Ah, rose, rose! Queen among flowers! If suddenly someone says that he does not like roses, in no case should he be believed, because this hypothetical "someone" is simply disingenuous. The queen is supposed to be capricious, cutesy and fragile, but this opinion is erroneous. Endurance, unpretentiousness and stamina - these are the qualities inherent in roy alty. Even if this person is a flower.
Description of the plant
It's good when a person has a garden - a sort of small piece of fragrant paradise where he can walk, sit on a bench and admire the roses that he grew himself. And if a person does not have heaven? Then he can set up a blooming rose garden right on his window.
Rose is a shrub, the height of which is either 15 cm or 2 m, sometimes more, depending on the type of plant and its variety. The shoots of the shrub are straight or arched, covered with thorns. Leaves are pinnate. The flowers have a double perianth witha large number of stamens and pistils, small (from 1 to 16 cm in diameter) or large, single and collected in inflorescences.
The color of the flowers is obscenely varied. The whole spectrum with its tones and semitones is covered here. Flowers are single-color, and two-color, and multi-color, and even mixed, painted and striped. Most rosebuds have a specific pleasant, easily recognizable smell, slightly stronger or weaker in strength. The fruits of the shrub are also diverse in shape and color.
Features of maintenance and cultivation
Care for indoor roses will not be too laborious or burdensome, as these plants are not tropical. However, it will be necessary to water after the soil has dried, fertilize during the growing season, and pruning at the correct time. In addition, it is necessary to adhere to the optimal temperature and light conditions for the rose. So, the rules for caring for roses in a pot at home are as follows.
Preferences for air temperature and humidity
Proper care of indoor roses involves maintaining certain temperatures for these plants. In summer it is from +20 to +25 ° С, but small deviations in one direction or another are quite acceptable. During this period, it is dangerous for roses to dry out the soil and overheat it in a container. In winter, these flowers need a dormant period and coolness with a temperature of +10 to + 15 ° С.
With regards to air humidity, proper home care for indoor rose flowers involves moderately humid air. ATtoo dry indoors, the rose is prone to parasites and needs periodic spraying every couple of days. In a cool room, a short warm shower will suffice to remove the dust from the leaves.
However, if it is a sunny day, then we must try not to get water on the bud in order to avoid damage and fungal diseases.
Required illumination
When caring for indoor roses, you must remember that these plants, like other flowering ones, are very photophilous. But it is extremely undesirable for them to allow overheating. Therefore, you should try to place flower pots on the southeastern and western windowsills, or even better, move them to the air, protecting them from direct sun. If this is not possible, then it is better to darken the pot.
So, for a room rose, home care involves providing bright but diffused light and preventing overheating of the root system.
Optimal soil and container
For a room rose, home care is carried out, among other things, by choosing the right container for planting. Rose bushes can be placed in pots of absolutely any shape and size, with the only caveat: the container must be sufficient for the development of the bush and unhindered air circulation in it. When the flower grows too large, it should be transplanted into a large pot.
Ceramic or wooden containers are best for roses, but plastic ones are also acceptable. However, in plastic pots in the summer quicklythe earth dries up, for this reason there is a shorter flowering of buds. Clay containers quickly lose water, and it is better to refuse them altogether.
When caring for a room rose at home, it is necessary to provide the flower with breathable and easily absorbent soil. The optimal soil composition for roses is as follows: 4 parts of soddy soil, 4 parts of humus and 1 part of sand. But in order not to be mistaken, you can purchase ready-made soil specifically for roses.
When planting a flower, you need to make sure that the pot has a good drainage system, excess water passes freely through the soil, but the holes in the bottom of the pot are such that moisture does not leave the container too quickly.
Features of care (watering, fertilizing, pruning)
Good care for indoor roses involves proper watering, especially during the summer, when the plant is actively developing and blooming. It is necessary to water the rose as soon as the soil dries out a little, especially in small containers. But making a swamp out of the soil is also unacceptable, as it can turn sour. Indoor rose flowers care at home require careful attention.
When the plant has ceased to gain color, and this is in autumn and winter, you must immediately reduce watering. When caring for indoor plants, roses for watering must use well-settled warm water, which is preferably filtered.
It is necessary to feed during budding once every two weeks, changing the applied mineral fertilizers and organic matter in turn. Top dressings should be used ordinary for flowering plants, which are dissolved inirrigation water.
It is important to remember that diseased plants should not be fed, in cloudy, especially cold weather, too. A plant that has just been bought and transplanted to a permanent place of residence should not be fed for about a month either.
Dried or yellowed leaves, wilted buds, which are removed to the first leaf, are subject to regular pruning. Another pruning is carried out before winter dormancy, when the stems are shortened to 10 cm, while leaving 4-5 buds on the branch. Cut branches can be used for propagation.
Methods of reproduction
When caring for a room rose at home, of all propagation methods, the cutting method is the most acceptable, which is best done between May and September.
To do this, cuttings (almost lignified) 10-15 cm in size must be cut from a faded branch with a pruner and placed in clean and warm water. At the same time, there should be 3 or 5 buds and a couple of leaves on the handle. After three weeks, the first roots will hatch. When the root system of the cutting is sufficiently developed, it should be planted in fertile soil, placed in containers of 200-300 ml in size.
To make the cutting easier to take root in the ground, you can add a growth stimulator. If the stalk was planted in autumn, then the next year its rapid growth and abundant flowering is possible.
Care depending on the seasons
Proper care of a room rose at different times of the year is different from caring for ordinary flowers growing in the open field.
Spring when it appearsthe first leaves and branches after a dormant period, the plant should be watered abundantly and fed with mineral fertilizers, infusion of bird droppings or mullein. During this period, a rose in room conditions needs special care: a lack of moisture or light should not be allowed for the bush. Once every two days, the plant can be sprayed with cool boiled water. When the nights become warm, the rose can be moved to a closed loggia or garden. But gradually accustom to the sun, first setting it in a shady corner, and only after 10 days you can put the flower under bright rays.
In summer, care comes down to regular watering, fertilizing and spraying. It is also necessary to remove faded buds and wilted leaves in a timely manner. You also need to make sure that the plant does not get sick.
In autumn, the rose is transferred back to the room, watered less often and gradually reduce feeding. Before leaving for wintering, the plant is pruned, while leaving 5 buds on the shoots.
In winter, caring for a room rose consists in rare watering (3 days after the earth has dried) and even more rare spraying. The flower should winter at +15 … +17 ° С.
Diseases and pests
All diseases of domestic roses happen from improper care. For example, too high humidity in the room, poor ventilation, non-compliance with the temperature regime (overheating of the soil).
From high humidity, the rose suffers from a fungal disease - leaf spot. Pruning of affected leaves and treatment with fungicides will help here. Powdery mildew occurs from frequent changes in temperature and is treated in the same way as leaf spot. For a rose inpotted care rules at home will be different from the same plants, but growing in the open field.
Often roses are attacked by spider mites. The fight against this scourge will not be easy. First of all, all affected areas are removed, then the plant is washed with a warm shower and treated with acaricides.
Variety of indoor roses
The genus "rose" belongs to the Rosaceae family and contains about 300 species growing in temperate climates. According to the variety of forms, there are about 20 thousand varieties, and cultivated roses are assigned to the numerous subgenus "rose" and have 135 species.
There are more than 250 types of roses grown in apartments, and no one counted the varieties, because there are a huge number of them. Indoor flowers also differ in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. They can be bush, standard, climbing and ground cover. It is believed that small roses are bred in China. However, selection was carried out in Southeast Asia and Europe.
Short varieties of roses are suitable for growing in apartments. For example: "Rose Bengal", "Pixie", "Baby Carnival", "Miniature Roses", "Coralyn", "Elenor".
Miniature rose
Room "Miniature Rose" does not require special care, it does not even need pruning. This variety was obtained by crossing dwarf tea roses and undersized polyanthus. Bushes are an exact copy of garden roses, only in miniature. Height notsometimes more than 30 cm. The leaves of the shrub are puppetally small, the flowers are collected in inflorescences, they have an unobtrusive pleasant aroma, and the color is very diverse, up to black. "Miniature roses" are characterized by abundant summer flowering.
Rose Bengal
Another variety of decorative room care roses that also does not require special care is the "Rose Bengal". It also does not need pruning, grows quickly, blooms profusely, tolerates winter well, does not even shed its leaves. Sometimes only dry branches need to be cut and that's it. But the flowers of this variety are almost completely odorless, which, of course, upsets, but this is its only drawback.
Varieties "Pixie", "Baby Carnival", "Coralyn", "Elenor"
The variety "Pixie" is frost-resistant, grows up to 20 cm, blooms profusely, double flowers with a pleasant aroma. "Baby Carnival" blooms with lemon-colored buds and has beautiful leathery leaves. Bushes of the "Elenor" variety grow up to 30 cm, they have coral-pink flowers with a diameter of 3 cm in inflorescences of 10-15 pieces with a very weak aroma. And the variety "Coralin" - the highest of the presented (up to 35 cm), is distinguished by the continuity of flowering with coral inflorescences of 5-6 flowers each and resistance to diseases and dead wood.
Indoor Chinese rose: home care
Separately, I would also like to note it is a plant called a rose and grown in apartments and offices. This is a roomChinese rose or indoor hibiscus, which is an evergreen shrub or tree and belongs to the genus Hibiscus of the Malvaceae family. In greenhouses, it grows up to three meters, and in apartments up to two.
Its leaves are reminiscent of birch. They are serrated at the edges, elongated oval in shape, dark green in color. The plant has single large flowers from 8 to 14 cm in diameter. Depending on the variety, the buds are simple or double, and the color is white, yellow, red or pink. Each flower only blooms for a couple of days. With the right care, the Chinese rose blooms from early spring to late autumn.
Both the shrub and the room rose tree require thorough care. The plant likes well-lit places without exposure to direct sunlight. In the warm season, it is better to take it out onto the street or balcony, protecting it from direct sun and drafts. A comfortable temperature for hibiscus is +18 +25 °С in summer, and up to +15 °С in winter. At lower temperatures, the plant will shed its leaves.
Chinese rose is a big fan of humid air, so it should be sprayed periodically in summer and winter. A warm shower will also be to her taste, it will wash off the spider mite and saturate the leaves with moisture. But in no case should water get on the buds, as they will immediately fall off. To humidify the air, you can also use a tray with wet expanded clay or pebbles, but the bottom of the pot should not touch the water.
Watering should take place with settled water at room temperature when the topsoil dries out2-3 cm deep. It is necessary to feed hibiscus, but only from April to September 1 time in 2 weeks with a special fertilizer for flowering plants, or alternate a complex of mineral fertilizers with organic matter. In winter, it is necessary to fertilize with potassium and phosphorus ¼ of the recommended dose, and only if the plant blooms.
Pruning is done to increase flowering in the spring before transplanting and before bud formation. At the same time, dried, bare and too elongated branches are removed, while he althy branches are shortened by half. The cut points are processed with garden pitch, and the cut parts can be used for grafting.
The pot must be chosen slightly cramped, since in a spacious vessel a Chinese rose, busy growing foliage, will not bloom. The plant is transplanted once a year (if it is young) and each new pot should be 2-3 cm larger than the old one. After the age of five, transplantation is carried out every 3-4 years. And old plants are not touched if they are he althy, they only change the top layer of the earth.
Having created a heavenly rose garden on your windowsill or balcony, endlessly admiring the beauty of the queen of flowers and inhaling the delightful delicate aroma, how can one succumb, for example, to black thoughts or despondency?
