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The rose has long been called the queen of flowers. Many songs and legends are dedicated to her. The inhabitants of ancient India revered this flower in a special way:
- If a visitor brought a rose to an Indian king, he had many advantages: the master could fulfill any desire of the petitioner.
- The temples of the Brahmins were decorated with roses, the kings always had these flowers in their chambers.
- When religious ceremonies were held, the road to the gods was strewn with colorful petals.
- During the wedding ceremony, the brides were sprinkled with roses, as a sign of a future happy life.
Since then, a lot of time has passed, and roses do not lose popularity. Breeders have bred many new varieties with a unique color and inimitable aroma. Among them is the climbing rose Black Queen: in the photo there is a huge bouquet of black and burgundy flowers.
Description
This amazing variety, which the s immediately fell in love with, is called differently:
- Black Queen:
- Black Queen;
- Dark Queen.
It’s great that one flower has so many beautiful and unusual names! But why such an attitude towards a new variety of roses? It’s all about the elegance, originality of the climbing rose Black Queen. Judging by the reviews, it is the elegance and unusualness of the color that attracts flower lovers.
The height of long flexible whips reaches a height of three meters. Plants are erect, small in size. Rose bushes are surprisingly good at landscaping thanks to their tenacious hold on a support.
No variety of climbing roses has such a color of petals as the Black Queen: rich burgundy or black anthracite, with tints of crimson and scarlet. The plant blooms profusely, several buds bloom at once. From a distance it seems that black clusters hang on the plant. Each flower individually looks like a huge ball, as in the photo.
Advantages
Flowering is plentiful, long. Starting in June, more and more black buds are always blooming in the garden. And so all summer, until the first frosts come. The beauty of the overflows is enhanced, the petals become bright and juicy if the plant is planted in a sunny place where there is a lot of light.
Since the Black Queen belongs to climbing varieties, the care rules are no different.
Exotic flowers amaze with unusual black, with tints of color, huge double flowers with a burgundy core. If you touch the flower, you feel cool velvet under your fingers. Just look at this branch in the photo below. It’s hard to get past. The finest aroma from the blooming black queen spreads over a long distance, envelops everything around.
Black Queen – garden decoration
Climbing roses are most appreciated by landscape designers for the ability to create amazing flower arrangements. Judging by the reviews of flower growers, the beautiful Black Gueen rose has a special place. A huge number of large buds, black with tints of color, which do not crumble for a long time, do not lose their charm, allows you to combine the plant with other types of roses. Look at the photo.
In conclusion about the benefits of roses
The climbing rose of the Black Queen variety, like all its relatives, is not only an ornament of a garden, a park. Rose petals, even those of black roses, are valued for their medicinal properties.
The petals of the Black Queen contain a large number of:
- essential oils;
- vitamins;
- iron and calcium;
- carotene;
- flavonoids;
- quartzite;
- tannin.
Rose petals are used in the treatment of skin diseases, the healing of small wounds, as they have an anti-inflammatory effect. Broths from buds are the best remedy for bronchitis. Help to get rid of stress, relieve headaches.
Many flower growers are convinced of the benefits of rose petals as a rejuvenating agent, which is often written about in their reviews. And jam, liqueurs, even homemade perfumes from the petals of the Black Queen can be prepared.
