The undisputed queen of the garden, a magnificent rose, has millions of admirers, admiring her wondrous beauty and sophistication. Today, popularity is gaining a special method of growing it - a rose on the stem.
What does "rose on the stem" mean?
This presentation of the beauty of flowering is a trunk, in the upper part of which a rose is planted. Thus, its buds are located at a height and allow you to admire the gentle petals even from afar. Roses on the stem are used as an original decorative element in the garden or as an effective decoration of the paths .
The main difficulty in arranging such a beauty in your own garden is the inoculation of the rose onto the rose hips. The only suitable material for the rootstock is chosen with a variety of dogrose with flexible branches, a good root system and a good level of frost resistance. If we talk about the varieties of roses grafted onto the stem, then of the climbing groups are suitable White White, Excelsa, from the tea-hybrid group - Grand Mogul, Pharaoh, Morning of Moscow, from the floribunda - Nina Weibul ".
A graft of the rose on the stem is produced on a three-year-old seedlings of the dog rose. He cuts off all the shoots, leaving only one large and fairly even, the others are removed completely. Escape is fixed on the support. After a few years, the shoot will have a length of at least 2 m, it is on him that a rose is planted. Privovoj it is cut usually in July on the eve of inoculation: choose cuttings without flowers and good kidneys and put in a damp rag in a refrigerator. The most suitable kind of grafting is grafting, when the bud of the rose is placed under the bark of the stock.
If the process of grafting a rose onto a bar seems to be a difficult business, it's an excellent way to get a ready-made rose seedlings on the stem.
Features of grooming roses on the stem
Like any other representatives of the garden beauties, roses on the stem like watering and frequent loosening of the soil. They also need the removal of weeds and faded buds. In addition, roses on the stem require constant removal of wild shoots that occur below the point of inoculation. This is important enough that the vaccinated plant is not weakened and, in the end, did not die.
For stylized roses it is important to carry out not only the usual sanitary, but also forming pruning. If you do it right, you have a beautiful round crown. The procedure is performed in the spring. Only one-year-old branches are removed from cultivars. Growing young shoots need only a little shortening .. The roses of the floribunda cut the branches in such a way that they left at least five or seven kidneys. The same is true of tea-hybrid varieties.
By winter, the rose on the stem needs shelter from frost. To do this, the stem of the rootstock is bent to the ground, then gently fixed with wire. And the graft should be covered with foliage, spruce branches or non-woven material.