At what distance to plant roses from each other

Florists who dream of growing their own rose garden often do not know at what distance to plant roses from each other. Meanwhile, due to the tightness, the bushes weaken, grow poorly and stop blooming, so they need a lot of free space.

Roses in landscape design

Beautiful roses often play a major role in landscaping. These flowers can be used to grow amazing compositions in parks, gardens, rose gardens, rockeries. They are used to decorate gazebos, fences, walls of buildings, arches. They are grown on scrubs, trellises, pergolas, planted near curbs.

Ground cover roses on the site

The fantasy of flower growers and designers is truly limitless. But they must always remember the needs of the plant and strictly observe the required distance between the rose bushes when planting. It depends on the size and characteristics of the flower variety.

Planting, most often, is carried out in the spring, so by this time you need to know exactly the specifics of the plants intended for the composition.

Hedge covered with roses

A variety of roses in terms of appearance and cultivation characteristics

Roses are very diverse. Many species, types, varieties of these beautiful flowers are known.

Biologists and florists distinguish several main groups:

• Polyanthus are low, dense bushes without thorns with many small flowers. Flowering continues until frost.
• Park - old decorative varieties, bloom early, but not for long. Winter hardy, have a very strong aroma.
• Garden - old varieties of white or pale pink flowers.
• Repaired - large and fragrant buds, bloom several times a year.
• Hybrid tea - a hybrid of remontant and Chinese tea roses. They bloom long and luxuriantly. They are thermophilic and need shelter for the winter.
• Groundcover - shrubs with long creeping shoots. They bloom long and luxuriantly.
• Floribundas are tall bushes with large flowers. They appeared as a result of crossing polyanthus and hybrid tea varieties. They bloom profusely, for a long time and continuously. Faded buds fall off, and young petals appear in their place.
• Grandiflora - appeared after crossing hybrid tea and floribunda. The flowers are large in size, bloom long and luxuriantly.
• Miniature - small garden varieties. They grow up to 40 cm in height. Double flowers can appear from spring to late autumn.
• Climbing - fast-growing creeping shoots with small flowers, collected in large inflorescences. Related species are semi-vine and curly.
• Shrubs are tall shrubs that bloom once a year.

Pink bushes in the flowerbed

Rules for planting roses in the open field, what distance should be between the bushes

The distance between roses when planting in the ground depends on several factors:

• bush growth;
• features of caring for him;
• the specifics of the place chosen for planting (is it well illuminated by the sun, how fertile the soil, etc.).

Landscape compositions must be made in accordance with the types and varieties of flowers. In landscape design, the distance between roses plays an important role. When flowers are crowded, they lack air and nutrients, and infections spread with lightning speed.

Ground cover roses

Among the ground cover varieties, there are creeping, weeping and erect. Their bushes are very dense, but they grow at different rates. Ground cover flowers can be used to decorate a terrace, a gazebo, a wall of a house, or to break a flower bed out of them.

To grow a dense carpet of flowers, leave 60–80 cm between the plants. Tall and weeping roses are planted at a distance equal to half their height. Spreading low bushes can be planted at a distance of 40-60 cm from each other.

The distance between the creeping rose bushes depends on the growth rate of the shoots. The faster the branches grow, the further the bushes should be from each other. Therefore, 1 meter is left between strong-growing ones, and 40-60 cm between weak-growing ones.

Climbing and curly roses

Curly roses for wall decoration

A hedge of flowers looks very beautiful. The walls of the house and gazebos, fences and arches can be decorated with climbing plants. Curly and climbing roses look especially luxurious. Their shoots grow rapidly and wrap themselves around the objects on which they are fixed.

Semi-climbing and climbing varieties have long branches (1.5–5 m), capable of hanging from a support or creeping along the ground. Climbing shoots are even longer - up to 5–15 m. They grow more intensively. It is advisable to plant both of these species in groups near a support or branches of large trees.

To decorate the wall of a gazebo or an arch, one bush of a climbing or climbing rose is enough. To create a hedge, you can plant 4-5 bushes. Between strong-growing varieties, an interval of 3-5 meters should be left, and between weak-growing varieties - 2 m.

Bush roses

Floribunda, grandiflora, park, hybrid tea, polyanthus species, as well as some varieties of ground cover and climbing flowers are most often grown as bush.

When growing single bushes, you need to leave 3 meters between them. If a grower wants to plant a hedge, then the distance between the rose bushes should be half their height.

Shrub roses look very impressive

For example, all rose bushes in a hedge will grow up to 2 m, then 1 m is left between them.

Flowerbed roses

Flower beds include polyanthus and hybrid tea species, as well as floribunda. These flowers can be grown in small groups in a flower bed.

Depending on the intensity of shoot growth, flower bed varieties are divided into two large groups. Strong-growing varieties should be planted at a distance of 40-60 cm from each other, and weak-growing varieties - at 30-40 cm.

Stamp, cascading roses

Standard and cascading roses are grown by grafting. A stalk of a climbing or miniature rose is grafted onto a strong rosehip stem 40–90 cm high.

Cascade varieties differ from standard varieties in that a stalk of a climbing or ground cover rose with long curly shoots hanging down is grafted onto a stem with a height of 140 cm. Some growers use hybrid tea and floribunda.

It is advisable to plant standard and cascading varieties one by one, and not in groups. If the florist decided to grow them in rows, then a distance of 3 meters must be observed between the standard flowers, and 3-5 meters between the cascading ones.

Rose bush in the form of a trunk

The universal rule of distance between roses

There is no universal rule to help you figure out how far to plant roses. It all depends on the size of the bush and the characteristics of caring for it.

Growing roses on supports

It often happens that a rose bush grows from a seedling much larger than expected. Therefore, it is advisable to leave more free space. There should be enough space to bend the bush to the ground and cover it for the winter. In other words, the distance between the rose bushes should be appropriate for their height.

The tightness will destroy any plants, so they must be planted at a sufficient distance from each other. The length of these spaces can vary depending on the size of the bush and the growth rate of its branches.