Truly refined and beautiful flowerbeds of English Heritage roses have rightfully earned the recognition of many gardeners, and for several decades have been pleasing to look at different continents.
Rosa Heritage - the story of creation
Rose Heritage, also known as "English Heritage", "AUSblush", "Roberta", was bred by D. Austin in 1984.
It is characterized by abundant flowering, resistance to temperatures and pests, as well as an incomparable delicate aroma with notes of fruit, honey and myrrh.
Large, up to 11 cm, dense, soft pink flowers, consisting of about 70 petals, have a cup shape. The bushes themselves are quite dense and compact, capable of reaching a height of 1.5 meters and a width of more than a meter. The leaves are dark green, large enough, but do not burden the silhouette of the bush.
English roses - decoration of any garden
Young shoots are constantly growing from the base, maintaining the shape and size of the bush. Classical bends of shoots for this variety are manifested due to the weight of the buds, which are able to blossom not only at the top, but also at the bottom of the bush.
The main advantages include the following:
- plentiful, multiple flowering per season;
- shade resistance, moisture resistance;
- strong delicate aroma;
- uniform distribution of flowers throughout the bush;
- sufficient unpretentiousness.
Important! There are only a few drawbacks: it is instability to heat and weak immunity from various diseases, as well as a negative attitude to rains - buds are not opened and often die. It is also worth noting that the second flowering is much weaker than the first.
In landscape design, the Heritage rose can be used both as a center of composition, planting in single bushes, and as a flower design, planting in groups of three bushes. Due to the presence of climbing species, this variety can also be located near fences, arbors and fences.
Outdoor flower cultivation
For planting, it is optimal to choose seedlings - they can be purchased both in nurseries and from breeders, or prepared independently. Depending on the planned landing site, it is necessary to choose the most optimal varieties - undersized or weaving, classic or tall.
The choice of landing place must meet several requirements:
- sufficient light with partial shade;
- the place should not be in a draft and be strongly purged;
- Do not plant Heritage roses in lowlands and places of stagnation of water.
Important! It is necessary to avoid the planting of new bushes in the place of growth of the old.
Landing can be done both in spring from mid-April to mid-May, and in autumn, from early September to mid-October, in previously deeply dug up land. Roses of this variety prefer neutral soils, with an allowable slight deviation to the acid or alkaline side.
Loamy or light clay soils are optimal, but other types of soils can be prepared for planting: sand, compost or humus are added to heavy soils, and turfy soil and organic fertilizers are added to sandy soils.
The extraordinary beauty of flowers attracts the eye
Landing procedure
During autumn planting or transplanting, all leaves are removed from the seedling and shortened shoots to 8 buds; this is not required in spring.
- A talker is prepared from water, clay and manure in a ratio of 10: 3: 3, to which a growth stimulator is added.
- The landing pit should be about 40 by 40 cm in size, with a depth proportional to the size of the root system - from 30 to 50 cm.
- It is necessary to add garden soil, sand, clay, peat and humus into the pit in a ratio of 2: 1: 1: 1: 1, with the addition of superphosphate, bone and dolomite flour, and then shed a recess with the contents of water.
- While the water is absorbed, the roots are dipped in a clay mash.
- The seedling is set in a pit with straightened roots, while the border of the stock should be below the ground level by at least 7 cm.
- The roots are covered with earth with its compaction, in order to avoid the appearance of voids.
- The planted bush is shed with water, and then, after its absorption, they are spudded to a height of about 10 cm.
Plant care
Depending on the type of Heritage roses, a different amount of watering is provided: 5 liters are enough for ordinary varieties, and 15 for curly varieties. The plant does not like excessive humidity, but the drought is fatal for it, so watering is carried out as the soil dries, on average 5-7 times days, in the evenings, to the basal zone. It is necessary to stop watering by the end of August, but if the summer was full of rains, then in late July.
It is necessary to feed roses several times a season: in the spring, before the beginning of active flowering, the introduction of nitrogenous fertilizers is necessary. During flowering, organic and complex fertilizers are optimal, and before leaving in winter, potash and phosphorus fertilizers are added to the soil.
Important! In the first year after planting, you can not feed, and from the second year you can not skip them.
Good results are given by feeding with bird droppings or mullein in the form of infusions on water in a ratio of 1:20 and 1:10, respectively.
One of the beneficial rules of care is mulching the soil with peat, with a layer of about 8 cm.
Proper shelter of bushes will allow them to bloom for many years.
Pruning and wintering
Rosa Heritage needs constant pruning. So, young bushes, after they get stronger, thin out, leaving only 3-4 of the strongest shoots. To increase the size of future flowers, the shoots are shortened exactly in half, and to increase the number of flowers by one third.
However, this does not apply to climbing species - they are shortened by no more than a fifth.
Important! All pruning is done before the buds open, often this is the month of April. All damaged and weak shoots are removed, and lignified shoots are removed completely every 4-5 years.
For the winter, bushes begin to cook at the end of October - they are thoroughly sprinkled with sand. At the first frosts, the leaves and buds are removed from the roses, the stems are bent to the ground, and then they provide an overhead shelter that does not come into contact with plants: a greenhouse film or non-woven material is installed on the frame.
Flowering roses
The English beauty blossoms from June to October with several main waves, but visually it may look like continuous flowering over the entire surface of the bush.
Special care during this period is not required - it is only important to remove faded buds in a timely manner and to fertilize the soil.
This bush can not bloom for several main reasons: it is either an excess of moisture, or its lack, which is solved by changing the irrigation, or the wrong place for planting, which is decided, respectively, by replanting the bush.
Flower propagation
Roses are characterized by propagation by cuttings, which is performed after the buds bloom during the entire flowering period. An important criterion is mature kidneys: dense, not dry and not shallow formations fit this description.
Important! After removal of the faded buds, the shoot is cut off on two sides from three good buds: on top of the first internode, and below - at a short distance from the last bud.
Almost all leaves are removed, the lower section is treated with a root system growth stimulator and the stem is set in a container with a moist substrate. This design is covered with a film or glass, avoiding contact with the shoot, and then it remains to wait for rooting, which occurs after about a month at a temperature of 18 to 22 degrees.
Delicate English roses are unstable to many diseases
Diseases and Pests
The stem roses, to which Heritej belongs, despite their sufficient stability, very quickly pick up various diseases.
The main threats are powdery mildew, black spotting, gray rot, rust, and viral mosaic. To cope with such diseases, the removal of infected areas with the subsequent destruction and treatment of plants with special solutions will help.
It is possible to prevent the occurrence of diseases if you provide sufficient sparseness of the bushes, and also do not exceed the permissible humidity of the soil and air.
Despite the seemingly difficult care, Heritage roses are a real gem of any garden, striking in its beauty and extraterrestrial aroma. If you carefully follow the growing instructions, then even beginner gardeners will not have difficulties.
