Angel Rose: description of the variety, rules for planting and care at home

Floribunda rose Angela (Angela) is not a rare variety in our area. A lush, sprawling bush, strewn with many half-open and semi-double flowers of pale crimson color, will decorate any garden plot. The rose is a light-loving plant, it blooms profusely in the sun. This variety is sensitive to excess moisture, does not like stagnant air and drafts.

Description of the rose

Rose Angela, or Angela, bred by breeders of a German company founded by Wilhelm Kordes. A new pink-flowered floribunda was registered in 1984.

Appearance

The Angela rose has pink (pale raspberry) semi-double and half-open flowers with a diameter of 6 centimeters. They are collected in lush inflorescences. Each has from 5 to 22 flowers, exuding a sweetish fruity aroma. The bush is sprawling, 80-150 centimeters high. The leaves are green, matte, 15-17 centimeters long.

Flowering

Angela blooms in the first half of summer. Duration of flowering of one flower - 2 weeks, the whole inflorescence - 3 weeks. The bush blooms profusely in June, in July the number of flowers decreases. After flowering, rose petals fall off.

Application in landscape design

Rose Angela is rightfully considered the mistress of flower beds. Her spreading bush, profusely covered with retro-style flowers, takes center stage in the composition. The use of Angela depends on the degree of pruning.It can grow as a lush, low shrub or as a climbing, support-supported rose.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Floribunda Rose Benefits:

• excellent winter hardiness;
• resistance to many diseases;
• abundant flowering;
• good adaptation to all weather conditions.

Variety Faults:

• needs watering in drought;
• For abundant flowering, fertilization is required.

The subtleties of growing roses Angela

Angela rose can be planted in your garden. It is better to buy seedlings in the spring. The optimal time for planting in a flower bed is the end of May. By this time, the soil should warm up to 10 degrees Celsius. The air temperature should exceed +15 degrees Celsius.

Where to plant

The bush can be planted in the center of the flower bed, on the sides of the garden path, near the house, near the fence. The rose is used for single or group plantings. Angela can grow in an open sunny area and in partial shade. Rosa loves the sun, but does not tolerate too marshy ground.

If the place where it is planted is flooded with water during the rains, the roots of the plant will begin to rot, the rose may disappear.

Seedling selection

During the purchase, you need to inspect the seedling well. It should have juicy green stems, elastic leaves, he althy roots. Two-year-old seedlings are usually sold, which bloom in the year of planting. Before planting a plant in a permanent place, its roots must be lowered into Kornevin's solution for 2 hours.

Preparing the site

For planting the Angela variety, it is necessary to dig a hole 0.5 meters deep. The earth must be mixed with humus, peat, sand, leaf, sod or garden soil. To the soil mixture, you can add 300 grams of ash, a little universal fertilizer Kemira Lux.

Boarding process

Half of the dug and fertilized earth should be put back into the hole. A seedling must be installed on top of the mound. Its roots must be sprinkled with the remaining earth. The root neck may remain above the soil surface. The ground around the plant should be lightly tamped. After planting, it is recommended to water the seedling with water (10 liters). Until the plant takes root in a new place, it must be protected from the sun and irrigated.

Further care

The Angela variety does not require any special care. It is advisable to water the plant in a dry season and feed it with fertilizers several times during the summer.

Lighting

Rose will bloom profusely if planted in an open area under the sun. The plant can grow in partial shade. True, in a heavily shaded place, flowering will be weak.

Temperature and humidity

Angela variety perfectly adapts to any weather conditions. In summer, the plant will bloom in heat and rain. The main thing is that the place where the rose is planted should not be flooded with water after rains.

The rose bush is best planted on a hill or on a hill.

Water and fertilize

In the dry season, the bush can be watered. For irrigation take rain or settled water. Pour 2 buckets of water under the bush. The plant must be fed in the warm season at least once a month. At the very beginning of the growing season, nitrogen substances are introduced into the soil. During the budding period, the plant can be fed with potassium and phosphorus. In summer, the rose is fertilized with complex mineral fertilizers (Kemira Universal).

Loosening and mulching

The soil near the rose can be loosened shallowly after each watering. It is important to remember that the rose does not tolerate waterlogging of the soil, and peat or sawdust mulch will retain moisture. Before wintering, the soil can be mulched with a thick layer of humus.

Cutting

Formative pruning is carried out at the initial stage of plant growth. The Angela variety can be given the appearance of a lush bush if you pinch the growth points on the main shoots. The plant can be turned into a climbing rose, if you leave 2-3 shoots, remove the lower and side branches, let only the upper ones develop.

In early spring and late autumn, sanitary pruning is carried out, that is, all weak and broken branches are removed. In summer, flowers that have faded should be cut off immediately to encourage new buds and prolong flowering.

Shelter

A bush before the onset of frost can be mulched with a thick layer of humus. This winter-hardy variety is not afraid of frost. True, in the northern latitudes, it is better to bend the bush to the ground, lay it on the spruce branches and cover it with pine or spruce branches and burlap.

Diseases, pests and prevention

This variety has good resistance to many diseases. The rose will not get sick if it is fed on time and not flooded. As a preventive measure, the plant can be treated with a fungicide solution (Fitosporin-M, Fundazol) in early spring.

Angela variety can be attacked by insects (aphids, leaf beetles, spider mites). Treatments with insecticides and acaricides (Fitoverm, Aktellik, Karbofos) save the plant from pests.

Reproduction methods

The Angelica variety is propagated vegetatively. Lignified cuttings 15 cm long are taken for propagation. They are cut from a rose at the end of summer, after flowering. The cuttings are rooted in a moist substrate under a transparent flask. Another rose Angela can be propagated by layering. At the beginning of summer, a lignified branch is slightly scratched, bent down and sprinkled with soil. In the place of contact with the ground, roots will grow on the shoot by autumn.It is better to separate the new plant from the mother plant next spring.

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