Rosa Nadia Meillandecor - characteristics of French culture

A French scrub rose with a subtle yellow hue of petals has been grown in Russian gardens for over 10 years. Of all the variety of varieties stands out for its splendor and extreme undemanding to the soil, wintering and care. The open bush is resistant to frost and disease, and blooms from spring to autumn.

Rose Nadia Meillandecor - what kind of variety is it?

The description of the variety says that officially this rose was included in the scrub category several years ago. In 2006, it was first introduced to the public at an exhibition in France. Interesting crown and abundant flowering, along with a special yellow-beige shade of petals immediately attracted the attention of collectors and gardeners. They say about him: "a rose in the Renaissance style."

Rosa Nadia Melandekor

Variety Characterization

Shoots of the bush grow not too long, 50-60 cm, sometimes up to 80 cm. At the ends 3-5 buds are formed. In terry flowers up to 100 petals. Corolla diameter up to 10 cm. The color of the petals is bright yellow. The buds open slowly, and in their bloomed form they hold for 5-6 days. The leaves are large dark green shiny. Shoots densely leafy.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The roses have many advantages:

• pleasant aroma and plentiful renewed flowering;
• high growth rate;
• blooms all summer;
• winters well in the regions of southern Russia, the North Caucasus, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories;
• disease resistance;
• can be grown as a groundcover or standard rose.

Disadvantages:

• shoots can lie under the weight of flowers and leaves, especially after rain;
• Needs watering and top dressing.

Use in landscape design

The variety combines the properties of climbing, groundcover and shrub roses. Therefore, it can be used as a tapeworm, as well as planted next to a support (pergola, stand, trellis), letting some of the shoots wrap around it, and part of it spread along the surface of the soil.

Flower growing

You can buy in the nursery a seedling grown from a shank, or grafted onto a dog rose. Cuttings are a 100% original bush that can withstand wintering only up to −30 ° C, and bushes grafted on dogrose hibernate even at −40 ° C with an agricultural cover of the crown.

Rose Nadia Meillandecor

The seedling can be with an open or closed root system. Its bark on last year's part should be brown lignified, but not wrinkled and without dark spots. Saplings with open roots in the evening are soaked in a little cool water to plant early in the morning.

Seat selection

The place is worth choosing so that a lot of light falls on it, there is support nearby, and strong winds could not break the branches. It is best to plant a little on an elevation, in the lowlands due to stagnation of water, the roots can rot.

How to prepare the soil and flower for planting

The marking of the pits for planting several bushes at once is done at a distance of not less than half a meter from each other, as well as from the supports. Any soil with a reaction of pH = 5.0-6.5 is suitable. But they cook it the same way:

1. Remove soil from the landing pit.
2. Mix it with sand, wood ash, humus.
3. Add 50 g of superphosphate and a little peat.

Landing procedure step by step

Step-by-step instruction:

1. A support is inserted at the bottom, to which the bush is tied up for the first time so that it does not warp as the soil shrinks.
2. Sprinkle open roots with dry root.
3. Lower the seedling into the pit so that the scion place is above the soil, and if it is not there, then the neck is buried by 5 cm.
4. They fill the hole with prepared soil.
5. Abundantly watered and spud.
6. Mulch the soil.
7. For 10 days they organize light shading.

Hilling is raked after the appearance of strong green shoots.

How to organize plant care

It is no coincidence that scrubs are called park roses. They are extremely undemanding to care, invariably showing lush flowering.

Watering rules and humidity

Watering is needed only when the top layer of soil under the bush dries well. To do this, take the settled water, which warmed in the afternoon in the open air. When watering, they try so that the water does not fall on the buds, as this can spoil their beauty.

Top dressing and soil quality

The fertilizer process consists of three stages.

• Spring. When the kidneys wake up and bloom, they add nitrogen fertilizer, which stimulates the active growth of green mass.
• Summer. With an interval of three weeks, a complex mineral fertilizer is introduced with a predominance of phosphorus and potassium, but poor in nitrogen. This is necessary for the formation of buds.
• Autumn. In the first ten days of September, the last fertilizer is introduced - potash. It is necessary to strengthen the bark and prepare the bush for wintering.

Pruning and transplanting

Roses are transplanted only as a last resort, since the chances of survival are extremely small. To do this, you need to dig a bush to a depth of 60 cm.

Trimming is carried out in three types.

• Sanitary. It is carried out in the spring after thawing the soil. Remove the frozen and broken shoots during the winter.
• Formative. It is produced in August. The shoots of the current year are shortened to 40 cm. Too thin and weak side branches are removed, as they will not be able to survive the winter.
• Anti-aging. It is performed 1 time in 5 years in the spring. Shorten the entire bush to a height of 30 cm.

Features of wintering a flower

The best shelter of the bush, which will protect the young plant from severe frost and wind, will be a bunch of dry leaves, which are covered with agro-canvas or burlap and pressed with stones around the edges to the ground. Remove such a shelter after completely thawing the soil.

Flowering roses

The buds bloom gradually, but the bush always looks very elegant. On it at the same time there are many buds of different sizes and already fully opened flowers.

Rosa Nadia Madeiland on a background of green grass

The first flowers open in the first half of June. Flowering may occur later due to weather conditions. Without interruptions grade color until September. Then comes a period of rest.

Care during and after flowering

During flowering, it is important to remove all faded buds in a timely manner. This is important, since it is impossible to obtain seeds from them for reproduction, but the plant will still try to do this and spend energy. Dried flowers are cut off at the first bud under them. If you cut long stems all the time, then the bush will be greatly depleted.

What to do if it does not bloom

Lack of buds is a signal of a lack of nutrition. Nadia Meylandekor blooms well in partial shade, so rarely the absence of flowers is the result of severe shading. It is best to feed the bushes once again with a solution of an organic or complex mineral fertilizer.

Flower propagation

From a well-grown bush (2-3 years), cuttings can be cut for rooting. They can be immediately planted in a permanent place, choosing it in partial shade, where the sun is only part of the day, and the rest of the time is partial shade.

Cuttings are cut in the first half of June. By this time, the bush should already bloom. This year they take an escape with green bark from 1 cm thick. The crown is given with buds. The optimal size of the handle is 10-12 cm.

Rooting scrubs is best immediately in the open:

1. The handle should have 3 buds. A larger number of stalks can not be mastered, and a smaller one reduces the chances of rooting.
2. The upper leaves are left, shortening the length by half, and the lower leaves are completely removed along with the thorns.
3. The shank is buried in the ground just above the lower kidney at an angle to increase the root extension area. A preliminary cut is useful to dip in root.
4. Top cover with a glass jar or a clear plastic bottle with a cut bottom. Do not open the bottle cap.
5. Once a day, a jar or bottle is removed to water the stalk.
6. With successful rooting, after three weeks the jar can be cleaned, since the shoots will start growing.

Rooting cuttings of Meyang in the open ground

Diseases, pests and ways to combat them

The greatest harm to the bush can be done by aphids and leaf-eating pests. From them it is recommended to treat the bushes from the beginning of summer in the morning with solutions of actara or phytoerm with an interval of 2-3 weeks.

The variety is resistant to disease, but it happens that its shoots infect fungal diseases. For preventive purposes, in the spring it is worth treating all the bushes with a solution of copper sulfate. Also good reviews on the drug topaz - a broad-spectrum fungicide.

Many dream of decorating their site with a French rose scrub. Today there is such an opportunity - the Nadia Meillandecor variety is available for sale. It easily takes root and multiplies, blooms all summer and is unpretentious in care.