Roses were used as ornaments of garden plots and at ceremonies already several thousand years ago. Due to the variety of shades and varieties, these flowers are popular in decor around the world. One of the popular varieties is the Nostalgie variety.
Rosa Nostalgia
Also known as Nostalgia, Nostalgie, Nostalgia, La Garsonne, TANeiglat. The last two items are used by breeders.
Hybrid tea Nostalgia includes the characteristics of tea varieties - abundant flowering, strong aroma and features of repair roses - winter hardiness, disease resistance.
Rose flower
The flower is white with a red border around the edges of the petals. Border can be pronounced or blurry. The bud is spherical, large, the size can reach up to 10 cm. The height of the bush is up to 110 cm, the width is compact - up to 70 cm.
For reference! The variety was bred in France at the end of the 19th century and immediately gained popularity among gardeners.
The benefits include:
- winter hardiness of the variety - the bush is able to withstand a temperature drop of -29 degrees;
- disease resistance;
- immunity to temperature extremes;
- drought tolerance;
- flowering throughout the season.
Disadvantages:
- susceptibility to dampness;
- vulnerability to aphids.
In the design of the garden, the Nostalgia rose can be used both in single plantings and as a bright spot in a group design.
Nostalgia rose flower
Flower growing
A variety of roses Nostalgia planted in the ground seedlings. Rose is planted in the ground in early May, much later than snow melting and soil warming. You can also plant a seedling in early autumn, so that the plant has time to take root before the onset of frost.
Not a very sunny place is suitable for planting, because in the presence of very bright light the flowers will quickly fade. Also, one should not plant a plant in a lowland, without access of fresh air. Wet, shaded areas serve as a place of accumulation of pests and putrefactive bacteria.
Important!The rose should be slightly shaded to prevent burns to the petals. Plants planted in lowlands can be affected by fog.
Nostalgie is a rose that loves light soil, with good breathability. If clay soil is present on the site, it must be diluted with humus, sand, perlite. Too light soil is burdened with peat, clay.
Landing procedure step by step
The phased process of placing a new rose bush on the site looks like this:
- Dig a hole at least 60 cm deep.
- Fall asleep 10 cm with drainage.
- Then 10 cm organic fertilizer.
- Another 10 cm with unpaved soil.
- Put a bush in the pit, spreading the roots.
- They fill it with soil so that the root growth point is hidden underground, and the place of grafting of the rose bush is at a distance of 3 cm above the soil surface.
- Abundantly watered with water.
Waiting for a while. After the shrinkage of the earth they add it.
Plant care
If the plant is in heavy soils, it is better to reduce watering, otherwise there is a risk of root decay. In sandstones, moisture quickly goes away, you need to control watering more often. Water the bush with warm water, at the rate of 2 buckets per bush once a week. At the end of flowering, watering is stopped.
The soil should be weak acidity - pH = 5.6-6.5. Strongly acidic medium is diluted with dolomite flour, and weakly acidic enriched with peat, manure. They feed the rose with nitrogen fertilizer in the spring and in the second half of the summer with phosphorus and potassium. The soil is periodically loosened to give the roots an influx of fresh air.
The degree of pruning depends on what characteristics you want to get from the plant - abundant flowering or the formation of a bush. When they want to see an abundantly blooming rose on the plot, they do an average pruning, leave 5-7 buds on a branch.
To lighten the weight of the branches, surface pruning is performed. Cardinal removal of branches is carried out during the formation of the crown. The stem is cleaned of young growth, which will spoil the decorative appearance of the bush.
The transplant can be carried out in the spring, the rules are the same as when planting.
Note!The place of grafting the rose should be in the recess of the planting hole, i.e. below ground level. This is necessary to avoid freezing of the grafted plant.
Features of wintering a flower
Shelter the plant after steady frost. As the material used spruce branches.
In March, roses open slightly during the day. This is done to circulate fresh air and so that the kidneys do not open.
The stamped type of roses is covered over the entire height of the bush, not tilting to the ground.
Shelter of roses
Flowering roses
A young tea-hybrid seedling should not be loaded with flowers in the first year of life in the garden. You need to leave a few buds on the bush, let the fruits begin to tie. This will help give more flowering next year.
During flowering, care is the same as for other varieties of roses: you need to fertilize a seedling, monitor watering, remove dry branches and flowers. At the end of summer, preventive pruning of the bush is carried out, sick, damaged parts are removed.
What to do if it does not bloom? Among the causes of poor flowering may be poor top dressing roses, too abundant watering. It is also necessary to remove faded inflorescences, cut the crown.
Note!Rosa Nostalgia, as Russian-speaking owners sometimes call her, rarely shows waywardness. Most often, flowering still occurs. But its abundance and quality directly depend on good care.
Flower propagation
Propagate the rose by cuttings. Material is taken from strong branches on which there were flowers. As a rule, the preparation and planting of cuttings occurs in late summer.
The description of propagation by cuttings is similar to rooting of other plants in this way. A strong branch with a blooming bud is cut from the bush. Cut it into several parts, leaving 2-3 kidneys. Dip branches for a day in the root stimulator, plant in trays with soil to a depth of half the length of the cuttings. Cover the pot with foil and put in a warm, lit place for root sprouting.
Rooting cuttings of roses in pots
Among the common pests of Nostalgia roses, the aphid, which attracts young shoots of buds, is in the first place. They fight insects by spraying with insecticides. If the rose grows in moist, shaded areas, there is a risk of developing putrefactive bacteria. The processing method is fungicide solutions.
The variety of roses Nostalgia looks good on the site. The colorful colors of the flower attract attention from afar. Durability to diseases and compactness of the bush makes this variety desirable for cultivation by many gardeners.
