The correct shelter of roses for the winter

More and more you can see on the sites beautiful bushes of flowering roses. This truly royal flower deservedly won the love of gardeners. Wanting to create a fragrant and luxurious garden, we spend huge sums to buy seedlings. But all our work and invested money can disappear if the wrong cover of roses is made for the winter.

In the southern areas of our vast country, special precautions are not required. Soft winter and small temperature fluctuations are not able to bring a strong harm to the bush. But gardeners in northern Russia need to know several ways how to cover roses for the winter. Let's look at the most common and available options.

To conduct insulation work on the site, we need fir paws, dry leaves, peat, roofing material, wooden boxes, lutrasil and ropes. Before embarking on a "rescue operation", it is necessary to learn the methods for each type of shrub.

To begin with, it will be necessary to conduct preparatory work. With each bush it is necessary to completely remove the leaves and the last flowers, the unripe ends and fatty shoots. After that, carefully spray each branch with a solution prepared from ten liters of water, thirty grams of copper sulfate and three hundred grams of green soap.

Stamp varieties of roses are wrapped in fir paws and moss, we cover with lutrasil on top and fix the structure with a rope. After that, the bush is warmed with a wooden box, all the free space is filled with dry sawdust. On top of the box lay a sheet of roofing material or roofing felt. If you can bend branches to the ground, then cover the patch of land with spruce paws. Gently bending the shoots, pinned them with wooden horns. We cover the entire bush with sheets of roofing material and pour a thick layer of opila, peat or fallen leaves on top.

How to cover roses for the winter, if you have planted climbing varieties? The technology of work is the same as in the previous case. Only have to remove the shoots from the support, clean them from the leaves and cut all rotten and damaged branches. Only after this, carefully twist the bush and peg to the ground. Prepare for the branches a pillow made of a thick layer of leaves and sawdust. From the top we shelter lutrasilom and cover it first with spruce paws, and then with a layer of leaves.

If you have a polyanthic, tea-hybrid varieties, floribunda or perestrian roses, shelter for the winter is without bending branches. Such bushes are first peated with peat. With the onset of the first frost, plantations are covered with spruce paws, covered with dry leaves and fixed with the whole structure by lutrasil and ropes.

Widely used for sheltering roses for the winter by air-dry method. The bushes are prepared for wintering and sprayed with a specially prepared solution. Let the branches dry well. After this, we build a hut over the plantings, using the harvested wooden shields, lutrasil and film for this. Do not forget to spend the airing during the thaw period, in order to avoid getting rid of the bark. The big plus of this method is the availability of a favorable microclimate for the plant and a reliable protection against sudden temperature changes.

If you have a dense planting, then it will be much easier to cover the roses for the winter. In this case, we set arcs above the bushes. The land is mulched with rotten sawdust and dry leaves. We pull the lutrasil on the arcs, and with the onset of rain we cover the entire structure with several layers of thick film.

Before the onset of stable frosts (down to minus eight degrees), we leave small ventages. For the winter period, we must close them. The edges of the film are sprinkled with a layer of earth. This will not only help keep the ends of the material, but also create a special microclimate inside the structure.