Climbing Rose

Family Rosaceae. Mostly these are shrubs 1–2 m high with erect or slightly drooping branches. There are species with very long stems that creep along the ground or cling to trunks and branches of neighboring plants, rising to considerable heights with their shoots.

Some grow as dense, low bushes — cushions, very decorative during flowering. Leaves are odd-pinnate, with elliptic or ovate, sharply serrated leaflets, with two leaf-like stipules partly fused to the base of the petiole. Flowers are large, fragrant, bisexual, solitary or in inflorescences. Flower size ranges from 1 to 12 cm in diameter. There are 5 sepals. The corolla has free petals, usually five obcordate heart-shaped petals of pink, red, deep raspberry, white or yellow color. Many stamens and numerous pistils are located along the inner wall of the concave receptacle. Sometimes wild roses have flowers with more than five petals, when some stamens or pistils transform into additional petals. Thus semi-double or double flowers appear. In some cases the number of petals can be very large (up to 180 in Rosa rugosa). Double flowers are generally larger and more decorative than simple ones.

These are easily cultivated plants, widely used in landscape architecture, in particular for creating soil-protecting plantings. They are drought-resistant and undemanding to soil conditions. Most species are light-loving, grow well on moderately moist, loamy soils, and poorly tolerate waterlogging. They are propagated by seeds and vegetatively — when cultivating so-called park roses, the most decorative species of wild roses and their garden forms with double flowers. Garden forms are also propagated by division of the bush, suckers, layering, stem and root cuttings; varieties of cultivated roses by grafting.

Wild roses, which gave rise to more than 200 thousand varieties of beautiful roses, have lived on Earth for almost 40 million years and a significant part of that time in companionship with humans. They have brought much good to people and, as a wonderful gift, the beautiful and fragrant, noble rose. However, wild roses are not inferior in beauty and aroma to many cultivated garden varieties. They deserve the widest use in greening our cities. Among the enormous diversity of ornamental plants, roses enjoy the greatest affection. Very few plants can compare with them in the richness of forms, flower coloration, fragrance, abundance and duration of flowering. The rose is one of the oldest cultivated plants. They have been grown since time immemorial. They please the eye, inspire vigor and play a considerable role in aesthetic education. The enormous variety of varieties and hybrids is widely used in park and garden design. Bush and standard — for flowerbeds and parterres, lining paths and in group plantings in the foreground; climbing species and varieties — for vertical greening. The variety of colors and flower structure, differing flowering times allow creating highly artistic, decorative compositions; moreover, they bloom at a time when most trees and shrubs have finished flowering, and the color palette of roses is inimitable.

Decorative cultivated varieties and forms of wild roses are grouped by common morphology and developmental characteristics. The groups most common in landscaping include: Park roses, Hybrid tea roses (HT), Polyantha roses, Roses of the floribunda group (Flor., F.), Roses of the grandiflora group, Miniature roses (Min.), Climbing roses, which are divided into climbing (Cl., R.), large-flowered climbers (Cl. Lg., LCI), Semiclimbing (Semi-cl., S.), Groundcover (Ground., Bod.). It is worth noting that among the smaller roses there are so-called patio roses. Their flowers are slightly larger than those of classic miniature roses, and the bushes can be 45–55 cm high. In the literature patio roses are either distinguished as a separate group or assigned to floribunda roses or to miniature roses. In addition to the group and variety of a rose, you need to choose the type that best suits your conditions: own-root or grafted.

Location: roses are warmth- and light-loving plants, so when planting choose an open, sunlit site protected from cold winds. Stagnation of cold air, as well as irrigation and meltwater or perched water, is unacceptable. The groundwater level should be no higher than 1–1.5 m. Excess moisture is removed using drainage devices.