and buds begin to become deformed when infested with aphids. - pennitsa - the insect feeds on the leaves of the plant and leaves behind characteristic whitish traces.
Pennytail usually appears on rose bushes in May and June
Most pests can be dealt with in the early stages using a soap solution or garlic infusion. In case of serious lesions, insecticides are used for spraying as part of care - Actellik, Aktaru, Iskra and others.
The universal rule for distance between roses
When is the best time to plant roses in open ground?
There is no universal rule to help you calculate at what distance to plant roses. It all depends on the size of the bush and the features of caring for it.
Growing roses on supports
It often happens that a rose bush grows from a seedling much larger than expected. Therefore, it is advisable to leave more free space. There should be enough space so that you can bend the bush to the ground and cover it for the winter. In other words, the distance between rose bushes should correspond to their height.
Important! If the roses become too crowded, the bushes need to be planted further away.
Crowding will destroy any plants, so they must be planted at a sufficient distance from each other. The length of these gaps may vary depending on the size of the bush and the growth rate of its branches.
