The rose bush is one of the most known ornamental shrubs and with its help it is possible to issue any personal plot beautifully. This plant extremely hardy therefore it is much easier to look after them, than behind other species of roses – pletisty, standard and room.
Rose bushes – plants unpretentious, demanding leaving minimum, besides they are resistant to frequent changes of temperature and air humidity. These plants can be pleasing to the eye the blossoming up to the first frosts. To grow up rose bushes on the personal plot, it is necessary to know several simple, but important rules.
Features of landing, soil and correct watering
Rose bushes should be planted in the places protected from wind. These plants are very photophilous therefore for their landing, it is desirable to choose only solar places on the site. The soil for comfortable and stable development of plant has to be saturated with organic matters.
Sometimes the soil "is exhausted" because of frequent landing and change of other plants therefore that roses have well taken root and steadily developed, it can be "recovered", having added a little sand, compost and wood ashes. Considering that the rhizome of rose bush usually is located absolutely close from surface, in places of landing of this plant it is necessary to look after the earth periodically, clearing it of weeds and garbage. Is the key to magnificent blossoming of rose as well periodic scarification. Rose bushes are not especially exacting to watering therefore it makes sense to humidify intensively the soil only during the spring period. It is necessary to water roses only in the summer if necessary – if there is very hot weather and long there is no rain. Before approach of winter it is necessary to water roses very seldom not to provoke growth of new sprouts of plant which, as a rule, perish under snow.
Several recommendations about care for rose bushes
In order that rose bushes steadily developed, the plant needs to be cut. It is necessary to be engaged in undercutting already after a while after landing of sapling. So, if on the young and not strengthened yet plant buds were formed, then they need to be removed. Also during the spring period it is necessary to do cutting of the damaged and weak escapes, to delete the escapes having dark bark as unnatural color of bark of rose bush can be symptom of any disease. It is worth to remember also about scrap of the dried-up stalks. To protect roses from possible diseases, it is necessary to remove in time fallen leaves as at their rotting huge number of various pathogenic microorganisms is formed. Besides, plant it is necessary to feed up periodically, adding to soil around bush mineral fertilizers. Optimum fertilizers for rose bushes are potash, phosphoric and nitric.