Rosa Blanc Meillandecor - cultural characteristics

Charming roses with white flowers and compact shrubs, Blanc Meidiland (Meidiland, rose White Meidiland) are often used to create landscapes in a sophisticated Old English style. Such plants look good on the banks of artificial reservoirs. Its stunning appearance and relative ease of care are the reasons for the popularity of the variety.

Brief description of the variety

Rosa Blanc Meyandecor is a guest from France, the variety was bred in 1987. Refers to ground cover, that is, creeping. Therefore, it is often used by summer residents to create exquisite soil carpets decorated with bright white spots of lush flowers.

Rose bushes Blank Meyandecor will adorn any garden plot

Distinctive characteristics of the plant:

• dense, wide, but very neat bush up to 90 cm high. Spreads 0.8 meters;
• shoots are thick, tough, pale green color. They are abundantly covered with thorns, so all work is carried out carefully;
• leaves are rich green, glossy;
• Terry flowers, exclusively white in color, devoid of aroma. The average diameter is 6-9 cm. The number of petals is 60-70;
• collected in inflorescences of 5-9 flowers.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantages of the White Meidiland variety are:

• Frost resistance (the plant is able to withstand frosts up to -40 degrees).
• Immunity to rainy weather.
• Relative resistance to popular rose diseases: black spot and powdery mildew.
• Attractive look of double flowers.
• Re-flowering. The rose will delight the owner with flowering several times per season.

The disadvantages of the variety include:

• The need to carefully choose a place for planting, the plant is harmed by the shade, but direct sunlight can cause burns.
• Overgrown shrubs must be cut off, otherwise the risk of diseases and the appearance of parasites increases.

Landscape compositions with bushes Blank Meyandecor look very interesting and stylish

Use in landscape design

Rose White Maidiland is used to create unusual landscape compositions. In addition, the bushes are planted on the lawn as single plants. They can be an exquisite decoration for paths, flower beds, and are great for decorating slopes. Creeping bushes are planted not only directly in the ground, but also in flowerpots, where they look especially impressive thanks to their hanging branches, abundantly decorated with white tassels. They are used in alpine slides, rockeries.

To complete stylish compositions, the neighborhood of roses can be:

• irises;
• bells;
• thuja;
• daisies.

Features of growing a flower

Ground cover rose Blanc Meyandecor is increasingly purchased by gardeners to decorate plots.The variety is great for the middle zone and even colder regions due to its frost resistance.

Rose bushes look good on a background of stones

In what form is the landing

Planting a Madiland rose is done by saplings or seeds. The second method is considered more difficult, since obtaining seed requires a certain amount of experience. The seeds are visually similar to buckwheat, black or dark brown in color.

Saplings are obtained from their own bushes or purchased at retail outlets. For summer planting, seedlings are bought in special containers, for autumn and spring planting - with an open root system. You can buy roses, for example, in the well-known nursery "Topalovich Brothers".

What time is the boarding

Autumn - the second half of October is best suited for planting seedlings. Plants need 2-3 weeks before frost to complete rooting, and in the spring they start active growth.

Roses Blank Meyandecor are unpretentious in care, but the place and time of planting must be chosen very carefully.

Location selection

The French variety is easy to care for, but picky about the choice of the place of "settlement". It is important that fruit trees do not grow nearby, in their shade the bushes will be uncomfortable. However, an area that is abundantly heated by the rays of the sun will not work - the leaves are prone to burns. It is best to plant roses on the east or west side, a light openwork shade is needed, but good illumination.

How to prepare the soil and flower for planting

When choosing a seedling, you should pay attention to the following features:

• Dense root system, branched.
• Leaves without spots.
• Strong shoots.

Before planting, the seedling is cut, leaving 3-5 buds. Rotten roots are also removed, before being placed in the planting hole, the root system is immersed in an aqueous solution of "Kornevin" for 12 hours. Then the roots are moistened in clay, to which a little cow dung was added (proportion 3: 1).

A responsible approach to planting is a guarantee that the bushes will further bloom with abundant flowering

Site preparation for planting includes the following operations:

1. Digging a hole measuring 60x60x70 cm.
2. Drainage is laid in the pit, it is made of gravel, small pebbles, bricks.
3. The next layer is a pre-prepared mixture of soil and organic fertilizers. You can use this option: 2 buckets of garden soil, a bucket of clay, one bucket of peat, fine sand, humus. Bone and dolomite flour is added for fertilization.

Planting procedure step by step

The process of planting Blanc Meillandecor rose seedlings is as follows:

1. Straighten the roots and place the seedling in the center of the hole. The root collar should remain 4 cm below the soil layer.
2. Sprinkle with earth and tamp thoroughly.
3. Water the bush. It will take 10 liters of water.
4. Wait 3 days, then loosen the earth and huddle, the height of the earthen layer should be 10 cm.
5. After the first fresh young shoots appear, this layer of soil is removed.

Landing is best done in cloudy weather.

Plant care

The Blanc Meyandecor bushes are quite easy to care for, but it is important to follow all the necessary operations, then the flowers will annually delight their owner with a lush, friendly flowering.

Watering and feeding rules

The variety is not hygrophilous, moderate watering is sufficient 1-2 times a week, at the end of August and in autumn, irrigation is reduced.

Most often, three dressings are carried out:

1. Complex fertilizer - after the appearance of the first leaves.
2. Repeatedly - after 30 days.
3. In autumn - a composition with potassium content.

Rose White Maidiland prefers neutral or slightly acidic soils with good drainage, loams with a pH of 5.5-6.5 are ideal.

Pruning and replanting

Pruning white rose bushes is done at the end of winter when the plant is dormant. All leaves and dried flowers are carefully removed, this will help the shrub to gain strength before the new season. Dark brown and black stems are also cut to stimulate growth. Spring removal of old diseased shoots is allowed.

Features of wintering a flower

Despite its winter hardiness, the shrub needs preparation for wintering. The shrub is covered with spruce branches, agrofibre, film. In the spring, the shelter is gradually removed.

Blooming rose

Each gardener waits with excitement for a special moment - the blooming of a rose, when this plant becomes the true queen of the garden.

A period of activity and rest

Variety Blank Meyandekor refers to re-flowering, that is, it is ready to delight the eye with snow-white brushes of flowers from spring to late autumn. There are two distinct waves. The first is so abundant that the shrub becomes almost completely white, the dark green leaves are almost invisible behind the lush double flowers. The second wave is characterized by the formation of shoots a little over a meter long. Heavy flowers bloom on them, which is why these lashes droop.

The blooming period of the rose Blanc Meyandecor - the time when the garden transforms, becomes snow-white

Care during and after flowering

To stimulate flowering, shrubs are pruned, this contributes to the appearance of an additional number of buds. It is important to regularly remove faded flowers, as well as shoots infected with diseases and parasites.

What to do if it does not bloom, possible reasons

First of all, the lack of flowering may be due to the wrong choice of a place for planting, a violation of the care technology. In addition, fungal and bacterial lesions often cause the problem. To return abundant flowering, the shrub is transplanted, pruned, treated with an antifungal composition.

Flower propagation

Own-rooted breeding methods are used: cuttings, layering, dividing the bush.

When is it produced

The timing depends on the chosen breeding method. They are engaged in layering in the spring, cuttings are allowed to be cut a month before the planned planting, as a rule, the period coincides with the beginning of flowering (second half of June-early July). The division of an adult bush is carried out in early spring.

Process description

The most popular breeding method is green cuttings; rooting is carried out directly in the garden. Procedure:

1. Shoots are used one year old, the middle part.
2. The lower cut is placed in a growth stimulator for a day.
3. After that, they are planted in the ground at an angle of 45 degrees.

Diseases, pests and ways to control them

The Blank Meyandecor variety is quite resistant to lesions, but still needs preventive measures. Major diseases:

• Gray rot. It is characterized by the appearance of white bloom on the buds and pedicels. For prophylaxis, in May, a glyocladin tablet is instilled under the bush.
• Infectious burn. It may occur if in the spring the bushes were freed from the covering material not gradually, but simultaneously. The affected areas will have to be removed.

The main pests include aphids, May beetles, scale insects. They are fought with the help of chemicals.

The variety of roses Blank Meyandecor is ready to become a real decoration of the garden plot.Creeping shrubs will help to beautifully decorate slopes, flower beds, and complement landscape compositions with artificial reservoirs.