Tea roses, these are the same roses that we usually buy or give in bouquets. This fact speaks of the enormous popularity of tea roses, but they are all not the same. To care for tea roses, and to succeed in their growing, you need to know many things, understand the climatic zones, in grades.
Flowers of the tea rose have up to 60 petals and reach a diameter of more than 12 cm. Tea roses are characterized by pointed, elongated, slowly budding buds. Roses grow anywhere, stretch to a width of 1.2 meters and a height of 1.8 m. Tea roses have long stems that make roses ideal for pruning. They can be of different colors, with different amount of color gradations.
How to care for tea roses .
Choose tea roses should be based on your climatic zone and climate. If your summer is wet, then you need to protect the rose from false-dew-dried. If dry summer, then you need to look to the root system was viable, and the tea rose was resistant to heat.
Area of growth.
Depending on the variety, tea roses can withstand frost from -12 degrees to -23 degrees. Where there is severe frost, you need additional protection of roses. This increases the figure to -29 degrees Celsius. To changing weather, tea roses are more stable, which have thick petals, they bloom longer than those roses that are cut into bouquets.
Cultivation.
When you get tea roses with bare roots, you need to remove the packaging from the roots, soak them in a bucket of water from 2 hours to 24 hours. It is worth making sure that the land around this place, where you will plant tea roses, is rich in organic substances and is free. It is necessary to excavate the pit so that it is large enough for the roots of the rose, approximately in diameter from 20 cm to 25 cm. From the soil, pour a hill, make a hole in the middle and plant the roots of the rose there.
To protect the tea rose from disease and to make it frost-resistant, it is necessary to make the roses inoculated. A stem of tea rose with buds is planted to the trunk with roots, for this purpose a rose-resistant, frost-resistant rose is taken as a rootstock. In this case, a bundle of kidneys is located in the base of the plant. If the climate is warm, then the kidney is at an altitude of 5 cm above the soil level. If the climate is cold, the sprouts of the tea rose should be protected from cold. To get rid of air gaps, you need to fill half the hole with soil and water it well. Then completely fill with soil and water again. When it is already planted, the top of the rose is cut, this is necessary to improve the growth of the rose.
Watering.
The land near the tea rose, as well as other garden plants, should be slightly moist to a depth of about 2.5 cm to 5 cm. It is enough to water once a week. Of course, this still depends on the specific conditions of breeding and climate. Sandy soil and hot areas need frequent watering, than if it grew in cold areas. For example, we can say that if the land is 8 cm dry, then it should be watered.
Only water it is necessary not the leaves of tea roses, but only the earth, so that there is an increased growth of roots. If the tea rose has deep and strong roots, they will help the tea rose survive dry times.
Top dressing .
Since tea roses re-bloom, they need a regular and thorough top dressing. A month before the new growth or early spring, or when you remove the protection from the cold. To feed tea roses it is necessary time in 2 weeks or every week, depending on what you will apply fertilizer. Choose a special fertilizer for roses or a balanced fertilizer. Tea roses need an insignificant level of acidity from 6.0 to 6.5 pH.
In the soil should be the presence of iron. If the tea rose has leaves with green and yellow veins, then the plant lacks iron.
Food salt or magnesium sulphate helps active flowering of tea roses and is needed for an intense shade of flowers. If the soil contains a lot of magnesium, then the addition of soda will not add anything. If it is not enough, then you need to add half cup for each rose 2 times a year and water well.
Six weeks before the first frosts, you need to stop fertilizing roses. You can not encourage a rose to a new growth, because when the weather changes, roses can die.
Use in the garden of roses.
Tea roses are often planted in the garden in separate rows, so it's easier to take care of. The distance between the rose bushes should be 25 cm to 65 cm, do not allow weeds to grow. Tea roses are grown not because of their landscape appearance, but for their magnificent flowering. They look good as a hedge with slowly growing evergreens. With tea roses work well in partnership with plants such as catnip, lavender, true geranium.
Pruning .
Pruning tea roses is no different from pruning other types of roses. Branches with blossoming roses, it is necessary to cut off regularly, then there will be much less work on pruning them in early spring. You need to choose not such prickly varieties of tea roses, the fewer thorns there will be, the less prone to pruning.
Before you cut the rose, you need to make sure that there are several leaves on the tea rose stem. Cut off at 06 cm above the sprout, which is outward and at an angle of 45 degrees so that the water can flow well. First you need to cut the damaged, diseased, dried branches of the rose. Cut thin, dry branches that are less than 1.2 cm in diameter. If strong branches are cut off, you need to leave a third of the length of the branch, and be about 21 cm in size. This trim encourages the plant to have strong stems and large flowers.
In conclusion, we add that caring for roses and cutting roses allows you to form and disclose the plant. Pruning allows the plant to direct energy to fewer colors, so you gain in quality.