The climbing rose Salita is one of those varieties that have long attracted attention and cause an enthusiastic reaction with their lush scarlet flowers. When looking at them, a clear comparison arises with the flames. Decorative and unpretentiousness make her a welcome guest in the personal plots of Russian gardeners.
Rosa Salita
Salita - a rose belonging to the group of Klimmers. Breeders of the old German nursery Wilhelm Cordes introduced this variety to the world in 1987. KORmorlet is the second name of the plant.
Spreading Salita shrubs with long strong shoots and large dark green glossy leaves reach 2.5-3 m in height and 1.5 m in width. The rate of development of a plant depends on the climate in which it grows: the colder, the slower the growth. This can be considered the only drawback, not so significant, given that in the first year of life it is better to avoid flowering by removing the buds.
Inflorescences of Salita
On young stems of a purple hue, bright orange-coral double flowers are poured, neatly shaped up to 9 cm in diameter, can be collected in inflorescences up to 5 pieces. It has the external characteristics of tea and tea-hybrid tea varieties. The aroma is light, with fruity notes. The flowering process is long and almost continuous at all levels of the bush. It has good frost resistance (up to -26 ° C), subject to shelter. According to the description, it is resistant to pest invasions, undemanding in care, well tolerates rainy weather.
The Salita variety is suitable for vertical gardening and allows you to decorate the walls of buildings, arrange a garden arch or a gazebo. Looks great in a single landing in the middle of a lawn, or, conversely, in a company with groundcover, preferably white: verbena, phlox, alissums, and others. It goes well with conifers.
Salita in landscape design
Flower growing
Seedlings are planted in lighted areas, in well-drained soil, timely fertilizing. The best period for planting in mid-latitudes is considered to be autumn (late September - early October). In a couple of weeks, the rose of Solita manages to give the first roots, which adapt even before the onset of the first frost. With the advent of spring, the root and terrestrial parts actively, as far as possible for slow-growing varieties, grow.
Important! When planting in the spring, the development of the plant will be delayed for several weeks and will require more careful care. Before planting in the soil, seedlings are necessarily shortened by 2-3 buds, although you can do it easier by purchasing ready-made root-bearing young plants in the nursery.
Speaking of pruning seedlings, we mean shortening 3-5 strong shoots to 15 cm, weak shoots are cut completely. The roots are subjected to the same procedure, leaving only a small bunch. Next, the places of the slices are treated with charcoal dust, the roots are soaked in a growth stimulator.
Any roses prefer loose loamy fertile soils that easily pass moisture. If heavy clay or sand prevails in the area, they should be diluted with the opposite type of soil. The addition of lime, humus, humus, phosphorus fertilizers to enrich the soil and make it even more suitable for growing this garden crop. Land intended for landing should be dug up several times in late summer and spring.
Digging a plot for planting roses
The procedure for planting is as follows:
- Choose a landing site, with a slight slope, to ensure that there is no stagnation of moisture. A site near the wall of the building or any other vertical support that will protect the plant and allow it to develop normally will do. However, the distance between the wall and the seedling should be at least 60 cm so that the long roots of the rose do not undergo too rapid depletion.
- The soil is dug up to a depth of 65 cm, a rather large pit is formed so that the plant does not have a deficit in space, and organic fertilizers are introduced into it. If a group planting is planned, then between the medium-sized bushes leave 50 cm, and large seedlings are located about 1 m from each other.
- The pit is drained, a fertile soil with fertilizer is added to the hill.
- Sapling roots are lowered into the pit, deepening the root neck in the soil by 10-12 cm, which will provide additional warming of the plant for the winter.
- The roots are freely placed in the pit, covered with earth to the surface, filling the voids, trampled a little.
Salita is a climbing rose. Therefore, in addition to standard care actions, including watering, weeding, top dressing, loosening, mulching the soil, autumn and spring cutting of the bush and removing faded inflorescences, it also requires garter.
Important! Garter allows you to give the bush a conceived shape and protect the branches from breaking off under the weight of inflorescences.
Plant care
Forming a bush, the branches are arranged not only vertically, but also horizontally or diagonally, otherwise the plant will quickly become impoverished, releasing buds only at the highest tier. The fan-shaped arrangement of branches is very popular, and it is possible to spin branches around a round support (for example, wrapping them around gallery posts) so that the branches do not interfere with each other.
Watering and feeding
Solita is watered, like most roses, 1-2 times a week so that the soil around is soaked in depth by 0.5 meters. In the first year of life, plants are fed monthly in the following sequence:
- water with bird droppings - 1/20;
- water with cow manure - 1/10;
- wood ash solution.
Feeding roses with watering
An adult shrub requires regular feeding at least 6 times per season with breaks of 2-3 weeks. The following scheme is recommended:
- in early spring - urea solution (20 g per bucket of water);
- ammonium nitrate (30 g per bucket of water);
- complex mineral fertilizer before the formation of buds;
- a solution of cow manure at the very beginning of flowering;
- repeated feeding with minerals - after flowering is completed;
- at the end of the summer season, double top dressing with superphosphate (20 g per bucket of water) and potassium salt (10x10).
Pruning
To keep the bush healthy, ensuring its lush flowering, regular pruning is necessary. At the same time, dried branches, shoots that do not give flowers and old lashes that are more than 4 years old are removed. The remaining shoots shorten to 5 buds, which is quite enough for the development of the bush and its abundant flowering.
Important! Before winter warming, Solita is treated with fungicides. Further, the bush is deeply spudded, the lashes are neatly detached from the support, bent to the ground and covered with sawdust or wood shavings.
Flowering roses
Widely spread Solita bushes bloom continuously throughout the growing season. Correct placement of lashes and compliance with agricultural technology as a whole ensures an abundance of flowering. If this variety refuses to bloom, then attention should be paid to the timeliness and completeness of the nursing measures described above.
Flower propagation
Climbing roses can be propagated by seeds, layering, cuttings and grafting. The simplest methods are layering and cuttings. But for seed cultivation it is better to use store material. Having collected the seeds yourself, you need to be prepared that a new plant may lose variety characteristics.
Seedlings of roses
Regardless of how the seeds are obtained, they are germinated in this way:
- Spread out in a sieve and placed for half an hour in a container with hydrogen peroxide to disinfect and protect against mold during the period of stratification.
- Seeds are laid out on pieces of cloth moistened with peroxide and covered with another layer of peroxide-saturated.
- The tissue with seeds is placed in a plastic bag, the bag in a container.
- The container is signed and put into the refrigerator.
- Regularly check the condition of the seeds. In case of mold, repeat the procedure of soaking in peroxide, change the fabric and again put it in the refrigerator.
- After 1.5-2 months, each seed is transferred to a separate peat pot, mulching the surface with perlite to protect it from the "black leg".
- Pots with seedlings are placed where they will be provided with a long daylight hours - at least 10 hours, and watered as the soil dries.
Care continues until spring. During this time, plants need to be fed with complex minerals.
If everything was done correctly, then about 2 months after planting, the buds may appear at the seedlings, which are better not to bloom, so that the root system has time to strengthen.
Important! Seedlings are transferred to open ground only when the ground warms up.
Diseases, pests and ways to combat them
Salita is quite resistant to disease. An exception is fungal infections, to which it is still susceptible. However, infection can easily be avoided by observing the same care rules: avoiding waterlogging, pruning and providing sufficient lighting.
Faced with powdery mildew or black spotting, you can fight them with Fitosporin-M, Bayleton and other fungicidal preparations.
This variety is rarely affected by harmful insects. An excellent prophylactic is a decoction of ivy or a soap-garlic solution with which the bush is sprayed. It’s enough to sprinkle the trunk circle with tobacco dust.
Providing care and good care to the fiery beauty, it is easy to find bright scarlet bushes on your site that will cause the envy of neighbors and friends.
