Cultivating roses is a favorite pastime for many gardeners. Some already know what the love Lidia rose looks like, but most gardeners will probably hear about it for the first time. Therefore, the article below presents its description: botanical features, cultivation and care.
Grade description
Rose Lydia - a flower that belongs to the type of spray and the group of floribunda. The variety was bred from the Netherlands in 1995 for sale.
The bush itself is small (up to 60 cm in height, up to 50 in width), plentiful and lush. Flowers up to 5 cm in diameter are 10-12 buds in inflorescence. The color ranges from creamy pink to deep raspberry, and the aroma is delicate and pleasant, albeit weak. According to external data, she looks like a rose classic Lydia.
Rose Lovely Lydia
Grade Advantages:
- resistant to typical diseases of roses (late blight, powdery mildew, rot, spotting, rust);
- can be used both for cultivation in the garden, and for commercial purposes;
- resistant to frost;
- continuous flowering for a long time.
Disadvantages:
- often affected by pests (aphids, spider mites, thrips);
- with excessive scorching sun lose their color.
Use in landscape design
Rose Bush Lydia is actively used for planting in the foreground, decorating the site anywhere. In Russia, it is often grown as a border flower, and to complement compositions, for example, an alpine hill.
Types of roses Lydia in the planting
Flower growing
Like any other representative of this group, it is best to plant Love Lydia rose seedlings. The likelihood that it will take root and bloom, increases several times than when planted with seeds.
The flower can be planted both in autumn and spring. Before this, it is necessary to fertilize the soil with minerals: in the fall, so that the flower can winter, and in the spring, because the soil is weakened after winter. But it is best to do this in the spring to protect the plant.
It calmly tolerates the sun, but if it burns 24/7, this threatens to reduce the color intensity and possible drying out. In a constant shadow, the rose will also be normal, but with a moderate amount of sun, the flower opens to full. Therefore, it is better to choose a site where the sun will illuminate it for half a day. Thus, it will not be oversaturated, but there will also be no shortage of light.
Note! For better growth, you need to prepare a certain soil mixture. It is necessary to add sand, peat, humus, phosphorus-potash fertilizers there. A small amount of oak bark will benefit. Before planting, seedlings can be lowered into the mixture to stimulate root growth.
Landing procedure step by step:
- Dig a hole 40 × 40 × 40 cm.
- Pour prepared soil 30-35 cm into it.
- Plant seedlings.
- Bury, tamp.
- Water abundantly.
- You can mulch so that the moisture does not evaporate quickly.
Plant care
For this type of rose, there is no need to create a special watering schedule. It is enough to do this once a week, in especially hot weather you can increase it up to two times. It is worth doing in the morning or in the evening when there is no hot sun.
Important! You need to pour water under the root, and not on the leaves, because there is a chance to damage the greenery, which will receive sunburn.
Top dressing and soil quality
It is necessary to feed the soil with intensive flowering. This is done with mineral fertilizers. It would also be nice to mulch the soil with organic matter. You don’t need to take something special, you can use household plant waste (mowed grass from the lawn, sawdust, etc.), straw, tree bark (fruit), spruce branches, etc.
Pruning and transplanting
You need to trim the plant when dried leaves, buds, shoots appeared. It can also be done during the period of active growth to stimulate the growth of strong branches and buds. After flowering, it is necessary to cut off all the leaves and buds, reduce the length of the stems, and at the end of November cover the flower for wintering.
A transplant is done at any time, but better in the spring and summer. The transplant instructions are the same as when landing.
Important! When digging out, you should be careful so as not to damage the roots, otherwise the plant may die.
Features of wintering a flower
This flower is frost-resistant, but still it should be sheltered for the winter. This process does not differ in some features from the shelter of other roses. The procedure is carried out somewhere in October-November. First you need to fill up with soil (15-20 cm) and cover with fir spruce branches. If the frosts are forecasted too strong, then it is worth making a frame that is covered with polyethylene material.
Wintering roses
Flowering roses
Rosa Love Lydia blooms almost continuously from the end of May to September. From year to year, its flowering pleases with its abundance and beauty.
Important! During and after flowering, the plant will benefit from nutrition and special attention. If the soil under the bush dries quickly, it is worth increasing watering and shelter from the plentiful sun. With poor bush growth, weak buds need to fertilize the soil, etc.
Lack of flowering
If the Lovely Lydia rose is well rooted after planting, it rarely happens that it does not bloom. But, if this happened, you need to fertilize with phosphorus-containing fertilizers, water abundantly to create the most favorable conditions for growth.
Flower propagation
It is best to cut the rose from May to August. To do this, obliquely cut a twig with several pairs of leaves, put it in water until it forms a root system. It is advisable to lower it in the root solution for 2-3 hours. As soon as the roots appear, you need to plant the stalk in a pot with peat or sand. It is necessary to cover the sprout with plastic film and periodically open it for airing and remove accumulated condensate. When the shoot is strong, you can plant in the ground.
Diseases, pests and ways to combat them
The cause of disease or pest damage is improper or inadequate care of the plant. In this case, you need to look at the problem and eradicate it. If the plant dries up, it is worth watering more abundantly, if it fades, it means that the roots rot due to, on the contrary, excessive moisture, you need to reduce the amount of water introduced, if it does not bloom or grow poorly, then it is worth adding fertilizers, etc.
Rose Lovely Lydia
When overcoming a flower with pests (aphids, spider mites, thrips), it is necessary to treat the plant with an actellic, phytoverm, actar or intavir.
Rosa Lydia Lovely - a beautiful flower that will decorate the site of any gardener. She does not require special care, and everyone will admire her flowers.
