Lavender ice rose is a wonderful garden plant that is quite popular among gardeners due to its amazing decorative qualities. After all, rather miniature bushes of this variety are decorated with beautiful flowers, as close as possible to the dream of any professional breeder - a blue rose. They are distinguished by a pleasant lavender-lilac shade and rather large size.

Rosa Lavender ice belongs to the rather large group of rose floribunda. In turn, this variety is the result of crossing hybrid tea and other roses, which made it possible to obtain plants that are very resistant to various unfavorable conditions. For the same reason, Floribunda roses have an incredibly attractive scent during flowering.

Features of Floribunda roses

This variety of roses includes quite a few varieties and continues to be loved by gardeners (both amateurs and professionals). Moreover, many of them advise starting the development of their own rose garden with Floribunda, since it is distinguished by an excellent combination of good aesthetic parameters with high frost resistance and non-susceptibility to most diseases characteristic of roses. Such qualities are associated with a very extensive pedigree of the flower - during its selection, specialists used the material of hybrid tea, musk, and also polyanthus roses.

Rose lavender ice

There are a huge number of Floribunda varieties, and each of them has a unique appearance and aromatics. Among them, the miniature rose Lavender Ice deserves special attention. This variety has a relatively recent history, but at the same time it has already managed to fall in love with quite a few flower growers.

The emergence of the Lavender ice variety

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It is believed that the Floribunda Lavender Ice rose is the result of the painstaking work of the specialists of the Rosen Tantau company. At the same time, they managed to accomplish a rather difficult task - to get a plant with a fairly miniature bush size and very impressive saucer-shaped flowers.

However, its main feature is a unique shade - delicate lavender, with a bluish-silvery sheen of thin ice. This was the reason for the cultivar getting an exquisite name, which can be roughly translated as "lavender ice".

Shade of lavender ice

Like many other varieties bred in the Rosen Tantau nursery, Lavender ice (another name is Lavender lace rose) has a fairly abundant flowering and a high degree of resistance to both pests and diseases, as well as to adverse weather conditions. Saplings of this variety take root well even in the northern regions of Russia and delight their owners with delicate buds, as if emerging from a fairy tale.

Characteristics of the Lavender rose

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This plant is an excellent choice for growing in the foreground. They can be used to decorate curbs and other hills, and container growing is also a good choice. The variety belongs to the number of patio roses, since the bushes in height most often have from 30 centimeters to half a meter. However, there are plants that reach almost a meter mark. The foliage has a pleasant shade and glossy texture. The flowers have a delicate aroma and are quite large in size (up to 9-10 centimeters in diameter).Abundant flowering, often several times.

Blooms several times

It is not for nothing that this rose has the word Ice in its name, because it is one of the cold-resistant ones. Moreover, during the season, it blooms several times, and the latter often stops immediately before the onset of cold weather. As for the stability in terms of precipitation, it is slightly lower. A nice bonus for any gardener is that Lavender is not at all prone to powdery mildew, as well as black spot.

Growing recommendations

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Due to the varietal characteristics, planting, growing and caring for this variety are quite simple. In this case, the description of all the necessary recommendations for planting seedlings is reduced to the following list:

  1. The best place to place a patio roses will be an open area with sufficient light. At the same time, it is desirable that direct sunlight falls on the plant in the morning and evening. Also important are the ability to ventilate and the absence of cold air currents (especially in winter).
  2. The best soil for planting Lavender ice roses is black soil. At the same time, it is very important not to be mistaken with the groundwater level - it should be at least a meter deep from the earth's surface.
  3. It is desirable that the soil has a slightly acidic reaction. If this is not the case, you can use such "feeding" as peat or humus.
  4. The optimal time for planting the above variety is late April and early May. It is also possible to carry out this event in the autumn, however, in this case, it is necessary to make all the necessary recommendations before the start of frost on the soil, so that future bushes take root well in the ground.

Important! In order for the plants to develop correctly, it is necessary to provide them with a sufficient area: about six to eight seedlings should be planted per one square meter of land.

As for the rules of caring for Floribunda, they are practically no different from working with other roses. To ensure normal conditions for roses, you must:

  1. Loosen the soil around the bushes regularly and weed out the weeds.
  2. Engage in the prevention of major diseases.
  3. Apply nitrogen, phosphorus and potash fertilizers on time.
  4. Also, do not forget about watering. To do this, it is enough to use from one to one and a half buckets of water, it is carried out once a week, and during severe droughts - no more than two.
  5. Three times a year (in spring, summer and autumn) it is necessary to prune the bushes. You also need to remember to completely remove all the buds in the first year. In August, no more than two flowers are left on each of the new shoots.
  6. With the onset of the cold season, roses are covered. To do this, the land around the bushes is spud using soil, humus or compost, the plants themselves are cut off. Further, the structure is covered with a special frame, spruce branches, insulation and film.

Note! In the process of covering the bushes in the film, it is necessary to leave holes (the so-called "air holes"). Also, from March (or, depending on weather conditions, from April), the plants are ventilated, and the top layer of the film is completely removed for accelerated pecking of the buds.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Like any other plant, Lavender ice has its own advantages and certain disadvantages. The popularity of the variety is based on the fact that there are much more positive aspects of growing these roses than negative ones. These include:

  • relative ease of maintenance;
  • a significant degree of resistance to various diseases;
  • good adaptability to low temperatures;
  • excellent aesthetic parameters.

As for the disadvantages, they include only the small height of the bushes, which makes them suitable only for growing in open areas, borders or in containers.

Rose Floribunda Lavender Ice is an excellent choice for any garden plot.Moreover, in order to successfully cultivate it, it is enough to have an average level of theoretical and practical training.

This plant has excellent decorative qualities and, with proper care, can delight for a long time with its tenderness and beauty and turn into an exquisite decoration of even the most presentable garden.