Rosa Sweetness, as if made of sweet mastic, delicately painted with a pastry chef on the edge in raspberry color. Its name Sweetness in translation from English means "sweetness". This beautiful variety has many advantages in order to take pride of place in the garden.
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Description of the variety and the nuances of growing
Sweetness variety belongs to tea-hybrid varieties. It was bred at the end of the last century in Germany on the basis of a park repair and tea roses.
Blooming flowers are amazingly beautiful. In shape, they resemble glasses. The lower part of the petals is painted in a delicate cream color, on top there is a raspberry fringing.
The bushes are lush, about a meter high, with strong, straight stems. This rose has almost no thorns, the leaves are dense and green, grow on stems with a dense mass.
Hybrid Tea Rose Sweet is perfect for cutting.
Its large flowers reach 10 cm in diameter, they stand in a bouquet for a long time, have a pleasant aroma.
A pink bush blooms in mid-summer for about a month. After a short break, flowering resumes. Rose is resistant to disease, in winter needs shelter.
Choosing Healthy Seedlings When Purchasing
It is advisable to buy rose seedlings with a closed root system in the nursery. Such plants more easily tolerate transportation, and take root well in a new place.
Only healthy specimens are selected, without spots on the leaves.
When buying seedlings with an open root system, pay attention to the roots, they must be well developed, healthy. If the roots are dried, the plant is soaked before planting for a day in water.
The rose of the Sweetness variety propagates only by grafting; its place can be seen with a careful look at the seedling.In plants planted in containers, the vaccination site cannot be considered, it is sprinkled with soil.
Planting roses in open ground
Choosing a healthy seedling is only half the battle; you still need to plant a rose correctly. The landing site is chosen protected from the wind and well-lit by the sun in the morning.
They plant roses in May, when the cold recedes, the weather is sunny and warm, and the soil warms up to +10 ° C. Autumn landing in September is also acceptable.
Before the onset of cold weather, young plants will have time to take root. In winter, an air-dry shelter is being built for them.
If several rose bushes are planted, a distance of 0.5-0.6 m is left between them. A landing pit is prepared in advance, filling it with fertile soil with neutral acidity.
The vaccination site is buried when planting 3-5 cm. Then the plants are watered, spud and shade from direct sunlight. If planting occurs in the spring, the shoots are cut off, leaving 3 buds on them. When the seedlings start growing, the shading is removed. Keep track of soil moisture.
How to care for flowers
For normal development, roses need light, water, fertilizing, protection from weeds, diseases and pests, regular pruning and shelter for the winter.
In summer, flowers are watered. at least 1 time per week. In spring and autumn - once every two weeks. If the summer is dry, do weekly sprinkling on a leaf to prevent spider mites. Around the bushes, the soil is covered with mulch.
They feed roses in April with nitrogen fertilizerurea, for example, at the end of May with complex mineral fertilizer for flowering plants and slurry. In June, when buds are formed, potassium-phosphorus fertilizers and grass infusions that ferment in the sun are introduced. After flowering begins, top dressing is stopped. They are renewed in August, giving the flowers the last time a complex fertilizer without nitrogen.
After summer flowering, faded buds are removed.. They are cut so that the seeds are not tied, and re-flowering has begun. Autumn flowers that bloom in late August and September can not be cut, setting the seeds at this time contributes to the ripening of shoots.
Prun in time, for roses it is very important. In the spring, cut off broken, sick and old, 3-4-year-old shoots. In summer, wild shoots growing from the root, blind shoots are removed. Before the onset of cold weather, the bushes are cut off, leaving stems 25 cm high. The roots are covered with a thick layer of earth or mulch, a frame shelter is built for the bushes, and covered with lutrasil (density 60 g per m2).
Wintering rose bushes open in April.immediately treated with fungicides for the prevention of diseases. From pests do insecticide treatment in late May.
Use in landscape design
Rosa Security is used to decorate the most noticeable, "ceremonial" parts of the garden. It is grown in flower beds along with other flowers. Delicate creamy pink buds go well with white and yellow lilies, blue bells and lavender.
Pink bushes look beautiful against the background of conifers and shrubs or in geometrically regular flower beds in the middle of a green lawn. You can plant Sweetness roses next to the gazebo, their fragrance and beautiful flowering will make a summer holiday in the garden unforgettable.
