Ground-cover roses and everything about caring for them

Ground-cover roses have their own characteristic features. They, in general, grow in sides, but not in height, their flowering is abundant and lasting, shoots have dense small foliage of dark or bright green color. Another important feature of these beauties is their frost resistance and resistance to diseases such as black spotting and powdery mildew.

Nobody can remain indifferent to ground-cover roses, their varieties are so magnificent and diverse that it is very difficult to single out the best of them.

There are low, rapidly growing flowers with escaping shoots. Their height does not exceed fifty centimeters. Representatives of such varieties are Avon, Snow Carpet. There are certain varieties of roses, having arched rigid shoots, slowly growing, reaching in height ninety-five centimeters. These include Ice Meillandecor, Red Blanket. The growing shoots and a height of up to one meter have varieties Max Graf, Heidekonigin. To large varieties, a height of more than one meter, is a drooping rose, which has arched shoots. This is a variety called Fiona. Roses are widely growing, with shoots growing upward, belong to the variety Fru Dagmar Histrup.

Before you start planting a plant, you need to prepare well the place chosen for them, make fertilizer. Soil must first be thoroughly digged and removed from the roots of weeds, otherwise it will be impossible to fight them after the growth of flowers. After the ground cover roses have been planted, they should be sprinkled around them with wood shavings or bark for a thickness of about three to five centimeters. If all the conditions of planting are observed correctly, then in two years a densely overgrown plant will win a complete victory over the weeds. And since these flowers are also quite resistant to diseases, their attractiveness will be ensured.

However, it is not enough to properly plant ground-cover roses, care must also be taken to the proper level. Here you need to have some knowledge, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain. Sprinkle roses with a morning, preferably warm water, directly under the bush. Young flowers are watered more often, so that they are well rooted. Adult shrubs in the hot season should be watered once or twice a week. If the rose does not receive enough moisture for it, the flowers will be small, and the period of their flowering will be much reduced. In autumn, watering should be reduced.

Ground-cover roses are fed twice during the growing season . The first time feeding is made in the early spring, after the appearance of the first leaves in two weeks. After the end of the month, you need to make a second one. It should be remembered that during the flowering period, fertilizers should not be applied. Flowers that have already wilted need to be removed if the rose did not. In autumn, as a fertilizer, only potassium fertilizers should be used to ensure that the shoots have matured well.

By winter, these plants can not be harbored, as they are good frost resistance, they feel fine under the snow and can not even drop leaves until spring. In the case of too harsh and snowless winter, the ground-covering roses can be slightly covered with lapnik.

In the spring, it is necessary to remove last year's leaves and cut the bushes. Strongly cut roses should not be. In the first year, pruning is done to stimulate tillering. In subsequent years, pruning is mostly sanitary in nature: broken and frozen shoots are removed, leaving only healthy branches. As necessary, the bush is thinned to ensure good illumination and ventilation of shoots.

The choice of a place for a future rose must be approached very responsibly. In advance, you need to know the maximum size of the plant, as well as the growth rate of the selected variety in order for the bush to fit perfectly into the space reserved for it.