HOW TO GROW CLIMBING ROSES [from expert] 🌹🌹

Climbing rose is a beautiful ornamental plant, widely planted to make trusses to climb walls, to climb fences, to make porches or to be planted as standing bushes to further decorate the garden landscape. This species of persimmon appears in many places, especially in temperate and subtropical climates with a variety of colors and sizes.

1. Characteristics of climbing roses

There is also another name is rose vine, the scientific name of climbing rose is Rosa spp, originating from Europe.

Morphological characteristics

- The climbing rose has wooden trunks, climbing stems, and hanging branches. Climbers by leaning against other trees or clinging to existing erection frames such as walls, fences, ...

- The stem of the tree is wooded, the above is divided into many branches. The branches are covered with sharp thorns.

- The foliage of roses is dense and can reach up to 3m.

- Feather-shaped compound leaves, each leaf contains 5 - 9 double leaves. Leaf blade oval, serrated at the edge.

- Single, big, blooming simple climbing roses with many different colors such as pink, purple, red, white ... Each flower has many thick petals, layered around a round pillar, 6-8 in diameter cm. Climbing roses usually bloom around April - May, giving off a mild fragrance.

Ecological characteristics

- The climbing rose is a plant that prefers a cool, airy place, suitable for outdoor living, but cannot withstand the harsh sun, so climbing roses often grow in temperate regions.

- This flower has good vitality, healthy, easy to care for.

- Average growth rate.

2. How to plant a climbing rose

Part time

You can plant roses in the early spring, summer or fall so that the root system is formed, stable and healthy before winter comes. But the best time to help plants have resistance and grow most strongly is in spring.

How to choose a pot

For small climbing roses, lower than 0.5m, you should choose pots with the size of 20x20cm. Because the plant is small, the demand for water is not much, so choosing a small pot can more easily control moisture.

For larger plants, with a height of nearly 1m or more than 1m, a pot with the size of 40x40 cm or 50x50cm should be chosen. In the case of a narrow planting space, you can choose pots with a diameter of 30cm but at least 50cm high.

If you want to move easily, you can choose plastic pots, which are not only light but also cheap. If only for fixed decoration, you should choose wooden pots, porcelain pots, wooden pots, pots with beautiful decorative patterns.

Besides choosing pots, growers should also prepare a frame to make the base for climbing roses.

Land for planting

To mix climbing rose soil, can be mixed in the following ratio: 50% plastic soil: 20% rice husks: 20% clean soil: 5% manure: 5% microbiological organic fertilizer. All are mixed and incubated a few days before planting flowers.

At the bottom of the pot, it is also necessary to lay a sponge or a dry layer of rice husk to prevent roses from flooding, causing stem rot, plant death.

How to plant a climbing rose in a pot

Apply a little fertilizer at the bottom of the pot, then use scissors to remove the soil cover at the base of the plant, keeping the soil pot. Place the rose tree in the center of the pot, abandoning the substrate, pre-mixed soil into the pot. Use your hands to gently press the root. Note that the soil substrate is not filled through the grafting eye.

After planting, use a small bamboo stick to plug in the center of the pot, fix the persimmon tree to the bamboo bar to keep it from wind or external impact loosening the base. Water your newly planted climbing rose for the first time. Bring in cool for about 3-5 days before taking out to dry gradually.

4. How to take care of climbing roses

Sprinklers

In the dry season, the roses should be watered twice in the early morning and late afternoon when it is cool. When watering, just water around the base, avoid watering on leaves and flowers to prevent fungus and disease.

In winter, watering every 2-3 days, the amount of watering is less due to the humidity in the air at this time is quite high, if watering a lot, it will easily cause the plants to waterlogged, easy to pests and diseases. In particular, absolutely do not water the plants at night, so it will create conditions for harmful bacteria to grow.

Land change

If you are planting a climbing rose in a pot, after about a year the soil has been exhausted, there is not enough space for the roots to grow; Using chemical fertilizers will cause the soil to become callous and cannot be improved; The tree also has the phenomenon of old leaves, withered, spindly branches,…It is time to change soil, repot the climbing roses.

Before repotting, you should stop watering for about 1 day to avoid the phenomenon of gourd, then lift all the persimmon tree with potting medium out of the pot to plant a new pot with a new substrate that has been mixed with enough nutrients for the plant.

After repotting, it is necessary to water the plants with water. Water slowly until water comes out of the perineum and stop. Combining repotting is conducting pruning old branches, long, yellow leaves for better plant growth.

The light

The climbing rose is a species that likes sunlight, suitable for growing in cool, airy places, with at least 6 hours of light per day. Ideally, the tree should be placed in the east so that it can get sunlight in the morning.

There are two most effective ways to plant a climbing rose: cuttings and seeds.

Cutting

With climbing roses, pruning small branches, dead flowers should prune the 2 - 3 segment of leaves because the shoots in these leaves will weaken the plant, creating small flowers; prune the extra sprouts.

Pest and disease prevention

To prevent pests and diseases for climbing roses, it is necessary to pay attention to the following points:

- When watering, avoid watering directly on flowers and leaves, especially at night, this will create conditions for some harmful bacteria to form, grow and cause disease for plants.

- If the plant has fungus: Apply several fungicides to be sprayed periodically every 7 days.

- If the plant has thrips: Spray Confindor about 7-10 days / time.

- If the tree is red spider: Spray some medicine such as Alphamite every 20 days.

5. The use and meaning of climbing roses

Uses

- Climbing roses are planted in front of the house, gongs, planted on the wall to make the house more beautiful.

- Planted as a flower gate, romantic flower arch

- Create shade to shade in the garden.

Meaning

The climbing rose is the image of beauty, associated with the symbol of love and romantic love stories.