Rose Omazh and Barbara (Hommage a Barbara) - variety description
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This flower is beautiful in every way - a delight rose! Hommage a Barbara is translated from French as "Homage to Barbara". This variety has been cultivated by the Delbar rose-growing company by order of the Perlimpinpin-Barbara association.
The rose is named in honor of the famous French singer Barbara (Monique André Cerf), who conquered the whole world with her incredible voice, piano playing and sense of style. These flowers have always accompanied the creative path of the talented Monique. Нommage a Barbara is the pinnacle of Delbar's work with red roses.
Rose Omazh Barbara (Hommage a Barbara)
The deep velvet red color of the rose is darkened at the edges, and in the rays of the sun the inside of the petals shimmers with gold. This reflection is like the light of the spotlights that illuminated every performance of the singer. Florists insist that the color of the bud is beyond words. The draped curves of the petals that cover each other are similar to the folds of Monique's chic evening gowns. Their unusually dense body in the center suggests the mystery of the bud of hommage a barbara. The rose, even with its full disclosure, does not allow the stamens to be seen.
Rose with golden reflections
Blossoming of the rose is abundant, long-lasting, remontant. The flowers are large with a diameter of about 8-10 cm. They are often collected in clusters of 3-5 pcs., Less often - more than 10 pcs. Ommazh and Barbara pleases her owners with buds until the very frost - it can bloom from the end of May to October. For at least a week, even in the very heat, each flower keeps. The bush is constantly covered with buds. Even a dying flower looks very aesthetically pleasing and does not spoil the overall picture.
The bush is beautiful in itself. Its average height is 80-90 cm. Leaves are dark green, glossy, with teeth at the edges. They are located very compactly. The bush serves as a decoration for any garden composition, especially in the company of perennials. The flower is cultivated on borders, flower beds; they decorate walls, fences, gratings.
Rosa homage and barbara looks spectacular both in a group and solo. The position of the flower in single-varietal rose gardens is incomparable. When decorating the landscape, Ommaj a Barbara is combined with shrubs: barberry, boxwood, conifers. "Friends" of the variety are flowering: foxglove, delphinium. For a color combination with such roses, plants with silvery leaves are planted: wormwood, purse, and burgundy - black cohosh.
Barbara in garden decoration
Rose Hommage a Barbara - floribunda. She inherited color intensity from hybrid tea roses, and resistance to specific diseases and frosts from polyanthus roses. The plant practically does not react to the scorching sun. With her resistance to fungal infections and low temperatures, Ommaj a Barbara is comparable, perhaps, to the varieties of English roses by David Austin.
The only possible drawback of a flower is the lack of expression of its aroma.
Growing a flower: how to plant it in open ground
You can land Ommazh and Barbara in spring and autumn. Autumn planting is better tolerated by the plant if the daytime temperature remains within 10-15 ºС, and at night up to 5 ºС. However, planting in spring increases the chances of the bush for the subsequent successful wintering.
Preparation for planting bushes begins with leveling the site. An area with a slight slope is ideal. Excess moisture will be removed from it. Florists take into account the pH value. For this rose variety, soil with a slightly acidic level (pH = 5-6) is suitable. The introduction of peat into the soil is important. Alkaline soil needs the addition of peat, acidic - peat with alkali. Loam is ideal for a rose. It is loose enough to allow air and moisture in the right amount to pass through to a depth of 10 cm. Heavy clay soils and overly light sandy soils should be avoided.
Naked sapling
For planting are offered:
- naked roses (seedlings) with an open root system. This type of landing is preferable to container landing. Bushes extracted from the ground are usually sent by mail. It is better to plant bare seedlings in late autumn (in November before frost), planting in early spring is possible (in March).
- active container or nursery roses. They are more expensive than seedlings and less resistant. But they are available for sale all year round. They can be planted at any time of the year (when the ground is not frozen), but planting in spring or early summer is recommended.
Before planting, the roots of the seedlings are disinfected. Rose Hommage Barbara lands in the hole. Its size should be 2 times the size of the plant roots. Pour at the bottom: fertilizer or compost, a spoonful of wood ash, a little top layer of earth. Of the listed components, a mound is formed at the bottom of the hole.
Rose Homage and Barbara
The landing procedure is as follows:
- Place the root of the plant in the center of the hole (a distance of 30-60 cm should be maintained between the bushes). The roots of the bush should be at a 45º angle, not parallel to the surface.
- Place a cane on the surface to mark the top of the bore hole.
- Check the location of the junction of the varietal flower with the stock. It should be immersed 3-5 cm deep (this will reduce the likelihood of death).
- Do not disturb closed roots, open ones - carefully distribute over the area of the hole.
- Gently fill the hole with soil mixed with organic fertilizers.
- Compact the soil around the seedling with your hands, make a watering roller.
- Pour around, but not at the root.
Diving into the hole when landing
Plant care
The rose is quite moisture-loving, you need to water the plant at least once a week, in the heat - two is better. The intensity of watering is also associated with the phases of development of the bush; the most active - during the growing season, up to the first blooming of flowers.
One-time water consumption per bush is about 10 liters. The water should not be cold, settled. Be sure to loosen the soil after watering. Before winter dormancy, the last watering should be at least 30 liters per plant.
Fertilization is one of the most important components of rose care. Organic and chemical feed should be used. With proper planting of a rose (wells with a nutrient mixture) in the first year of life, it is not necessary to additionally fertilize it. If the planting was carried out in ordinary soil, then the young rosette can do with organic matter (mullein).
Rosa Ommaj a Barbara needs sanitary, shaping and rejuvenating pruning like any floribunda. The plant should have 3-5 buds in the first 12 months of life. The next year, the branches are cut by a third, and the three-year ones are completely removed. Floribundas are cut to half the length before wintering.
Pruning
Correct, regular pruning will help to form a compact shrub that holds its shape well, called a round habit.
A rose transplant should be done either in early spring or early autumn. In this case, you need to cut off all the buds and cut off the shoots up to 50 cm in length. You can help a plant survive stress by watering it abundantly.
Hybrid tea rose Barbara
It is advisable to cover the bush in the winter months, since the plant has an average frost resistance. To do this, use a frame made of strips and tighten it with corrugated cardboard or burlap. As an option - additionally insulate the roots of the plant with dry foliage and ephedra. Young bushes can be covered with cardboard boxes, placing bark inside the newspaper.
During the flowering period, the plant needs formative pruning, the removal of "defective", faded buds, which take food from the bush. Intense and lush flowering is facilitated by additional feeding. Organomineral fertilization of the bushes gives a positive result. Such "food" is introduced in liquid form, for example - 1 liter of mullein per bucket of water. During the period of budding and flowering, potassium sulfate (30 g per bucket of water) and calcium nitrate (1 tablespoon per 10 l of water) are additionally introduced into the soil.
Flowering period
For better preparation for winter, dry flowers are not removed in the fall, this helps to reduce the activity of the plant. From the middle of summer, phosphate fertilizers are stopped, since it delays the growing season.
It is known that every shoot of a healthy rose must end with a flower. And if this is not the case, some nuances are possible:
- you need to remember when the plant was planted. Roses of the first year of planting do not always bloom, they can "hurt";
- perhaps the bush has aged. It is important to remove old shoots that are more than 3 years old;
- nutritional mistakes can prevent your favorite rose from blooming. It is necessary to give the plant a top dressing containing potassium and humates along with trace elements;
- for a rose to bloom, you need to fight diseases in a timely manner;
- it may be worth replanting the bush. Rose is a southern plant, and flowering can be affected by a lack of light or excess moisture.
Flower propagation
Rose Barbara reproduces well by cuttings, and seed propagation is not suitable for her, as well as for other hybrid varieties. Cuttings are often used by novice gardeners. This method is simple and inexpensive.
Cuttings for propagation of roses are harvested from lignified shoots in the middle of summer. With the help of a secateurs, the upper part of the cutting is cut at an angle of 90º and covered with activated carbon, and the lower one, at an angle of 45º, is treated with Kornevin. The length should be 10-15 cm. Annual shoots 0.5-0.7 cm thick are suitable for grafting. They can be planted in autumn or stored until spring.
Cuttings
The cuttings are immersed in the prepared soil and covered with a non-woven cloth or cut plastic bottles are put on them. In this state, the bush develops over several months.
Diseases, pests and ways to control them
The most common fungal disease in roses is black spot. Due to the formation of dark spots on the leaves, they turn yellow and fall off. For this lesion, only preventive measures are effective: correct planting and care, rational pruning. Treatment of plants with fungicides is important: Gumistar, Fitosporin-M, Topaz, Strobi. They are also used for other diseases that the Ommage Barbara rose is susceptible to, such as: powdery mildew, gray rot, rust.
The worst enemy of roses is aphids. Plants are often attacked by nutcracker, which forms swellings on the petals and leaves. Flowers and buds also spoil the larvae of the rose sawfly, thrips. To combat all of the above pests, general-purpose insecticide preparations (Biotlin, Iskra Zolotaya, Confidor Extra) are suitable. They "work" for several weeks after treatment, remaining in the tissues of the plant.
Thus, the Omage Barbara rose is a popular plant that will be an excellent decoration for the garden. It is used for modern installations and decoration of park areas. Rose requires compliance with the rules of care.
