Rose Eyes for You is considered unusual and rare. Wide petals can be confused with the flowers of a tree peony, but the thorns on the shoots will suggest that it is a rose. This flower is beautiful in a single posaka, but it can also be planted in the rose garden along with other varieties of roses Larissa, Jeanne Moreau, Burgundy Ice, used to decorate landscape compositions. Suitable for cultivation in different climatic regions.
Variety history, short description
Ice for yu is a rose bred by the English breeder Peter James, who crossed two varieties - the Persian rose and the Blue for you variety. The new hybrid mesmerizes with amazing color. Unopened buds - cream tone with a dark lilac top. The blossoming flower of Ice fo Yu is the most delicate shade of lavender tone, its center is bright red, the middle is yellow, from which black stamens rise.
Beauty Ice Fo Yu
Additional Information! Poets and painters select the most beautiful words to describe the flower of Ice Fo Yu, comparing it with the dancing of flowers at dawn, with the flight of a tropical moth. The aroma in which the smells of citrus and rose oil are mixed is admirable.
Stems have straight vertical shoots that can reach a height of one and a half meters. They are covered with bright green glossy leaves that hide under floral brushes consisting of 7 buds.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
Gardeners call many of the positive qualities of the roses Ice Fo Yu, the main among which is the unique color scheme. Other advantages:
- A specimen can bloom not only in the sun, but also in partial shade.
- It blooms continuously and abundantly throughout the summer season.
- The variety is very resistant to major diseases - powdery mildew and black spotting.
- In leaving Rose Eyes for You is unpretentious.
Important! Dried roses need to be cut so that the plant does not waste strength on ripening fruits.
Among the negative points can be noted the need for shelter for the winter in areas with a cold climate, but if you carefully shelter the plant, it will suffer severe frosts. The second drawback is called by gardeners of the southern latitudes - the continuous fall of the petals during flowering and the burning of flowers in the sun.
Variety Ice in the garden
Growing Rose Ice
Many gardeners consider the beauty with the exotic name Ice as an unpretentious plant, but she is very demanding on the place. The plant should be well lit by the diffused rays of the sun.
Note! The rose bush does not tolerate the close passage of groundwater.
About the propagation of a rose bush
The easiest way to plant a new specimen is to buy a grafted stalk in a specialized store. You can try to grow a rose Drift cuttings:
- In early spring, cut healthy shoots. Cutting length - 20 cm.
- Wrap the cuttings with newspaper, doused with water and put in the cellar. After about a month, the cuttings should take root.
- Now you should plant the cuttings in open ground, cover them with plastic bottles and periodically water.
Many gardeners try to propagate the rose by layering. This process is autumn:
- parallel to the selected branch, dig a trench;
- bend the branch to the ground, fix it;
- fill the trench with earth.
Important! In this state, layering is until spring. With the onset of warm days, if the root system is well developed, the seedling can be planted in a new place.
Landing procedure step by step
A step-by-step instruction will help a novice gardener to plant a rose bush:
- Prepare a square hole: the side of the square should be 60 cm, the depth of the hole should be 50-60 cm.
- Trim all the roots of the seedling and place it in the composition to enhance growth and root formation.
- To prepare the soil composition: the soil from the hole is mixed with sand and organic fertilizers.
- Remove the plant from the solution, place it in the pit so that the root graft protrudes above the ground
- Having straightened all the roots, the seedling should be covered with earth, gradually tamping the soil.
- Carefully water the bush until the water no longer goes deep.
- Form a trunk circle, mulch the moist soil.
It remains to wait until the leaves begin to appear on the shoots of the new rose.
Rose propagation
Plant care
When caring for a variety, several rules must be observed.
Watering
A rose is watered when it is not lit by the rays of the sun. She needs abundant watering once a week, with dry weather - 2-3 times.
Top dressing
The rose needs to be fed in early spring, during the formation of buds and after flowering. It should not be fed with mineral fertilizers before wintering, because young shoots will not have time to get stronger.
Pruning
This procedure is carried out in the spring. At the same time, weak shoots are cut to 3-4 buds, strong are shortened to 15 cm.
Winter preparations
Before the onset of frost, the soil around the bush needs to be dug up, put ash, spud the plant and cover with dry grass, spruce branches, sawdust. In snowy areas you can not hide Ice for Yu: a thick snow cover will warm the beauty in winter.
Additional Information! Many gardeners do not let the rose grown in the first year to bloom. At the end of summer, several flowers are left on each branch to give seeds. Such shoots mature well and in the new spring delight with abundant flowering.
Flowering roses
Eyes for you rose is considered a continuously flowering rose. With the onset of summer, the bush is covered with pale lilac flowers. After a while, the petals of some buds fall off, but others blossom immediately. The beauty shows her flowers only on sunny days, with the onset of night she hides them.
So that abundant flowering does not stop before the onset of cold weather, you need to take care of the rose bush:
- loosen the soil;
- cut dried flowers;
- systematically water the plant.
Why Ice fo Yu does not give flowering
This variety is sometimes called a chameleon. Its flowering depends on growing conditions: weather, soil composition, location and lighting. If one of them is violated, then the rose will not bloom:
- Rosa Ice for Yoo - a child of the sun, in the cloudy and rainy summer of abundant flowering, the gardener will not wait.
- If the pink bush does not have enough light, for example, trees growing nearby, cover the branches of the rose with a shadow - it will not bloom.
- If you do not feed the rose with fertilizer, then it will stop throwing buds.
Watering roses
Note! It is not recommended to feed the plant during flowering. This process must be performed before the buds open and immediately after the last petals have fallen.
Given these features, you can achieve annual abundant flowering.
A few words about rose diseases
Like all plants, the Aes pho rose may become ill. The causes of the disease can be:
- rains that have become protracted;
- excessively dry summers;
- thickened rosary;
- lack of sunlight;
- untimely removal of weeds.
Queen of flower beds
The list of common rose diseases is as follows:
- Powdery mildew develops in wet weather and covers white leaves, buds with white bloom. Control measures include emulsion treatment of copper sulfate. You can try a folk remedy - a nettle broth.
- The causative agent of black spotting is activated with a lack of potassium. The harbinger of the disease is brown spots on the upper surface of the leaf. Saves the plant by spraying with a weak solution of foundationazole.
- If during the growing season there is high humidity, then rust may develop - yellow-orange tubercles on the upper side of the leaf. Helps spraying the bottom of the sheet with a decoction of nettle, wormwood or Bordeaux liquid.
Important information! A rose can be cured if, along with spraying with poisons, a complex of agricultural measures will be carried out.
Gardeners involved in roses tend to plant an unusual rose garden. They dream of hybrid roses that would not lose their appeal until the frost. These requirements are met by Ice fo Yu variety - an exquisite decoration of any garden. She delights in the continuous flowering, unique coloring of flowers, fragrant with a wonderful aroma.
