How to grow roses Iceberg, and how are they good?
The climbing rose Iceberg is not without reason called the snow queen of the garden. The picky, frost-resistant plant with delicate flowers is incredibly popular among gardeners.
Snow-white beauty adorn gardens, lawns, front gardens and gazebos. With the help of this marvelous flower, a fabulous view of the flower beds is created. Learn about the features of the Queen of the Garden and look at the photos of this rose.
From the article you will learn everything you need about this flower and about its cultivation. In addition, we will tell you how the Iceberg rose propagates and how to grow this wonderful flower on its site.
Detailed description
Such the name of this variety of roses was due to fabulous flowering. When the buds open, the bush looks like a snow iceberg.
Rosa Iceberg grows to a meter and a half in height and a meter in width. The flower itself is terry, on average 6-7 cm, in each bud there are about 30 petals. The leaves are dense, light green. The only drawback of the plant is the lack of smell.History of occurrence
This variety obtained in Germany back in 1958 as a result of crossing musky climbing and tea-hybrid roses. The climbing rose Iceberg is a variety of the most beautiful Schneewittchen variety from the Floribunda variety.
Photo
Here you can see what this gorgeous plant looks like.
What is the difference from other climbing plants?
- Abundant, long and repeated flowering.With the timely removal of faded inflorescences in autumn, one can again admire gorgeous flowers.
- A faint, almost absent aroma.
- Rapid growth. In a short time, the Iceberg rose can wrap around a wall or facade.
- The structure of the flower and leaves. The foliage has a characteristic sheen, terry flowers and a cup-shaped.
Bloom
When and how does it happen?
It blooms all summer until late autumn - continuously and abundantly.
Care before and after
Features of the plant. Snow-white beauty loves the sun, drained soil and moderate humidity.
What to do if it does not bloom?
- Diseases - for the prevention of dangerous ailments, even at the stage of sleeping kidneys, bushes should be irrigated with Bordeaux 1% liquid. It is also necessary to provide the plant with potash fertilizers. Affected branches and lack of shelter for the winter can also cause a lack of flowering.
- Wild growth. It is necessary to regularly and timely remove processes from the basal zone.
- Excess Nitrogen Additives. Such top dressing provokes a build-up of green mass, and this negatively affects the setting of buds.
- Wrong landing place. This can lead not only to the lack of flowering, but even to the death of the flower.
- Incorrect pruning. It is important to observe the measure, do not overdo it - capturing many young shoots, the rose will not be able to recover and will not form buds.
- Adverse Soil Composition. The earth must be loose, fertile and contain nutrients.
Step-by-step care instructions
Site selection
The best place to plant an Iceberg rose is a site well protected by the sun's rays from the wind.
To land a snow-white beauty, it is necessary to choose a flat area without depressions so that water does not accumulate.What should be the soil?
The plant responds remarkably to drained, light, loose, humus-rich soil.
Landing
It is recommended to start landing as soon as the soil warms up a little. Optimal in April. First you need to soak the seedlings in water. When planting, pruning should be performed - remove excess shoots and roots over 30 cm.
Dig the soil deep and add fertilizer. Then they lower the flower into the pit and water it.
Temperature
One of the important advantages of roses of this variety is its good adaptation to temperature extremes. You can plant a plant both in warm and in cold climates.. The most admissible winter temperature is up to -35C.
Watering
Water the climbing rose to the very root, preventing water from getting on the leaves and buds to avoid fungal diseases. Water temperature should be slightly higher than the environment.
Top dressing
At the beginning of summer, it is recommended to do two top dressings. - mineral complex fertilizers or ammonium nitrate. This will provide the plant with a long flowering and developed root system.
Pruning
For healthy flowering and the formation of a bush, pruning of a snow-white beauty is carried out in the autumn or spring.
With a sharp tool, shoots older than three years are gradually removed, retaining only one or two years.Garter
To give the bush a shape, you need to tie new branches.
It is not recommended to place all lashes horizontallyotherwise buds will only spawn at the tops.
For lush flowering, you can:
- Arrange the stalks with a fan, and do not tie the side shoots so that they grow up and to the sides.
- Guide the shoots around the support and tie in a spiral, then the lashes will entwine the arch.
- Arrange horizontally the main shoots, tied to a support. Then the new side branches will grow up.
Transfer
If the flower is planted in an unsuccessful place - it must be transplanted urgently. This is best done in the fall.
- The ground part of the plant is removed from the support, and the bush is carefully dug, retreating from the base of the plant about 60 cm.
- After that, the culture is taken out of the ground, removing excess soil, and immediately transplanted to a new place.
It is necessary to transplant the climbing rose as carefully as possible so as not to damage the root system of the snow-white darling.
- After a couple of days, you need to fill up the earth and spud the rose.
Preparation for winter
The plant needs to be prepared in advance for winter cold.
- In October, diseased shoots are cut out, leaves and flowers are removed.
- In the fall, they do not carry out full pruning so that the frost does not destroy the freshly cut shoots. The shoots of the Rose Iceberg are flexible, so it will not be difficult to pull them to the ground and cover them with spruce branches.
Such a shelter during thaws will protect the flower from moisture.
- With the advent of spring, shelters are removed and the soil is loosened.
- Since September, it is necessary to reduce the amount of watering, not to loosen the earth and to exclude nitrogen fertilizing.
Breeding
Cuttings
Cuttings can be cut from faded or flowering branches. There must be at least two internodes on the cut branch.
- The cuttings cut off the upper leaves by half and completely cut off all the lower leaves.
- The cutlery is placed in a container with sand and soil, deepened by a couple of centimeters, covered with a glass jar and hidden in a well-lit place.
- Without removing the cans, it is necessary to regularly water the stalk and protect from direct rays.
Seeds
- Seeds must be pre-soaked for half an hour in 3% hydrogen peroxide. Disinfection is the prevention of mold.
- Then we spread the seeds on a thin layer of cotton wool saturated with hydrogen peroxide, and cover with the same layer of cotton on top.
- Wrap in a plastic bag and hide in the refrigerator.Seeds need to be regularly inspected and cotton layers changed.
- After a month and a half, we transfer the sprouted seed to peat tablets or small plastic cups with this earthen mixture.
- After a few months, the first buds should appear on young roses. In the spring they are planted in open ground.
Layering
- In the spring we make an incision on the shoot.
- At the bottom of the groove 10 cm wide, we lay a thin layer of humus and sprinkle a light layer of soil on top.
- Then we carefully bend the shoot, put it in a ditch and fix it with metal brackets.
- We leave the top from above, and we sprinkle the shoot with earth.
- Next spring layering can be cut from the bush and planted in a separate area.
Propagation by vaccination on dogrose
The optimal time for the operation is the end of July and the beginning of August.
- Rosehip before the procedure must be abundantly watered.
- An incision of the bark is made on the root neck of the shrub in the form of the letter "t", then the edges of the bark are slightly pulled.
- A peephole cut from a rose is placed in this "pocket".
The peephole should be separated from the flower along with the bark and a small piece of wood.
- The eye is pressed tightly against the neck of the stock, and this area is tightly wrapped with a film for budding.
- After the procedures, the rosehip bush should be spudded so that the soil rises above the grafting site by at least 5 cm.
- After a couple of weeks, the film can be slightly loosened, and with the beginning of next spring removed completely.
Diseases and Pests
- The most dangerous diseases of the climbing beauties:
- bacterial cancer;
- gray rot;
- powdery mildew.
- The most popular pests of climbing roses:
- spider mite;
- aphid;
- thrips.
At the initial stage of the defeat, aphids can be eliminated manually, and later only chemical preparations will help to destroy the parasite. A silver coating on the foliage is a sign of a spider mite attack. In the fight against the lover of heat and drought, the contact ascaricide Neoron is effective.
Snow-white rose buds of Iceberg bloom spectacularly, richly and most importantly - until late autumn. Repeated flowering, rapid proliferation and a mild aroma are the hallmarks of this flower. The plant is unpretentious, beautiful, cold-resistant, but because it is very loved by gardeners.
Interesting video
We offer you to watch a video about the climbing rose variety Iceberg: