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The beauty of annual flowers lies not only in their beauty, but also in the fact that new flower beds are made from them every year, because there is nothing permanent in the world. It’s a completely different thing with perennials, no matter how beautiful they are, sometimes you want to change their location, even luxurious roses periodically want to change or just change the design of the flower garden. This is where the transplantation of roses appears on the agenda. When to transplant roses to another place, and is it possible to do this? Of course, it is possible to transplant roses to a new place, but you need to know when and how to do it so as not to harm the vulnerable beauty.
Reasons for transplant
There may be several reasons for changing the place where the rose grows, except for the whim of the owner. If the rose garden has been in one place for many years, the soil under it is depleted, and pests, on the contrary, become more and more persistent every year, and diseases are more and more difficult to prevent or cure at the very beginning. This reason is not so respectful as natural, which underlies the law of crop rotation.
People are constantly improving something on their plots, during redevelopment it may turn out that the rose fell into the shadow of the building or the tree in the neighborhood has grown so much that it covered the flowers from the sun. It is easier to transplant, of course, a rose.
Rose bushes also have a habit of growing, so it turns out that a few years after planting, you need to dig out the entire bush or part of it so that the flower garden continues to exist. Or, as a result of an illness, you have to throw out a bush in order to save all other plants, and then a new adult rose will need to be planted in its place.
It may be that in two years it becomes clear that the wrong place was chosen for the queen of flowers, and if she is not transferred to another, she will die. And it happens that the ants settled nearby, they got tired of fighting aphids, which they always drag to the site, so the owners think how to transplant a rose, choosing the lesser of the evils.
There may be several reasons, but the result is the same – you have to think about when it is better to transplant roses in order to get a good result, and not just the owner’s chores and stress to the plant.
Video “Correct transplant”
From the video you will learn how to properly transplant the bushes.
When is the best time to transplant
Roses are transplanted at approximately the same time as young seedlings are planted in the ground. In the spring, they do this before the buds awaken, but the earth should not only thaw, but warm up enough to accept a new plant.
Probably, it will be late with flowering, or maybe it does not need to be allowed to bloom, the buds should be removed so that the bush gets stronger in a new place, first forms an updated root system, forms new shoots. Transplanting a rose in the spring, we do not limit her time, the entire growing season is ahead.
Transplanting roses in autumn to another place should take place 3-4 weeks before frost, the bush should take root, grow new roots, only then will it winter well. It is best to transplant roses in autumn where October brings frosts, it is best in September, and in the south they do it in mid-October.
Autumn transplantation is good because the temperature of the earth and air is optimal for quick survival: the sun no longer burns, but the air is warm, the soil is quite humid, even autumn rains will not hurt, but will help the roots adapt to new conditions. The plant no longer needs to bloom or form new shoots, it can give all its strength to growing new roots.
The least acceptable time to change habitat is summer. But circumstances may arise that you will have to urgently replant an adult rose even in summer. This can be done, but it will take a little more effort, and the result will be less predictable compared to the beginning and end of the growing season. It will be difficult not only to transfer the rose, but to create conditions for it for the first time – you will have to cover it from the sun, moisten it more often, or, on the contrary, cover it from excessive rain. But nothing is impossible – even a rose may well take root in a new place in the middle of summer, if the transplanted bush receives enough care.
How to transplant
You can transplant a rose in autumn or spring, but the main thing is to choose a good place and create conditions that she likes, which will contribute not only to rapid adaptation, but also to comfortable growth and development. It is advisable not to place the plant under the wall of the house, so that water from the roof does not flow onto it, and the roots do not rest against the foundation. A young tree planted nearby will soon become a source of great shade, and a too wet lowland will destroy the roots when it becomes a refuge for melt water. The new place should be at least as good as the old one – sunny, open on the south side, protected from the north wind, slightly elevated. This may be the southern slope, it is important that the sun hits it in the first half of the day, and the water does not linger.
Whenever the transplant itself takes place, the pit must be prepared two weeks before. It needs to be dug a little wider and deeper than the intended root system, along with an earthen clod. It is believed that the roots occupy an area outlined by the width of the aerial part of the bush. This is what you should focus on when preparing a new hole. After digging it, you need to clear the ground of stones, roots of perennial weeds, too coarse clods of earth. Then the bottom is loosened, and the earth is mixed with fertilizers, it is good to add compost or humus, some mineral fertilizers and wood ash. If the soil is dry, then it should be watered so that the fertilizer mixes well with the soil. This is how the prepared pit should stand for at least 2 weeks.
When the time comes for the transplant itself, you need to prepare burlap, a thick film or some other material for transporting a huge earthy clod with a plant, as well as scrap that will help get it. Along the perimeter of the bush, even slightly stepping aside from the most sprawling shoots, you need to dig a groove the width of a spade bayonet. Gradually deepening this groove, you need to dig the entire bush to the desired depth. In grafted roses, the root has the shape of an inverted pyramid with a dominant stem; it can grow up to one or even one and a half meters deep. In self-rooted plants, the roots spread more in width, and grow up to 50 – 80 cm in depth. This should be borne in mind when digging up a plant.
Most likely, it will not be possible to dig up a bush so as not to damage a single root. It’s not scary, you just need to try to minimize losses, small roots will grow back in a new place. When the bush is dug enough to remove it, the shoots need to be shortened (especially if it happens in the fall), cut out all the flowers and weak branches, and carefully tie the remaining ones to facilitate further manipulations. Then you can use an iron crowbar as a lever, get the root together with an earthen clod, transfer it to a cloth (or film), transfer it to a new place. If there is a long transportation, then you need to moisten the fabric together with the ground.
Then the bush is placed in a new hole, they make sure that the root neck is 3–8 cm below ground level, the roots are gradually buried, the ground is tamped, watered, covered with earth higher or mulched with peat (possible with compost).
If the bush cannot be taken out with an earthen clod, which may well happen, since the earth under the roses is usually loose, then the roots must be inspected, damaged or rotten (dried out), slightly shortened before planting. The appearance of the roots and the whole plant will tell you whether decontamination is necessary. If necessary, the roots can be treated with a solution of potassium permanganate or iron sulfate.
Landing can be done dry or wet. In the first case, prepared soil is poured into the bottom of the pit, the bush is lowered to the desired depth (the level of the root collar is monitored relative to the ground level), the roots are straightened and the earth is carefully covered. Then the soil around the bush is tamped, watered. The bush is mulched. In the second case, a bucket of water is first poured into the pit with a drug dissolved in it that stimulates root growth. Then they lower the bush to the desired depth, cover the roots with prepared soil, tamp, water, and mulch.
After planting, the shoots are untied, the bush is mulched. At first, it will have to be shaded from too strong sun, often moistened with warm water. If planting took place in the fall, they no longer do re-pruning before sheltering for the winter.
Video “Transplant in the fall”
From the video you will learn how best to transplant rose bushes in autumn.
