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Dutch roses are considered the best-selling among all known varieties of roses. They owe their popularity to the beautiful colors of all tones and shades with a delicate smell on even long shoots. A variety of color palette from maroon almost black to delicate white color allows you to choose the variety to your taste.
Dutch roses are not even a variety, but belonging to a country that has long been considered the breeding capital of the whole world. Breeders of the Netherlands produce the best, beautiful and sustainable varieties using new technologies and modern methods.
Today on our summer cottages you can find famous varieties of Dutch selection:
- Grand Prix( GrandPrix) - an elegant burgundy beauty on a long stem up to 1m of hybrid tea selection.
- Aqua( Aqua) - a lilac-pink flower with a diameter of 11 cm on a stem without thorns.
- Talea( Talea) is a ivory-colored rose of captivating beauty.
- Black Baccara( BlackBaccara) - black outlines against the background of maroon buds with pointed petals.
- Terracotta( Terracota) - two-color buds of coral orange color with a delicate pink shade impresses with a wonderful aroma.
Growing Dutch roses
A bouquet of Dutch roses has long been considered a symbol of love, a sign of great respect and appreciation. How often we are tempted to start a bush of amazing roses in our garden, which amazed our imagination in a bouquet. Any variety of Dutch roses reproduces beautifully from cuttings, but you need to know a few rules and choose the surest method of reproduction.
If you decide to grow your favorite variety of roses from the presented bouquet in the cold season, be prepared for the fact that the grown own-owned bush will be less frost-resistant than the grafted one. Fresh-cut rose shoots from nearby greenhouses are suitable for grafting, as imported Dutch roses undergo chemical treatment with preservatives, suspending their fading and preserving the appearance of the flower.
- For cutting the cuttings, we take only that part of the shoot, where the leaves have five plates - this is the most viable part of the stem. We prepare cuttings with three buds; we make an oblique cut from the bud by 3-4 cm. Above the upper kidney through 1cm do a straight cutThe bottom sheet is completely removed, the remaining leaf plates are cut in half.
- Pour the thawed or filtered water with the addition of growth preparations into prepared plastic transparent glasses and put cuttings in them, protecting them from the direct rays of the sun. After 4 weeks, nodules appear at an oblique cut — the beginnings of roots.
- Planted cuttings in pots with soil and cover them with vacated cups. A month later, the first shoots from the buds will appear, but do not remove the shelter. Tender shoots may die outdoors.
- If the time for planting in open ground did not fit, and buds appeared on the cuttings, it is better to remove them and allow the roots to develop.
Important: when growing Dutch roses from cuttings in the room, they must be sprayed frequently in the first weeks 5-7 times a day, then 3 times.
Easy Landing
The easiest way of reproduction is autumn cutting, when cut roses of various varieties are on sale. For planting, we choose semi-woody shoots and cut cuttings, which are 4-5 buds. The cuttings are planted immediately in a trench under an inclination into the soil prepared in advance, adding sand, peat, wood ash, superphosphate and potassium nitrate to it. Cover all the cuttings with plastic bottles or glass jars and leave for the winter. In the spring, we begin to take care of the rooted cuttings: watering, loosening the earth and creating favorable conditions for increasing the root system.
