Landscape design of the rose garden: ideas

Choosing a place, schemes

How to make a rose garden so that it delights with its beauty and creates the right mood? First you need to determine where to place it and what kind of mood it should create. Bright, lush roses create a sense of joy and celebration, which can be enhanced by plants with the appropriate scent. Planting such flowers can be met at the entrance to the site or delight the eye and heart in the middle of the lawn. Twisting roses curling along the facade can turn a country house into the home of a fabulous fairy. An arch of them can be arranged at the entrance to the courtyard, and you can also attach them to the hedge. More restrained aristocratic flower beds are created from ground cover plants or bushes of medium height, strictly matched in color. A completely different, romantic corner can be created by old English roses with a strong scent, among which a bench or a coffee table with chairs will bring great pleasure.

You need to think about how to make a rose garden in advance. Seedlings are planted in the fall, until that time you need to think over the combination of colors and varieties, create a scheme, find a place, prepare the soil. A rose garden cannot be organized anywhere. Roses love the sun, so you need to find a place where tall trees or buildings will allow the flowers to stay in the sun for at least 6 hours.

The most ideal location for the rose garden is when the sun shines 3-4 hours before lunch and the same after. If the landscape is not even, then for roses you need to choose a southern slope, otherwise the plants will grow one-sided, since they always reach for warmth. You need to choose a place or create a windless one, with fertile well-drained soil, neutral or slightly acidified. Light loam is suitable, on which water will not stagnate.

Another point that usually needs to be thought out before arranging any flower garden is the vantage point. If it is visible from one side, then the plants are arranged in growth in this way: in the background the tallest, and these can be old, climbing or standard roses, shorter bushes are planted in front of them, ground cover and miniature ones are placed in the foreground. If the flower garden is looked around from all sides, it turns out very effectively to grow a standard rose or curly roses in its center, resting on a special support.

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Selection of varieties

A common mistake, or rather a complete lack of design, which can ruin all beauty, is an attempt to plant beautiful specimens of rose bushes without thinking over their combination. Plants of similar color do not emphasize, but lubricate each other. It is better to choose contrasting colors or different, but harmoniously combined. The black earth between the plants most often looks like a mourning background.It is better to combine planting roses with other plants that will favorably set off their beauty and close the gaps between them. A flower bed, consisting of only roses, looks bad when they are not blooming, and in the cold season, only the material that covers them is visible. For these reasons, it is also a good idea to grow other crops next to roses.

There is a truly unthinkable number of varieties of roses, if you choose them wisely, you can create a unique design for your rose garden. It is important to remember that seedlings of specimens of similar color will lubricate the whole picture, therefore it is better to arrange planting of different, even better contrasting colors, and make sure that tall varieties of roses do not shade their undersized relatives.

Shrubs, or half-leafed, roses are both low ground cover and high, they are used for mixborders, or are planted in single bushes among the lawn. Flowers of English roses (also referred to as scrubs) resemble peonies of the most incredible colors. Their compact shrubs are often used in different types of rose gardens. They, like French varieties, bloom repeatedly, which is very convenient for landscape design.

Before proceeding with the selection of varieties, you need to decide on the color range and height of growth. Only after that, you can choose varieties, having studied very carefully the description of their adult plants. If it is very difficult to choose varieties on your own, you can first buy a set of seedlings already formed for one flower garden. Or find suggested listings of varieties on the Internet, but there may be inaccuracies due to the fact that any variety may be difficult to find.

Formation of the rosary

Rose seedlings are best planted in autumn, so preparation of a place for a rose garden should be started in summer. The soil is dug to a depth of 60 cm, fertilizers are applied to it - it can be humus (compost, peat), ammonium nitrate, potassium chloride and superphosphate. A couple of months after that, you do not need to touch the ground, it will settle, the fertilizers will be distributed, the soil will be ready for the autumn planting. If the soil is very heavy, it should be mixed with peat or compost at a higher concentration than just for nutrition. You can add rotted sawdust. It is important that the groundwater does not run too close.

When the time comes for planting seedlings, it is necessary to dig holes 50 cm deep, according to the rosary scheme. It is good if this diagram is printed on a sheet of paper and you can always check with it. Before planting seedlings, their roots are moistened, broken roots are cut off, the above-ground part is also better to cut a little. Plants need to be kept so that the roots look vertically down, lower them into the prepared holes, carefully sprinkle with nutritious soil, lightly tamp.

Between miniature dwarf roses, 40 - 50 cm are left.Between low hybrid tea roses there should be a gap of up to 100 cm, between standard and slowly growing climbing roses - 115 cm, and tall park roses, weeping standard and fast growing weaving roses are planted after 1.5 meters. Only after planting all the roses can you start planting neighbors - other flower garden plants.

After planting, the plants are well watered and covered with peat or sawdust so as to hide all the shoots. In the spring, overwintered roses are pruned a little more, sprinkled with peat. When planting a standard rose tree, a wooden stake is dug in next to it on the leeward side and a rose is tied to it. This will protect it from strong winds and rains. The soil in the rose garden is often mulched; it is advisable to do this in the spring, when the plants overwinter well.

Roses in landscape design

The design of flower beds can be very diverse, but there are two main types: regular, also called parterre, and landscape. A regular rose garden assumes clear boundaries of planting. Moreover, these borders are necessarily decorated with stone, plastic or vegetable borders.The flower beds have geometric shapes that can be seen even along the upper border - the height of the roses is the same or with some kind of accent that is clearly subordinate to the overall design.

Landscape type rosaries are distinguished by a freer design. A wide variety of types and varieties of roses can be used here, planting seedlings should give the impression of natural thickets. Mixed beds suggest the presence of other plants, it can be ground cover, creating a background, or tall conifers that contrast in color with roses.

A structural rose garden, as an option for a landscape type, can occupy a large area. Inside it, paths and paths are assumed, making it possible to get closer to a particular plant. Another variant of this type is landscape. It is designed to emphasize the natural beauty of the place - different levels are emphasized by lush or, on the contrary, lonely plantings of roses and other plants. Here natural or created landscape highlights, slides, lowlands, reservoirs are played up.

A rose in landscape design is always a queen, it should be the most noticeable, all other plants play the role of a retinue. Therefore, among them there should not be lush and bright ones that can divert attention from the prima. Do not plant peonies, delphiniums, gladioli nearby. Herbaceous plants of light, gray, bluish, silver or dark green color are perfect. Hosts, junipers, sage - perfectly set off the beauty of roses.

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