Rose Ashram - description of a re-flowering culture
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The success of a rose variety largely depends on the shade of the petals. Confirmation of this is the hybrid tea rose with the intriguing Indian name Ashram. This delicately colored flower is very popular in Russia, becoming an adornment of many garden plots.
Description of the variety and history of creation
The Ashram variety, bred by German breeders in 1998, belongs to the group of hybrid tea. The name of this rose is directly related to its color, which has the meaning of holiness in India. In ancient times, in this eastern country "ashrams" were called the abodes of hermits and sages, who were traditionally ordered to wear robes of yellow-orange shades.
Rose Flower Ashram
Ashram bushes rarely grow more than 70 cm in height. They have strong, dense straight stems, leaves are large, slightly elongated, rich green color. The buds are lush, with tight-fitting petals. When blooming, the flowers can reach 9-16 cm in diameter, thanks to the bending petals, they acquire the effect of lace.
Ashram Hybrid Tea Rose can range in color from peach-orange to copper-brick shades with all possible undertones, approaching pink by the time of wilting. Flowers can be single or collected in inflorescences of 3-5 pieces, which do not fade for a long time in the cut. The aroma is delicate and light.
The advantages of the variety include:
- excellent decorative qualities;
- relative unpretentiousness and frost resistance;
- flowering duration;
- re-bloom with proper care.
Rose Ashram fits harmoniously into any landscape style. Its bloom will favorably emphasize the emerald green lawn or contrasting colors of other perennials. It goes well with decorative conifers and cereals as part of mixborders. Suitable for decorating flower beds and hedges.
Ashram in landscape design
Growing a flower
A favorable place for growing the Ashram rose variety will be a well-lit, elevated area with sufficient air circulation. This arrangement will prevent the appearance of diseases and insect pests on the plant.
Step-by-step description of landing:
- Having chosen a landing site, prepare a hole 60 cm deep.
- Cover the bottom of the pit with a drainage layer of 10 cm.
- Pour a heap of fertile soil mixed with organic fertilizers.
- Lower the roots of the seedling into the hole and carefully place it on a hill of earth.
- Cover the roots with earth, deepening the root collar by 5 cm.
- Seal the landing site.
- Sprinkle a ring of earth around the seedling.
- Pour about 1-2 buckets of non-cold water under the bush.
- Cover the earthen circle with mulch.
The seedlings are transferred to open ground when the temperature of the earth reaches 12-15 degrees Celsius. At 1sq.m. place up to 4-5 plants. The soil is selected loamy, loose, light, nutritious, with slightly acidic ph. If the soil does not meet these requirements, then it can be improved by adding humus, vermicompost, compost, peat.
Plant care
The variety needs the most common care: timely watering, weeding, fertilizing with fertilizers, loosening and mulching the soil under the bush, autumn and spring pruning of the bush, removal of faded inflorescences.
Watering is required regularly, but in moderation, since Ashram is a rose that does not tolerate waterlogging. With the arrival of spring, the plants are fed with nitrogen fertilizers, in the summer with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, which contribute to abundant flowering.
Rose Ashram Care
Spring pruning of bushes that have wintered in the open field consists in removing dry, frozen shoots and shortening the stems. Preparing the plant for winter, the branches are slightly pruned. In the first year, it is recommended to remove all buds that form before the end of summer so that the bush has the opportunity to get stronger. With the arrival of August, it is allowed to leave 1-2 flowers on each shoot so that the plant overwinters better and prepares for the lush flowering of the next year.
Blooming rose
Hybrid Tea Ashram belongs to the re-flowering varieties. Flowering can begin from the end of May and continue until the October frost. Fully opened flowers remain on the bush for a long time.
In early spring, when the risk of frost has passed, the plant should be pruned. If autumn pruning was carried out, then it is enough to cut 5-10 cm. In any case, the length of young shoots should be 20-30 cm. Also, flowering depends on the introduction of organic fertilizers. After flowering is complete, the shoots are cut almost to the very roots, then in the autumn-winter period the plant will be able to direct all its forces to strengthen the root system.
What if the Ashram is not blooming? Typically, this problem does not arise if the standard care guidelines described above are followed. By adhering to these rules, you can expect a long, abundant flowering from this variety.
Flower propagation
To maintain the characteristics of the variety, the Ashram should only be propagated vegetatively, like most hybrids. Cuttings are cut from young healthy bushes after the first wave of flowering ends. Root them in the usual way, placing them in the ground and covering them with a transparent jar.
Rose cuttings
Diseases, pests and ways to control them
Errors in caring for a rose of the Ashram variety or the wrong choice of place can provoke the occurrence of fungal diseases: powdery mildew, rust, chlorosis. For the purpose of prophylaxis and to combat them, fungicidal, copper-containing preparations are used.
Pests that can be encountered are rose-colored aphids, leaf rollers, spider mites. In this case, spraying with insecticides is carried out several times with an interval of 5-7 days.
The neat compact bushes of the Ashram variety can be a real discovery for the gardener who takes up growing it. Despite the presence of some difficulties in leaving, its abundant long flowering fully pays for all the efforts made.
