One and a half meter roses symbolize beauty, tenderness, and also act as a decoration for any personal plot. Flowers can be short, medium and tall. Today the assortment of rose bushes has no less than 15,000 varieties, among which are decorative, home, bush and many others.

But many growers are wondering what tall roses are. Before you start growing and breeding this type of plant, you need to read the recommendations for agricultural technology and care. Indeed, only with proper care, the flowers will not die, but will delight with their flowering for more than one season.

Giant roses: description and characteristics

Long roses can reach from 2 to 5 m in height, but in most cases they do not grow by themselves, but on artificial fortifications. Rosehip bushes can be used as artificial fortifications, as well as wooden or iron support. If a rose hip bush serves as a support, you get a rose tree, which will become an original and beautiful element in the landscape design of the site.

Long roses

If the rose wraps around a wooden support, fence or arch, then the site will become a magical garden. If we consider tall roses of the variety, then they can be as follows:

  • curly, differ in small buds, blooming no more than 1 time a year;
  • climbing plants with large buds, bloom 2 times a year.

In the circles of experienced gardeners, there is an opinion that a rose on a high stem is not a separately bred variety, but the most common culture that has been grafted onto a tall stem. In connection with this position, the optimal solution would be the simultaneous planting of a standard and ordinary rose of the same variety.

Note! To decorate an infield with a tall rose, it is necessary to give preference only to those varieties that have lush flowering and a symmetrical shape. It is also worth paying attention to the nature of growth, as it will help maintain the chosen shape.

Popular varieties

How often to water roses

Roses giants can be small, medium-sized and quite tall. Tall varieties (Cardinal 85, Queen Elizabeth and Forever Young) have very flexible and long shoots that hang down and create a unique picture. Such roses are grown in full growth on boles, the height of which is no more than 1 m.

The medium-sized type of roses (Golden Gate, Iceberg, Pomponella) is represented by lush, low bushes, which must be placed on boles 40-60 cm high.

Weak varieties (Blue Moon, Landora and Super Star) are recommended by experienced flower growers to be planted on a wooden or iron support, reaching 20-30 cm in height.

Recommendations for agricultural techniques for growing high varieties of roses

Blue roses

To grow a beautiful rose garden, you should give preference only to high-quality seedlings. It is best to buy inexpensive planting material from garden stores or specialized nurseries.

Important! Quality seedlings are sold in bags or containers with soil that protects the root system from drying out and also nourishes it.

It is imperative to check with the seller the age of the cuttings and whether it was grafted into another crop, since the growing conditions depend on this.This is because there are varieties of roses that cannot be grown outdoors. When buying seedlings, you need to carefully examine: they should not have a greenish tint. If the stems are shriveled, this may indicate a lack of moisture, which will lead to the death of the rose after it is transplanted.

Purchased seedlings must be dipped into a container with water for 24 hours, and when the root system dries up, into a solution of copper sulfate. To store rose seedlings for 7 days before planting in open ground, the roots must be wrapped with a damp cloth, the twigs must be wrapped in wet paper, and the entire stalk must be wrapped in plastic.

The step-by-step algorithm for planting a tall rose in the ground is as follows:

  1. It is strictly forbidden to destroy the clod of earth in which the cuttings were located, as this can harm the root system of a rose in human growth.
  2. Place the cuttings in the center of the planting pit so that the top of the earthy coma coincides with the ground surface.
  3. Take a nutrient substrate and fill the hole with it, then tamp well.
  4. Seedlings of a two-meter rose should be watered abundantly, protected from sunlight for 7 days.
  5. The procedure for planting seedlings is recommended only in cloudy and calm weather, in the evening. Roots that have been damaged, as well as dried inflorescences and buds, must be removed immediately.

    Long roses

Some growers advise to determine the optimal planting time, focusing on the climatic conditions of a particular area. In temperate areas, roses should be planted in the spring or fall. If the seedlings were planted in spring, foliage will not develop so quickly, and you can speed up the process of flower development with the help of additional fertilizers.

It is best to carry out the planting procedure in early autumn, until the first frosts appear. If a tall, erect rose is grafted, then for the winter it will need to be sheltered from the cold, since the seedlings will not have time to take root and get stronger before the frosts come.

How to build a durable stem for tall roses

To obtain a rose tree, you will certainly need a rosehip bush, on which you need to remove almost all shoots, except for the most flexible and dense one. This branch should be grafted with a long red rose variety, but make sure that the bark is not very thick. After that, you need to carefully clean up the cut areas and shorten the root system by at least 20-25 cm.

Note! Rosehip bushes for tall varieties of roses must be grown in advance. They need to be planted in autumn or spring, keeping a distance of 1 meter between holes. In most cases, shrubs need about 3 years to grow new shoots.

When the stems are ready, they should be dug up and all necessary procedures performed, including cutting off the shoots. After that, in the garden bed, where there are no drafts and flooding, you need to make a stock. Further, to form a beautiful crown, the upper shoots are grown, and it is better to cut the lower stems in advance.

The main pests and diseases of tall roses

Planting a climbing rose

Like all flower crops, a long-stemmed rose is periodically infested with various diseases and pests. Plants can suffer from diseases due to the fact that unfavorable conditions were created during the growing process by a novice florist. The most common rose pests are:

  • bronze;
  • spider mite;
  • rose-colored aphids;
  • weevil;
  • sawfly.

Due to high temperatures, some pests can multiply very actively, and due to prolonged wet weather conditions, fungal diseases spread: powdery mildew, rust and black spot.

In the fight against many diseases of the high rose, experienced flower growers recommend resorting to proper agricultural techniques and processing plants during the growing season with drugs that can be called Topaz, Hom and Ordan, etc. They include copper, but you can also use a Bordeaux mixture.The spraying procedure must be carried out as soon as the first signs of illness or pest damage appear.

One of the main advantages of a huge rose is that it can be placed not only on personal plots, but also on terraces and balconies. The flowers of a large rose will serve as a decoration for any garden, as they can be combined with almost all plants. Pink and white buds look very elegant, due to which they attract the attention of people around.