Rose Eyes for You

Rose Eyes for You is considered unusual and rare. Wide petals can be confused with the flowers of a tree-like peony, but thorns on the shoots will tell you that it is a rose. This flower is beautiful in a single planting, but it can also be planted in a rose garden next to other varieties of roses Larissa, Jeanne Moreau, Burgundy Ice, used to decorate landscape compositions. Suitable for growing in different climatic regions.

The history of the appearance of the variety, a short description

Ice for yu is a rose bred by the English breeder Peter James, who crossed two varieties - Persian Rose and Blue for you. The new hybrid is mesmerizing with amazing color. Unopened buds are creamy with a dark lilac top. A blossoming Ice Pho Yu flower of the most delicate shade of lavender tone, its center is bright red, the middle is yellow, from which black stamens rise.

Beauty Ice Fo Yu

The stems have straight vertical shoots that can reach a height of one and a half meters. They are covered with bright green glossy leaves that hide under flower clusters consisting of 7 buds.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Gardeners call many positive qualities of the Ice Fo Yu rose, the main among which is the unique color scheme. Other pluses:

• The specimen can bloom not only in the sun, but also in partial shade.
• Blooms continuously and profusely throughout the summer season.
• The variety is very resistant to the main diseases - powdery mildew and black spot.
• Rose Eyes for You is unpretentious in leaving.

Among the negative points, one can note the need for shelter for the winter in areas with a cold climate, but if the plant is covered carefully, then it will endure severe frosts. The second drawback is called by gardeners of southern latitudes - continuous falling of petals during flowering and fading of flowers in the sun.

Ice variety in the garden

Growing Rose Ice

Many gardeners consider the beauty with the exotic name Ice to be an unpretentious plant, but she is very demanding on the spot. The plant should be well lit by the diffused rays of the sun.

About the propagation of a rose bush

The easiest way to plant a new specimen is to buy a grafted stalk at a specialized store. You can try to grow a Drift rose with cuttings:

1. Cut healthy shoots in early spring. The length of the handle is 20 cm.
2. Wrap the cuttings with newspaper, pour over them with water and place in the cellar. After about a month, the cuttings should take root.
3. Now you should plant the cuttings in open ground, cover them with plastic bottles and water them periodically.

Many gardeners try to propagate the rose by layering. This process is autumnal:

• a trench should be dug parallel to the selected branch;
• bend the branch to the ground, fix it;
• cover the trench with earth.

Planting procedure step by step

Step by step instructions will help a novice gardener to plant a rose bush:

1. Prepare a square-shaped hole: the side of the square should be 60 cm, the depth of the hole should be 50-60 cm.
2. Cut all the roots of the seedling and place it in the composition to enhance growth and root formation.
3. Prepare the soil composition: the soil from the hole is mixed with sand and organic fertilizers.
4. Remove the plant from the solution, place it in a hole so that the root graft protrudes above ground level
5. Having straightened all the roots, cover the seedling with earth, gradually tamping the soil.
6. Water the bush thoroughly until the water stops going deep.
7. Form a tree trunk circle, mulch wet soil.

It remains to wait until leaves begin to appear on the shoots of a new rose.

Propagation of a rose

Plant care

When caring for a variety, several rules must be observed.

Watering

The rose is watered when it is not illuminated by the rays of the sun. She needs abundant watering once a week, in dry weather - 2-3 times.

Top dressing

The rose needs to be fed in early spring, during bud formation and after flowering. You should not feed with mineral fertilizers before wintering, because young shoots will not have time to get stronger.

Pruning

This procedure is carried out in the spring. In this case, weak shoots are cut off to 3-4 buds, strong ones are shortened to 15 cm.

Preparing for winter

Before the onset of frost, you need to dig up the soil around the bush, add ash, spud the plant and cover with dry grass, spruce branches, sawdust. In snowy areas, you do not need to shelter Ice Fo Yu: a thick snow cover will warm the beauty in winter.

Blooming rose

Eyes for you rose is considered to be a continuously blooming rose. With the onset of summer, the bush is covered with pale lilac flowers. After a while, the petals of some buds fall off, but others immediately bloom. The beauty shows her flowers only on sunny days, with the onset of night she hides them.

So that the abundant flowering does not stop before the onset of cold weather, you need to take care of the rose bush:

• loosen the soil;
• cut off dried flowers;
• water the plant systematically.

Why Ice Fo Yu does not bloom

This species is sometimes called a chameleon. Its bloom depends on growing conditions: weather, soil composition, location and lighting. If one of them is violated, then the rose will not bloom:

• Rose Ice Pho Yu is a child of the sun; in a cloudy and rainy summer, the gardener will not wait for abundant flowering.
• If a rose bush lacks lighting, for example, the trees growing nearby cover the branches of the rose with shadow, it will not bloom.
• If you do not feed the rose with fertilizers, then it will stop throwing out the buds.

Watering the rose

If you take into account the listed features, you can achieve an abundant annual flowering.

A few words about rose diseases

Like all plants, the Aes Fo yu rose can get sick. The causes of the disease can be:

• lingering rains;
• excessively dry summer;
• thickening of the rose garden;
• lack of sunlight;
• untimely removal of weeds.

Queen of flower beds

The list of common rose diseases is as follows:

• Powdery mildew develops in wet weather and covers young leaves and buds with a white coating. Control measures include treatment with copper sulfate emulsion. You can try a folk remedy - nettle decoction.
• The causative agent of black spot is activated when there is a lack of potassium. The harbinger of the disease is brown spots on the upper surface of the leaf.The plant is saved by spraying with a weak solution of foundationol.
• If there is high humidity during the growing season, then rust may develop - yellow-orange tubercles on the upper side of the leaf. Spraying the bottom of the leaf with a decoction of nettle, wormwood or Bordeaux liquid helps.

Rose gardeners strive to plant an extraordinary rose garden. They dream of hybrid roses that will not lose their attractiveness until the very frost. These requirements are met by the Ice Pho Yu variety - an exquisite decoration of any garden. She delights with incessant flowering, unique color of flowers, fragrant with a wonderful aroma.