How to grow climbing roses well on a balcony? These care methods you need to master

This is day 864 of Lan Yao's daily original article

This article is an excerpt from one of Lan Yao's original theories

Excerpt from the "Three-Step Rose Growing Method" series

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Yesterday Lan Yao introduced the correct method for training roses onto a rose arch. Rose walls and rose arches are both fairly suitable for gardening enthusiasts with courtyards and terraces, but they are relatively difficult for balcony growers to achieve.

If you are a balcony grower and you really like the abundant blooming effect of climbing roses, then you might try rose pillars and trellises.

Since balcony space is relatively small, it is not really possible to plant climbing roses on a large scale. However, growing them in pots as pillars and trellises is still achievable. Today Lan Yao will talk about how to grow climbing roses on a balcony.

How to grow climbing roses well on a balcony?

When growing climbing roses on a balcony, we first need to consider 2 issues:

1. Available growing space 2. Variety selection

How much growing space is available?

How much space on the balcony can be made available for climbing roses to grow, and whether to create a trellis effect or a pillar effect, are all questions we need to consider.

If the space is relatively large, you can create a fan-shaped trellis effect; if the space is relatively small, you can make a pillar. Of course, if you have a large villa balcony, a flower arch can also be tried.

Variety selection:

Because space is limited, Lan Yao suggests choosing small climbing varieties. Large climbing roses grow too fast and will exceed our expectations.

Relatively small climbing varieties and vigorously growing shrub rose varieties, such as the climbing roses Wickwood, Margaret Princess, Queen of Sweden, Jansson, Pretty Kiss, and others, are more suitable for growing on a balcony to create a trellis effect.

However, small-flowered climbing rose varieties, because their branches are slender and soft, are more suitable for making pillars. For example: Song of the Vineyard, Sweet Carriage, Climbing Baby, and so on.

How to care for them?

Many people do not know how to care for climbing roses. The biggest difference between climbing roses and shrub roses lies in how the basal shoots are handled.

After choosing the varieties, you should set up the support when potting, but setting up the support does not mean you have to tie all the branches of the young plant onto it.

Newly purchased plants often do not have strong basal shoots. At this time we only need to remove the flower buds, let the branches droop naturally, or manually train them to a horizontal position, and strengthen fertilizer and water management.

After the basal shoots grow out, fix them upright to protect the growth of the basal shoots, and wait until winter to do the training.

If it is a large-flowered variety with thick, hard branches, you can do moderate diagonal training during the growing season to adjust the angle of the branches, making it easier to train and shape them in winter.

Actually, climbing roses are very easy to grow. They have strong resistance and vigorous growth. As long as you do a good job with fertilizer and water management and training, they will bloom abundantly very easily.

Now the first flush of flowers on many climbing roses is already near its end, and it is time to prune. Tomorrow Lan Yao will continue to share the post-bloom pruning method for rose walls.

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