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The rose has long been an indispensable element of the decor of every garden. Even the most captious and capricious flower lover will find in the variety of cultivars what he likes. This is not surprising, because today there are, according to various sources, from 25 to 50 thousand varieties and hybrids. Perhaps no other flower is so diverse. Roses are united by the fact that they are all perennial plants, they bloom beautifully and for a long time, with proper care they can remain on the site for more than two decades. And their phytoncides have a beneficial effect on the physical and mental health of a person.
Roses are babies, the size of which does not exceed 20 cm, and the flower is 1,5 cm, and they can have shoots reaching 6 meters in length, while the diameter of the flower in some varieties is 18 cm. They can be grown in the form of a bush or a standard tree from 30 up to 150 cm tall, ground cover or climbing plant. Today, our heroine will be a climbing rose, whose popularity either fades or flares up with renewed vigor. To date, so many wonderful new varieties have been created that it is worth getting to know it even for those who have not previously shown interest in this variety. We will present to your attention the best varieties of climbing roses with photos.
Climbing roses and their uses
Climbing roses are garden varieties and some rose hips that have long, flexible shoots. This is what determines the scope of their application in landscape design. In nature, there are no such types of roses that wrap around a support like creepers, but a person can give them a vertical position with a garter or location in the immediate vicinity of the supports.
It is vertical gardening that is the area where climbing roses can show their beauty to the fullest. They are planted at pergolas, arbors, arch supports or special lattices, with the help of trimmings and garters, the whips are directed in the right direction. Thus, truly magnificent flowering small architectural forms are formed, designed to decorate our site, and often carrying utilitarian functions. With a wall of blooming roses, we can well protect a gazebo or a place of rest from the wind, cover up unsightly outbuildings, which in a small area simply cannot be moved away from the residential area. With the help of trellises, pergolas, flowering arches, we can even visually enlarge a small area, and divide a large one into zones.
Many varieties of climbing roses will look great as a tapeworm (single focal plant) if correctly formed around a support in the form of a flowering column or a spreading tall weeping bush. They serve as fertile material for the creation of standard roses.
История вопроса
It is now almost impossible to trace varieties of climbing roses to their wild relatives. This is not surprising, because every modern variety is the result of many years of crossing both between species and within them. In addition, the first cultivars appeared long before our era, many intermediate links were simply lost and now they do not exist in nature. But scientists have identified several types of wild rose hips, which supposedly once served as the source material for modern climbing roses. We will give a brief description of them, offer to see the photo. Perhaps they will impress, and along with cultivars, a wild species will settle on your site.
Musk Rose
It is a shrub with long, up to 5 meters hanging curving shoots. This wild rose blooms almost continuously with white flowers smelling of honey, 4-5 cm in diameter. It will fit perfectly into a large area in the middle lane.
Evergreen Rose
According to the morphological description, this wild rose is very similar to the previous species, but less winter-hardy.
Multiflora
This wonderful shrub with shoots up to 7 meters long came to Europe from East Asia, where it immediately made a splash. Its small, 1,5-2,0 cm diameter pink or white flowers are collected in pyramidal inflorescences and have almost no smell, but the bush looks very decorative, look at the photo. Multiflora is able to interbreed very easily with other representatives of the Rosehip genus, it gave rise to many varieties and hybrids.
Arven Rose (Arvenzis)
This wild rose is common in Southern Europe. It has a high decorative effect, its long creeping shoots are completely covered with small flowers resembling jasmine. In autumn, the bushes are decorated with numerous small bright red berries.
Rosa Banks
This evergreen wild rose comes from Southeast Asia, and is suitable for cultivation only in the southern regions. Its shoots reach a length of 10 m, and small white or cream flowers are collected in corymbs and have a pleasant smell.
Rose Smooth
This East Asian wild rose with weakly leafy flexible shoots up to 5 m long has poor winter hardiness and is very fond of in the USA.
Roza Vykhura
Rosehip Vihura crosses with other species almost as easily as Multiflora. It is a semi-evergreen shrub with very fast growing, lying or creeping stems. Their whips reach 5 meters in length and are covered with fragrant white flowers up to 5 cm in diameter, collected in brushes of 3-10 pieces.
Steppe Rose or Prairie Rose
A resident of North America is able to form dense thickets and blooms large for wild rose, about 5-6 cm in diameter, dark pink flowers collected in a brush.
Climbing roses
Climbing garden roses include two groups that differ in appearance, use in landscape design and care requirements.
Small-flowered climbing roses
This group includes flowers with flexible arcuate rising or creeping shoots up to 5 m long. They definitely need support. Simple or double flowers are small, fragrant, 2-3 cm in diameter, usually collected in racemes. Flowering occurs on last year’s shoots. It is single, but plentiful and long. Plants of this group have good winter hardiness, but as you move north, they require more and more serious shelter.
Large-flowered climbing roses
Unlike the previous one, this group has more powerful stems about 2 m long. Tall and sprawling varieties require support, and varieties with powerful erect stems can do without it. These plants have large, clustered flowers with a diameter of more than 4 cm. New cultivars belonging to this group are very successful. They are quite winter-hardy, besides they bloom on the shoots of this year, therefore, flowering will not suffer if the stems are slightly frozen.
Systematics of climbing roses
The modern official taxonomy of climbing roses is only being formed, since some time ago these varieties lost their popularity and were slightly forgotten about. Now the fashion for them is experiencing an unprecedented rise since the second half of the last century. This is due to the emergence of fundamentally new, very beautiful, often re-blooming varieties and hybrids.
Rambler
Ramblers are actually the heirs of small-flowered climbing roses. Flexible shoots reach a length of 4-6 meters, they are usually formed on ropes, trellises, pergolas and other supports. They bloom on last year’s shoots with small simple or double flowers, collected in large inflorescences. Most often, flowering is single, but long and plentiful.
Variety “Felicity Perpetu”
famous hybrid. Small flowers of whitish-cream color with a pink tint are terry, contained in brushes up to 40 pcs. The rose is disease resistant and does not require much care. Tolerates some shade well.
Variety “Super Dorothy”
This variety opens buds late, but blooms until frost. Pink flowers are small, collected in brushes of 20-40 pieces.
Variety “Super Excelsa”
After an abundant first wave of flowering, inflorescences of raspberry flowers appear on the bush until the very frost, however, not so abundantly. Grows well in both hot and cool climates.
Roses of Cordes
This group combines numerous varieties of roses bred by the German company W. Kordes. They are by and large an improved version of ramblers and also bloom on last year’s shoots. But there are very significant differences:
- Bushes are more powerful;
- The length of the shoots is less, only 1,5-3,0 m;
- The flowers are much larger;
- Blooms repeatedly, often until frost.
Sometimes roses of this group are called semi-climbing.
Variety “Quadra”
This variety forms a bush up to 1,8 m high and 1,0 m wide. Large, up to 8 cm in diameter, collected in 2-4 or single flowers have a bright red color and a fruity aroma. A square-shaped glass. The variety is re-blooming, resistant to diseases, but requires good shelter.
Variety “Spring notes”
Variety of Crimean selection. It is a bush about 1,7 m high with thin shoots. Flowering – repeated, flowers are simple, large, up to 9 cm in diameter, collected in inflorescences of 6-15 pieces. The variety is resistant to wetting, pests and diseases.
Variety “Ilza Kron Superior”
It is a beautiful bush up to 2-3 meters high, up to 2 wide. White flowers with a very beautiful elongated glass up to 11 cm in size are terry, collected in brushes. It has increased resistance to all adverse factors, but requires mandatory support and forming pruning.
Climbers
Climbers are modern large-flowered climbing roses with thick, stiff stems. Their flowers are large, most often double or semi-double, with beautiful glasses. Flowering is repeated, abundant, on the shoots of this year. They are often formed in the form of columns, since it is much easier to tie them to a pole than to tie up and spread their powerful shoots along a figured support.
“Schwanenzi” variety
The bush is beautiful, neat, with long strong stems. Large double flowers are white, slightly pinkish in the middle, with a magnificent glass and a pleasant aroma. Flowering – plentiful, throughout the season. Unfortunately, this variety is prone to black spot disease.
Variety “City of York”
A variety characterized by very dense glossy leaves. It has large white semi-double flowers with a pronounced yellow center. It is highly resistant to diseases and is excellent for creating standard plants.
Variety “Bref of Life”
Incredibly beautiful and popular variety grown as a scrub. The length of the lashes usually does not exceed 2 m. Apricot-colored double flowers are suitable for cutting. Unfortunately, the variety is afraid of rain.
Climbing
If you live in central Our Country or to the north and want to grow climbing, be prepared that you will have to mess with it like a child – these are the most difficult roses to grow from all existing ones, and they also winter badly. This group appeared due to the bud mutation of varieties belonging to other groups. Of greatest interest, naturally, are mutations of hybrid tea varieties and floribunda rose varieties. It blooms the same number of times a year as the original variety on the shoots of this year. In retail chains, when selling climbings, letters are usually placed after the name of the variety, indicating that it is a climbing rose grown from a mutated bud.
Grade “Gloria Day” (Cl HT)
It is this famous hybrid tea rose that has become the most popular climbing. A large fragrant glass of classical shape is very beautiful and constantly changes color during flowering.
Variety “Ena Harkness” (Tea, Cl.)
Classic red hybrid tea rose. All summer long it blooms with fragrant densely double flowers with 26-40 petals.
Variety “Madame Julie Graverax” (ClHT)
An excellent hybrid tea rose that can be peach, red or pink in color. It has large flowers and a very pleasant aroma.
Conclusion
As you can see, modern varieties of climbing roses are very beautiful and able to decorate any area. Which of them to choose, how to form and where to place – you decide.
