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The standard form of plants attracts attention with its uniqueness. But the most spectacular are standard roses. They have every twig, leaf, bud and flower in sight. And the plant itself resembles a huge bouquet on a thin stem.
But it is the form that baffles novice gardeners when they have to cover the rose bushes for the winter. Plants in central Russia cannot survive without such a procedure. How to cover a standard rose for the winter will be discussed in the article. In addition, we will present to your attention a video in which experienced gardeners will share their secrets.
Correct landing is the key to wintering
If you decide to plant a standard rose on your site (they are popularly called stems), then first it is best to watch a video about the rules of placement and preparation for winter.
How to prepare roses for winter:
The fact is that already during landing, you need to accurately determine the direction of bending the trunk in front of the shelter.
There are a number of rules to watch out for:
- It is undesirable to plant standard roses next to buildings, because there will be problems when laying the crown for the winter.
- You can not plant the bushes with a bump in the direction of the path. Firstly, standard roses will interfere with movement. Secondly, especially if the garden paths are covered with concrete, the plants freeze to the bone, no shelter can help.
Leaving before the shelter
In order for the shelter of standard roses to be successful, and in the next season, fragrant rose bushes bloomed on the site, the plants need to be prepared for wintering.
- In the last decade of August, standard roses must be fed so that the plants gain enough strength for wintering. Fertilizers containing nitrogen must be "forgotten" until spring in July, so that new shoots do not form, which do not have time to ripen to cover. At this time, standard roses, like all representatives of a large family, need potassium-phosphorus fertilizing. Thanks to them, the shoots ripen faster in plants, the root system is strengthened and frost resistance increases.
- Already in September, standard roses stop watering. After the 15th, the foliage and buds are removed. The leaves are trimmed gradually over several days. But if rose bushes grow in the country, and there is no way to deal with them on weekdays, then you can trim the leaves at one time. Fallen leaves from standard roses must be scooped out from under the bush, since pathogens or insects may remain on them.
- The next step before hiding is pruning. At boles, shoots are shortened, as well as twigs that have grown inside the bush. If there are shoots on the rose bush that did not have time to ripen or with damage, then they must be removed.
- In October, under the standard roses, the soil is loosened so that enough oxygen is supplied to the roots, and they are sprayed with iron vitriol or Bordeaux liquid. Moreover, you need to process every centimeter of plants and the soil around them.
- Each rose bush must be spud. The height of the comb must be at least 20 cm, and the inoculation site must be closed. Hilling promotes high aeration of the root system. In addition, the soft soil does not freeze as much in winter. Moreover, hilling is carried out on dry ground so as not to provoke the growth of new shoots of standard roses before shelter for the winter.
The time for preparing boles for wintering is indicated approximately. In each region, you need to focus on the reports of meteorologists.Even in one region, winter starts at a different time every year. They finally cover the standard roses for the winter, when the night temperature drops to -5-7 degrees.
Shelter roses for the winter
Shelter methods
The stems are covered in almost the same way as other types of roses. There are different ways:
- Covering with spruce branches or leaves of other plants. Immediately, we note that for harsh winters, this method of protecting standard roses is not always effective.
- The air-dry method involves the installation of a frame and insulation with various non-woven materials. The ends are not closed immediately, but only when temperatures drop to -10 degrees. If enough snow falls, then such a shelter saves standard roses even in severe frosts.
Shelter step by step
A standard rose is obtained by grafting varietal plants onto a rosehip stock. Such plants are considered frost-resistant. But the grafted part is the most painful place. It is she who can suffer from frost. Therefore, the trunks require protection. We will tell you step by step how to cover a standard rose for the winter and provide an opportunity to watch the video.
Step one - bending the plant
If the rose is a first year, then it will not be difficult to bend it to the ground before sheltering for the winter. But what about older boles, which, due to low temperatures in winter, cannot be covered in an upright position?
Firstly, this work must be done gradually, accustoming the barrel to a new position. A recess is dug out of the plant in the direction of the slope, trying not to damage the root system. although, according to experienced gardeners, this does not harm the plants, since standard plants will successfully grow the root system in the spring. Then we slightly bend the standard rose and fix it with some material, for example, with staples, so that it does not take a vertical position again. The next day we bend it down again, and so on until the plant is pressed to the ground.
You need to bend the standard rose correctly, away from the scion, as shown in the figure. The lump serves as a reference point.
If you act in the opposite direction, the barrel will break. As a result, the crown of the standard rose should be on the ground.
Step two
Then the hole at the base of the trunk is buried, the root system is spud, and the stem is fixed with a bracket. Under the trunk at the root, you need to put something strong so that it does not break under the weight of the snow. It can be a log or a bottle, depending on the size of the plants.
Step three - cover
Leaves or spruce branches must be placed under the crown. Top shoots are also covered.
In winter, it is relatively warm in the shelter, so rodents often hide under shelter from frost. Naturally, they can chew on roses. To prevent this from happening, the plants are sprayed with iron sulfate before wintering. But for reliability, it is better to decompose poisonous drugs or naphthalene under the crown.
Step four - the choice of material for the shelter
How to proceed further, each gardener decides at his own discretion. You can set arcs or a frame in the form of a house with roses, and throw a non-woven material on top.
You can do otherwise: cover the insulated crown with a large cardboard box.
The main thing is that precipitation does not fall under the shelter. At first, roses do not cover tightly, they leave air holes. When the temperature drops to -7 degrees, all holes are plugged.
Many gardeners in the middle lane make a mistake when hiding rose bushes, not insulating the stem itself. In recent years, snow has fallen late or in insufficient quantities. And the frosts do their insidious deed: frost cracks appear on the trunk, in the spring the rose is not pleasing to the eye with green foliage, not to mention the flowers. Therefore, at the last stage of the shelter, the trunk is also insulated. Any covering material is thrown on top.
Another way
If the roses are low, no more than 80 cm, and the climatic conditions are not too harsh, then they can not be bent down, they can be covered in an upright position. Bushes are sure to spud. A bag without a bottom is put on the crown, tied at the site of vaccination. Then they are filled with foliage or spruce branches.
From above the bag is tied, a waterproof material is thrown. Before the onset of frost, they are wrapped in spunbond.
We cover the trunks:
Conclusion
Never get fooled by sellers' claims about the frost resistance of roses unless you live in the south. It is better to play it safe so that in the spring your garden is decorated with such huge bouquets of roses on thin legs.
By the way, cold resistance depends on the color of the buds. The most flimsy in this regard are roses with yellow flowers, then white ones. But the stems with red and pink flowers are the most hardy.
