Very often among novice agronomists the question arises: what kind of roses is best to choose so that the plant has beautiful flowers, but also does not require much effort to grow? A great thrill is the Morden Centennial rose, bred in Canada. The following describes why this variety should be chosen, its advantages and features of care.
Rosa Morden Centennial - what kind of variety is this, the history of creation
Canadian rose Morden Centennial is a cold-resistant variety. It was created in 1980 by the breeders of the Henry Marshall organization.
Rose Canadian Park Moden Centennial: a brief description, description
The flowers have a bright raspberry color. Over time, the shade dims, because the petals fade in the sun. The flowers of roses are characterized by terry.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The main features of this variety include cold resistance and good resistance to pests, unpretentiousness, beautiful appearance and fairly long flowering.
Roses Morden Centennial
Regarding the shortcomings, one can distinguish one significant one - the appearance of black spots, if you do not follow all the necessary rules of agricultural technology.
Moden Centennial Rose: Use in Landscaping
This species is also used for decoration because of its raspberry flowers. Beautiful hedges are created from them, borders are decorated. It is common to plant fashionable Canadian roses in the very center of a large flower bed. If you design arbors, it is better to use climbing varieties of plants, such as Cuthbert Grant or John Cabot.
Growing a flower, how to plant in open ground
The place needs to be prepared. Dig a special landing pit, adding peat, compost and other mixtures there. It is customary to deepen the vaccine by 4-5 centimeters.
In what form is landing
It is advisable to buy a seedling that has been grafted in advance and plant it in a well-lit area. Also, the place should be well ventilated, however, strong gusts of wind are unacceptable.
What time is the landing
It is recommended to plant the roses in April or May, so that the plant has time to take root before the start of frost.
Rose Morden Centennial
Location selection
Rosa Morden Centennial should be located on a hill, because moisture does not accumulate there, and there are no strong gusts of wind. Due to excess water, various fungal diseases may appear, which will lead to decay of the root system.
How to prepare the soil and flower for planting?
To do this, add a certain amount of various natural additives to the dug hole, such as peat, ash or compost. It is also worth mentioning that the bush will need to be regularly watered and also fertilized.
Landing procedure step by step:
- first we dig a hole, the depth of which is 60 cm, filling up fertile soil there;
- lower the seedling so that the root neck is 2-3 cm lower than the ground level, spreading the roots;
- fill the seedlings with earth, and then water and mulch peat.
Note! Before planting, the root must be freed from long and diseased parts of the root.
Plant care
Despite the fact that the plant is notable for its unpretentiousness, it still needs to be provided with proper care. Otherwise, roses can catch the disease, losing all its beauty.
Three flowers
Irrigation rules and humidity
As mentioned earlier, excess humidity negatively affects it, however, with a lack of water, a rose can also become sick. In hot weather, the plant must be regularly watered abundantly, especially during feeding. To allow drying of the soil is unacceptable.
Fertilizing and soil quality
Regarding plant nutrition, it is worth remembering the following: nitrogen should be carried out in the spring, and phosphorus-potassium preparations should be used in the summer. Also, during planting, peat or compost will need to be added to the soil. Fertilize the rose after the first wave of flowering.
Pruning and transplanting
Remove spoiled, frozen or dried up shoots in early spring. If you cut the plants in the fall, then the Morden Centennial rose can begin to grow in November. The transplant is necessary to perform in pre-prepared soil.
Note! Regular cutting of already faded flowers helps new ones to grow, so this procedure must be performed.
Features of wintering a flower
During the first wintering, it is necessary to spud the base of the plant (about 15-20 centimeters high) with a mixture of earth and sand to make sure. In the following winters, this procedure is not necessary.
Flowering roses
Unlike other rose varieties, the Morden Centennial can bloom profusely for many weeks if properly managed.
Period of activity and rest
This plant variety can bloom for six weeks, starting from the first days of June. This is the first wave of flowering. After it, the flowers fall, and abundantly begin to appear only during the second flowering wave.
Care during and after flowering
During the appearance of flowers, the bush must be regularly and abundantly watered so that the earth does not have time to dry out. After flowering, cut off all damaged areas of the plant that do not give inflorescences. And all places of cuts will need to be treated with a special garden decoction.
Morden Centennial Growing
What to do if it does not bloom, possible causes
The reasons why the rose may not bloom:
- wrong landing place. This variety must be planted in a higher area so that a lot of moisture does not collect;
- improper care. If you do not feed and do not water it enough, the rose may not bloom;
- First year. Flowering also depends on the state of the seedling. In this case, you need to continue to care for the plant, and next year it will bloom.
Other causes include improper pruning and a bacterial burn.
Flower propagation
Propagation of this variety of plants occurs using cuttings or dividing the bush.
When produced
Reproduction of Morden Centennial roses is carried out in the summer, so that the cuttings have grown enough and get stronger before the onset of cold weather.
Roses Morden Centennial
Detailed description
Below will be a description of the cultivation of roses by cuttings.
Around the middle of summer, cut green cuttings. Next, when the right time comes, you should do the following:
- dig a hole, rolling the top layer of the earth;
- bury the cuttings in the soil into which compost buckets and fertilizers were added in advance;
- close cuttings with newspaper bags to protect from the sun. It is also necessary to use miniature greenhouses from bottles;
- after a certain time, you need to cut off the buds from the cuttings (if they appeared) and fill it with soil for autumn and winter;
- remove the whole earth in spring.
Note! It is necessary to harvest cuttings after the very first flowering, because at this time the stems are young and strong.
Diseases, pests and ways to combat them
There are many diseases of roses, however, most plants are black spotted. Spots appear in the summer during hot and humid weather, and if the plant has an insufficient potassium content, then the leaves begin to turn yellow, fall prematurely.
In order to rid the roses of the fungus, it is necessary to find and cut off all the damaged leaves and burn them, and treat the bush with a special solution.
Black spotting
Among the pests can be noted spider mites, which lives on the underside of the leaves and forms a web there. This leads to the fact that the foliage turns yellow, and then crumbles.
To get rid of pests, you should collect all the affected leaves that fell before that, and then burn them. The bush itself will need to be treated with insecticides (three times for every 5-7 days).
As mentioned earlier, roses are disease resistant, so with proper care, the flowers can remain healthy.
Rose Canadian park Morden Centennial will be an excellent choice for beginners and more advanced agronomists, because this plant variety has excellent external data, is unpretentious and cold-resistant, which does not allow the rose to die during frosts.
