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- Roses love a breezy location
- Roses need air and light
- Southeast or southwestern locations are best suited
- Roses love loamy-humid soils
- Tips
Roses need space and sun for good growth
Roses love a breezy location
The best location for roses is neither too hot nor too dry or too wet. Instead, the flowers love a breezy place, sun and a well ventilated, humus soil - these conditions are the ideal basis for a good growth and a rich flowering. Also, the better the location, the less care you need to spend. But there are roses with special properties that thrive in less favorable places.
Roses need air and light
Most important for roses is a warm and sunny place that allows at least four to five hours of sun a day. The location should protect the plant from strong winds, but the air must still be able to circulate. Locations with accumulation heat promote pest infestation and diseases, for which roses are unfortunately quite vulnerable.
Southeast or southwestern locations are best suited
Southeast and southwestern locations are particularly suitable for a rose culture. On the other hand, pure southern plains, especially in front of a white wall or similar, can lead to leaf and flower burns due to excessive heat. But even those who call a rather shady garden his own: Even for northern locations, there are vigorous specialists among the roses. For example, the shrub roses 'Madame Hardy', 'Vogelpark Walsrode', 'Frühlingsgold', 'Lichtkönigin Lucia' or 'Rosarium Uetersen' as well as the climbing roses 'Violet Blue' and 'New Dawn' are growing here.
Roses love loamy-humid soils
The ideal soil for roses is deep, loamy-humic, with sand and well-drained. You can either improve less suitable soils or plant varieties there that can cope better with the special conditions. But what does not tolerate rose are compacted clay soil. The pH should be in the slightly acidic range between 6 and 6.5.
Tips
If possible, find a place for your roses on which there were no roses before. Otherwise, you run the risk that your roses show only stunted growth due to the so-called soil fatigue or reproduction disease. Also pay attention to sufficient planting distances.