Roses in the garden.
Rose - the joy of Aphrodite
Rose - a musical favorite flower ...
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Rose - the real queen of flowers. She was worshiped, loved and glorified from time immemorial. However, she was going through its ups and downs. Take at least 70 years of shortsighted XX-century. Rosa was deemed unfashionable, expelled from the flower beds or 90-s - from roses refused because of the complexity of caring for her. Now the situation has changed, now rose a full-fledged queen flower bed and no one disputes its decorative qualities.
A person coming into contact with the world of beautiful roses, no longer able to refuse further from them in his garden. This is not about visiting the Rosary, the botanical garden or a garden of your friend. I'm talking about growing roses - this complex and fascinating process. Landing, shelter, disclosure of the bushes after the winter, the first buds, turning them into luxurious rose bushes!
The man, who had just started to grow roses there is a lot of questions. First of all, where and how to place roses? For Rose important high Agrotechnical background, ie they must be on a sunny, uncovered, ventilated place, in the fertile and fresh soil.
How best to plant roses? Make a classic rose garden, consisting of various types and varieties of roses - now that the traditional version receded into the background.
Modern solution - the deployment of roses in mixborders. There may be multiple options: a combination of roses and other ornamental plants, they lay pergolas, they climb trees, growing among the perennials, ground cover plants can be as great trunks serve as focal point.
Roses in mixborders perfectly match with many plants. We must remember the following: the timing of flowering, plant height and suitable environment. Perennials, bulbs, shrubs and even trees help create mixborders continuous flowering. Besides creating these flower beds, we share the roses, and therefore, preventing the spread of various diseases.
The art of mixborders.
We strive for continuous bloom in mixborders from early April until frost, for this help people rannetsvetuschie crocuses, snowdrops, hianadoksy, irises mesh between the bushes of roses. For late spring flowering hyacinths and add perennials. Last disguise unsightly bare legs rose bushes in the spring. Pink flowers, while among the other perennials that are supported in the background of large shrubs or small trees, will have a completely different view, more attractive and decorative.
Must choose the right color combinations. For beginners florist's better to avoid the scarlet and bright orange flowers that are quite difficult to combine.
It is better to try to start the white, pink, yellow and purple. They are easier to write on mixborders. Do not forget to punctuate your planting white flowers, they always make the transition from one color to another Bole harmonious.
Many perennials can be used as a companion Rose. If we talk about color, blue flowers combine beautifully with all roses, regardless of their color. They soften the richness of dark-red and reddish-purple roses and distinguish white, emphasizing their color.
High Delphiniums perfectly match the OS all the colors of roses from white to crimson. Delphiniums purple suit with yellow roses.
Blue geraniums, such as meadow geranium "Jonson's Blue" (Geranium pretense "Jonson's Blue"), Himalayan geranium (Geranium himalayense), geranium excellent (Geranium magnificum) look excellent, urging the rose bushes. Rosemary Verey, the English designer, considered the most successful satellite geranium rose. They bloom from June to July, and if you remove the faded flowers bloom in autumn.
High dairy-flowering bluebells (Campanula lactifolia) looks nice with pletistymi roses. Their stems are rushing up to meet a drop-down flowers pletistyh roses.
In the autumn bloom in mixborders support aconite. You can recommend a joint landing high-grade delphinium and osennetsvetuschih aconite. Looks great with roses and such plants as Echinops sharogolovye (Ehonops spherocephalum), feverweed alpine and flat (Eringium alpinum, Eringium planum).
Using a variety pletistyh roses in a pink palette for decoration tunnel or pergolas can combine them with purple varieties of clematis. The effect is always very impressive.
Another color that comes to all without exception, plants are silver. Perennials and annuals in light gray very suitable rosebushes. For example, chistets Byzantine (Stachys byzantina), yaskolka tomentosa (Cirastium tomentosum), Maritime tsinenariya (Cineraria marintina). Chistets looks very elegant with its small purple flowers on the upright peduncles.
The successful combination of narrow-leaved lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) with rose bushes, and the smell of lavender roses perfectly complements flavor. In the foreground of a border can be placed carnations grayish-blue (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) and alpine (Dianthus alpinus).
Macleay small-fruited "Kelway's Coral Plume" (Macleya microcarpa "Kelway's Coral Plume") is great for background mixborders. Extremely decorative and its combination with a peach-colored roses. Excellent structural plant with silvery leaves - lihnes crown (Lichnis coronaria) had little flowers in the form of magenta-colored carnations, which are strangely harmonious approach to all options for combinations with roses. This Biennial, but it is easy osevaetsya himself. I would like to mention another, combined with such plants as thistles (Onopordum), which is often used in English gardens in the background border. High plant-thorn makes it even more defenseless and fragile magnificent rose beside him.
Shrubs with variegated foliage are a good backdrop for roses. Bright red landscape rose "La Sevillliana" looks good on white background Derain "Elegantissima" (Cornus alba "Elegantissima").
However, almost all shrubs with white flowers suitable as companions roses: spiraea, chubushniki, cinquefoil, Cherry Kuril Islands and others, besides, they bloom in the spring than enliven the curb at this time.
Roses red and purple hues or bright reds wonderfully blend with a soft cuff (Alchemilla mollis) and its varieties muting color intensity.
Most yellow roses look great when they are lined with plants with purple foliage, such as: geyhery: geyhera small-fruited (Heuchera micrantha "Palace Purple"), geyhery hybrid (Heuchera X "Plum Pudding", "Rachel", "Obsidian"), Lobelia hybrid "Russian Princess" (Lobelia X "Russian Princess").
Purple foliage goes well with orange roses. In mixborders may include some types of barberry, depending on the growth, finding them a place. For example, barberry Tunberg "Red Lady" (Berberis thunbergii "Red Lady") is perfectly combined in the mix with the English rose, Austin "Lady Emma Hamiltom", etc. Do not forget to prophylactically treat barberry from powdery mildew.
Another important point - in compiling mixborders should combine different forms of plants. For example, to the rose bush plants suitable rounded, covering the legs (for example, geranium krupnokornevischnaya, meadow, etc.)
Do not forget about the combined forms of plants and flowers themselves. With a rounded flower roses go well with prickly Echinops and feverweed, vertical "spikes" like delphinium, aconite, bearded iris (Iris germanica), koloskovidnogo Liatris (Liatris spicata), loosestrife ivolistnogo (Lithrum salicaria), «Horizontal - yarrow (Achilea ) and stonecrop (Sedum), «panicle" - astilby (Astilba) and Volzhanka (Aruncus), «Haze" - Fennel (Foeniculum), gypsophila paniculata (Gipsophila paniculata), yarrow ptarmika (Achilea ptarmica), «Daisy" - gelenium ( Helenium automnale), Monarda (Monarda didima), echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)
Do not forget the classic companion Rose - sage. For each part of the mix suits your look. To the front - sage forest "Mainacht" (Salvia nemorosa "Mainacht"), as a background plant suitable sage whorled "Purple Rain" (Salvia verticillata "Purple Rain").
Great roses look with grasses. A combination of roses, reedgrass ostrotsvetkovym (Calamagrostis acutiflora), "Karl Foerester" plays a dual role, on the one hand is uporyadychevayuschim element, if it is repetitive, on the other hand brings to curb the movement. The famous English designer, Beth Chato wrote: "When drawing up the curb likened to folding of the proposal, the use of ornamental grasses can be compared with the adjectives, softening a phrase such as to make it transparent and easy. In the natural gardens where they have the hips and floribunda roses with simple flowers, they can be planted with Miscanthus (Miscanthus), Molina (Molinia caerulea), falyarisom cane (Phalaris arundinacea) and lyme sand (Leymus aranarius) (the latter two plant limiters). Lyme sand and blue-gray fescue (Festuca glauca) will add mixborders soothing, blue color. A combination of roses and grasses are very popular in Germany. This combination looks both attractive and amazing.
Options to mixborders with roses can be the greatest of many. You can choose what you like. Be creative, go ahead, try it, and the result will please you for years.