Climbing rose Indigoletta: description and characteristics of the variety, planting and care

It is not for nothing that the rose is called the queen. The flower, symbolizing love and innocence, is grown in yards and cottages, on the streets and in parks, cultivated in botanical gardens. Breeders have bred many varieties that differ in shape, size of flowers, color of petals. Climbing rose Indigoletta is suitable for creating hedges, for decorating arches, decorating buildings.

History of Appearance

Azubis variety with an unusual shade of flowers, which landscape designers are happy to use, was bred by a breeder from the Netherlands, Van de Laak, in 1981. Indigoletta immediately interested flower growers with purple buds, which are extremely rare in roses.

The plant feels fine in partial shade, where it acquires a rich color, is rarely affected by diseases. The branches of the rose, which is called the Blue Queen, are arranged in a fan, which contributes to abundant flowering both above and below the plant.

Description and characteristics of the Indigoletta rose

The height of the Rose Indigolett bush reaches 3 m. The corolla of a blossoming flower, covering the stamens and pistils, has a lilac-blue or pink color. The glass-shaped bud strikes with a bright purple hue. The diameter of the corolla, consisting of 3 dozen terry petals, is at least 8 cm.

Dense bushes of the Indigoletta variety have powerful roots, hard lashes grow up to 1.5 m wide. The branches are covered with glossy leaves.

Rose blooms profusely in early and late summer, radiates a delicate aroma. For the winter, climbing bushes require insulation, but it is not easy to cover upright shoots.

Main advantages and disadvantages

The beauty of the Indigoletta rose was appreciated not only by landscape designers of European countries, but also by flower growers of the Lower Volga region, Rostov and Kaliningrad regions, Moldova and Ukraine.

The advantages of the variety include:

• original color of buds and petals;
• good frost resistance;
• highly decorative;
• abundant flowering;
• bright fragrance.

Dutch rose under cover does not freeze at -30 ° C, but the shoots are difficult to bend. Excess moisture provokes the development of fungal diseases in the plant. Indigoletta loves the light, but under the direct rays of the sun, the petals lose their bright color.

Features of cultivation

Although the rose belongs to unpretentious crops, but in order for the plant to please with a decorative look and lush long flowering, you need to choose the right place, properly care.

When and where to plant?

To prevent infection, Indigoletta is not recommended to be placed in the area where roses used to grow. When used in creating an arch, bushes are planted on the side illuminated by the sun. It is comfortable for the plant in partial shade, where the flowers retain a rich color.

When placing Indigoletta along a gazebo or building, holes are made at a distance of a meter, which prevents the accumulation of moisture.

Rose does not tolerate stagnant water, does not tolerate drafts and cold winds, grows well in loose soil.

When planted in spring, a climbing rose sprouts in summer, pleases with dense foliage. When placed in the soil in early autumn, the bushes become stronger and tolerate winter well.

Selecting planting material

1 or 2 year old roses with intact roots and two or three stems that have had time to lignify take root quickly. Seedlings must be pruned, not have leaves and berries. It is better to buy Indigoletta bushes that are sold in a container, although they are more expensive than roses with a bare root collar. If the seedlings have wrinkled bark, they need to be kept in water for several hours. When transporting to the site, the roots of the plant should not dry out.

Plant pattern

Up to 7 buds are left on the rose bush, the shoots are shortened to 30 cm, covering the cut points. The hole is dug to a depth of half a meter, filled with a mixture:

• sand;
• compost;
• humus;
• land.

Indigoletta seedling is placed in a hole so that the root collar is not covered with soil. An interval of 85-90 cm is left between the bushes, 1.5-2 m between rows.

In order for the rose to beautifully wrap around the fence, when landing, about one and a half meters recede from it.

Recommendations for the care of the variety

Indigoletta pleases with repeated flowering, bright shades, only when it is taken care of. Culture needs:

• in regular irrigation;
• feeding;
• in loosening the earth;
• pruning branches.

To preserve moisture, the soil under the plant is covered with sawdust, straw or peat. Climbing rose shoots are fixed to a support or trellis with strong twine. More flowers appear on shoots directed horizontally.

Irrigation

Young bushes need to be irrigated every week, but moisture stagnation should not be allowed, as this is fraught with rotting of the roots.If the plant is planted on the sunny side, the stems and leaves are advised to be sprayed with warm water twice a day. The first month, a bucket of liquid is poured under a rose, in the heat - two each. It is not recommended to irrigate a flowering plant with a hose.

Feeding and soil quality

2-3 months before planting a flower, the site is carefully dug up, roots and weeds are selected, acidic soil is limed. Bring into the ground:

• organic;
• superphosphate;
• soil bacteria.

Fertilize the rose with mullein or mineral mixtures that contain potassium and phosphorus. Before flowering, foliar top dressing is performed. Care must be taken to use complexes containing nitrogen. With an excess of this component, leaves and stems grow, but few buds form.

Pruning and transplanting

In spring and autumn, old, dry and diseased branches are removed, lashes are shortened, the length of which is higher than the support. No more than three annual growths and up to 7 shoots with flowers are left on the rose.

Indigoletta is transplanted in the spring before the leaves bloom. By this time, the earth should have warmed up to 7 ° C. To form strong roots, the buds formed on the rose are advised to cut off.

It is better to transplant bushes in the fall, a month and a half before the arrival of frost. Before the procedure, the plant is watered abundantly, the shoots are tied and dug in a circle to a depth of 0.2 m. When loosened, the rose is easily removed from the soil.

Roots need to be shortened, dried or rotten areas removed. Places of cuts should be sprinkled with ash or treated with brilliant green. A bush is planted in a prepared hole along with a clod of earth, adding soil, watering and tamping the soil several times.

Features of the wintering of the flower

If the air temperature in the coldest month of the year does not fall below -15 ° C, the rose can simply be piled high with earth. In mid-latitudes, rope loops are first thrown onto the shoots of Indigoletta, tilted to the ground, and stabbed with pegs.A week later, the branches are lowered even lower, shortening the twine. Blocks are placed under the base, needles or sawdust are poured on top, covered with foil.

Disease and pest control methods

Indigoletta suffers from powdery mildew, the leaves are covered with bloom, the buds dry up. In order to prevent the rose from being affected by the disease, in the spring the bushes are sprayed with copper preparations, in the summer - with a solution prepared from soap and caustic soda.

Infected shoots are cut out along with the leaves and burned. The plant is treated with "Gamair", "Planriz" or "Fitosporin".

In damp warm weather, Indigoletta is affected by black spotted. Timely removal of leaves from the site, compliance with the rules of watering helps to prevent the development of the disease. For the treatment of plants, spraying with Bordeaux liquid is carried out, biological fungicides such as "Ridomil Gold", "Topaz" are used.

Rose reproduction

You can breed the Indigoletta variety on the site with shoots, and even better with cuttings with 3 nodes. An incision is made at an angle of 45 ° from the lower kidney, the leaves are cut off. Shoots are planted in a container filled with a mixture of sand and earth, and covered with glass or film.

With regular watering, the cuttings sprout roots.

Use in garden design

Climbing roses growing close together form a hedge. Flowering shoots of the Indigoletta variety are decorated with semicircular metal arches, installed to frame a plot or flower bed. Roses are planted near lawns, paths, placed next to stones.

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