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Among all the variety of related plants, climbing roses occupy a special place due to the abundance of flowers and the possibility of an incredible arrangement. The most bizarre forms of these amazing flowers create supports for climbing roses. Since they themselves do not curl, it is the support for roses, along which they are guided and on which the shoots are fixed, that is of decisive importance for the design of a flower garden, garden or park. Summer residents usually arrange their plot in such a way that all the structures can be made by themselves, the support for a climbing rose with their own hands is no exception.
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Using climbing roses, summer residents often want to create a shady resting place, decorate the entrance to a plot or alley, if the place allows, decorate fences with them and mask unsightly buildings. With the help of vertical supports, they make the rose the central figure of a flower garden or even the entire garden.
But when choosing a place for such a design, you need to remember that a rose is a delicate plant with its own needs and preferences. Therefore, it should be planted where it will be possible to provide a sufficient amount of light, where water flowing from the entire area will not accumulate, where groundwater does not come close to the surface. Otherwise, if you plant a rose in an inappropriate place for it, then you will not have to enjoy the wonderful flowering, but treat it for many diseases, admiring only the prepared support, not entwined with lush branches.
Climbing roses are divided into shrubs and ramblers, which are very different from each other. So most varieties of scrubs have powerful, thick, almost rigid shoots growing up to 2 meters or more. They have an amazing aroma and large flowers. And flower growers, among other advantages, especially note a small number of thorns. Their bushes at first glance do not require support for growth, but they need it, because heavy flowering branches can break under their own weight and the actions of the wind. The support will not only support the shoots, it will help them look really great.
Ramblers without support will not grow well and will not look the way they deserve at all. Their thin flexible branches grow up to 4,5 meters, they are covered with small abundant flowers that look very decorative on supports of bizarre or simplest shapes.
In addition to being convenient for the rose itself, the place should allow you to fix the support so that it can withstand not only the weight of the rose, but also be able to withstand strong gusts of wind. If the roses are supposed to be put on the wall, then the support should be at a distance of 25 cm from it, a smaller distance will not ensure air circulation.
Video “How to make supports yourself”
From the video you will learn how to independently and easily make supports.
Types of supports
The forms of supports are very diverse, but they are based on several main varieties that designers beat depending on the desired result. The main ones are arch or pergola; trellises, which can take the form of a vertical wall, a pyramid, a ladder or just a lattice; pillars or monuments.
When constructing a support, you need to remember that climbing roses do not curl themselves and do not cling to the support, they must be consistently directed in the right direction and fixed on the support. In addition, there is a very important secret of flowering – flowers are not formed on the main shoots, but on short, usually branches that extend from them at a right (or almost) angle, and these young branches always grow upwards. Therefore, the main shoots should be located horizontally or at least at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground line. This must be remembered when braiding the support. You can not direct the shoots vertically upwards, then the flowers will appear somewhere high, there will be few of them, flowering from June to September will not work. And, of course, the bush must be freed from faded roses, which stimulates the formation of new buds.
It is necessary to build a support before planting the plant, so as not to damage the roots of the rose already growing in this place.
Arch
Arches are built at the entrance to the site, to the gazebo, house or some area of the park. A do-it-yourself rose arch is usually made of wood or metal. A tree always looks great among flowers, it is used to support massive stems, and metal structures are often twined with thin, delicate shoots. Wooden arches covered with varnish or paint can last more than 10 years, and metal arches for at least 15 years.
The support pillars must be firmly fixed in the ground, in some cases they even make a concrete base. For the arch, a vault is made, and for a pergola, a lattice (most often wooden) is installed according to the type of roof. The pillars must be at least 1,80 m high, wooden blocks or metal rods are installed around them in a circle at the same distance, they are fixed on the base and the upper beam. It is along them that the growing shoots of roses will be directed, they will curl onto the pole in a spiral, located almost horizontally. Two shoots can be braided towards each other, they will be covered with young branches with flowers.
For a pergola, you can use a removable net of ropes or a lattice of wooden planks. This design will facilitate the sheltering of the bush for the winter, its main part will simply be removed along with the grate or net.
Trellis
The trellis is placed against the wall or in the middle of the garden, separating different zones. It can be simply a rectangular structure, consisting of a strong frame, usually wooden, and a lattice located (fixed) inside this frame. Summer residents usually use metal wire or wooden planks for grating, which look great among the greenery of a rose if they are painted with white paint. Less commonly used plastic purchased grills. Tapestries are arranged in the form of a fan or give them a bizarre shape, which the rose bush itself acquires, hiding the tapestry under it.
You can simply dig vertical racks of the desired height into the ground, usually from one and a half meters and above. Holes are made in them along the entire height through 20 – 50 cm from each other, nails curved with hooks are inserted with the help of pliers. A wire is pulled onto these resulting hooks – this is the simplest frame. It must be disinfected and painted.
On the trellis, it is not necessary to place roses on one side, shoots can be threaded through the lattice, then a flowering wall will turn out on both sides. This is not very convenient for caring for covering roses – in the fall it will be difficult to unravel them in order to fold and cover for the winter, and if the roses do not need such warming, then a double-sided flowering trellis will look very impressive.
Netting, laced with climbing rose shoots, can be an example of a simple trellis, but it can also be a magnificent hedge, completely hiding under the leaves and flowers of a lush plant.
Pillar
A pillar as a support for roses can be of any height, located in the middle of a flower garden, thus placing it in two planes, or it can stand near a bench or gazebo, delighting the eyes of vacationing owners and arousing the envy of their guests. In parks, they make an excellent composition, placing poles at the same distance from each other along an alley or path, connecting them with a beautifully sagging rope or chain. The roses that wind around the pillars hang picturesquely from these chains in blooming garlands.
The pillar can be made of any material, in dachas it is usually wood, and in parks there is anything you like – wood, metal, stone. But around this central support, metal or wooden horizontal circular fragments should be located, on which the shoots weaving along them will be fixed, so that the branches spiral upwards, and then also fall down, if the length of the shoots allows.
According to this principle, not just pillars are built, but pyramids or other elongated structures, usually referred to as monuments.
Supports, whatever form they may be, are designed not only to support climbing roses, but also to help them look in all their amazing beauty, decorating the garden.
Video “Different types of supports”
From the video you will learn about common types of supports.
