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Hybrid tea roses are most popular among florists and landscape designers - the high decorativeness of these shrubs during the flowering period, beautiful buds with a pleasant aroma, good resistance to cold and many diseases are the main reason for the high popularity of these flowers.
There are a large number of hybrid tea varieties of roses bred by breeders from different countries. Sometimes it is difficult for a novice florist to make a choice from a huge number of such beauties.
General information and history of the creation of the variety
A few decades ago, tea varieties of the "queen of flowers" were popular among flower growers in different countries of the world, but thanks to the efforts of breeders who breathed new notes into the old varieties, hybrids of tea roses appeared on the flower market. This group of perennial shrubs is called hybrid tea.
Rose Vanilla
The first such hybrid was bred in the middle of the 19th century, while the remontant and tea varieties of roses were crossed. Such breeding work began to be carried out in order to improve the genetics of old tea roses, to improve the color of the buds, as well as to obtain many new varieties of the "queen of flowers".
Subsequently, dozens of similar flowers were bred, each of which was beautiful in its own way.
Vanilla hybrid tea rose was bred by specialists from Belgium, working in the famous nursery of the Topalovich brothers, in 1999.
Currently, in addition to this hybrid tea variety, there are other varieties of roses, the name of which contains the word "Vanilla":
- rose Vanilla Fraz (or rose Vanilla Fraz);
- rose Floribunda Vanilla.
There are a number of articles on the Internet about the Climbing Rose Vanilla Fraze and the Floribunda Vanilla variety, but this article is about the Vanilla Hybrid Tea.
Characteristics and features of the variety
Rose Vanilla Meidiland (or Vanilla Sky Hybrid) is a very beautiful perennial. This shrub is quite tall, with erect shoots about 0.8 m high. The stems have a high degree of growth, so such a perennial can be 0.8-1.3 m in diameter.
Rose Vanilla Meidiland
The bushes are well leafy, the color of the leaf plates is dark emerald, the leaves have a characteristic glossy sheen.
Flowering is abundant, the buds are pale white, when blooming, it is clearly visible that the petals in the central part are creamy yellow in color.
Vanilla skye is a very capricious shrub, the average resistance of which to diseases appears only in hot dry weather. In the rainy season, perennials can be affected by fungal diseases, and the resistance to cold of such bushes is not higher than average.
This concludes the description of the Vanilla variety.
Agricultural technology of cultivation
The agricultural technique of planting and growing this tea hybrid practically does not differ from the corresponding measures for planting other varieties of roses.
Planting roses
You should choose a lighted area with fertile loose soil.Planting can be done both in spring and autumn.
Further care includes regular watering, loosening, feeding and pruning.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The advantages of this variety, as well as Vanilla Fraise (fraise), include:
- abundant flowering;
- the ability to use this variety for cutting;
- beautiful appearance of blossoming buds.
But the variety also has disadvantages that flower growers need to know about:
- this perennial does not tolerate the rainy season;
- average resistance to frost, therefore, in central Russia and other regions with a similar climate, it requires good shelter for the winter.
Despite a number of shortcomings, the growing popularity of Vanilla should be noted. This blooming perennial is actively used by landscape designers when drawing up group compositions.
