Roses

Family: Rosaceae. Roses are a very difficult and demanding plant to grow. Roses, for example, like space. First, an individual plant is not cramped and attracts attention; second, crowding on the windowsill promotes roses being affected by diseases and pests. Roses require adherence to routines, and if you cannot follow them, your rose will live at best a year.

Roses do not tolerate dry air and high temperatures, especially in winter; as a result the leaves become smaller, dry out and fall off, buds do not form or flowering is short-lived. Roses like the soil to breathe, so you need to loosen the soil in the pot more often.



Light regime: Roses are light-loving plants. The best windows for roses are southeast and southwest. On south-facing windows it is too hot for roses in summer on very sunny days. On a sunny windowsill the rose flowers open quickly and fall off quickly. On north-facing windows roses do not get enough light. If in summer roses are taken out into the garden and planted in the ground together with their pots, they easily withstand even the strongest heat.

Fresh air: Roses are very demanding of fresh air. Therefore, when spring weather permits you should start opening windows and gradually accustom the roses to fresh air. In summer it is desirable to keep roses on the balcony, terrace, veranda or at an open window; you can take them out into the garden and sink the pots into the soil. Stale, stuffy air in rooms during summer greatly retards the growth and flowering of roses.

Watering: Roses are very sensitive to overwatering, especially in winter and spring at the onset of new growth. It is better to water roses a little less than to overwater them. In spring you can increase watering when the plants not only show young buds but have already unfolded a sufficient number of leaves. In summer roses require abundant watering. In spring and summer you must not allow the soil ball to dry out. Water for irrigation should be left to stand for at least a day. The water should be at room temperature or warmer. It is very harmful to roses if they are watered with cold water when the plant has stood for a long time on a sunny windowsill, i.e. the roots and soil in the pot have warmed. Approximately from mid-August, when the day length begins to decrease and autumn approaches, watering is reduced: it is sufficient but not as generous as in summer; this applies to varieties that bloomed throughout spring and summer. Varieties that began flowering in mid-summer are also watered abundantly, and watering is reduced when flowering ends.

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