Cultivated dog roses have long been called park roses, which have a large number of varieties, differing in color and form of the bush itself. They are recommended to use when creating any landscapes in open areas in parks and gardens.
The popularity of park roses grows, because they are highly decorative, unpretentious in care, frost-proof and covered with a lot of spines, which naturally prevents the breaking of their branches or digging out a whole bush. But in addition to these qualities, when choosing what to plant, an important role is played by the appearance of the bush.
To help flower growers make the right choice of garden and park roses, in this article we will examine the main groups of varieties that exist now and their distinctive features.
All park roses are divided into old and modern.
Ancient varieties
Domestic varieties or actually dog-rose
A particularly popular sort of such flowers is a wrinkled rose, or rugosa, as well as its hybrids. Its distinctive features are:
- large flowers with a rather strong flavor, they can be white, pink, yellow or wine-red;
- repeated flowering during all three summer months, of which the most abundant in June;
- high resistance to frost and pests, especially powdery mildew.
Of its hybrids, the varieties developed by FJ Grootendorst, named in honor of him: Pink Groothendorst, Grootendorst Suprem, White Grootendorst, are especially distinguished.
Also, for the greening of open lawns it is recommended to use a rose of spinosysima, or prickly. She has an increased presence of thorns, which prevents breaking branches from the bush.
Foreign varieties
These include imported from Europe such varieties of park roses as English, Canadian, French, Damascus, cetifol and others. But the most popular are the first two groups.
English park roses. Bloom all summer, have a delicate aroma, need shelter in regions where there are severe frosts. These include:
- Abraham Derby;
- Benjamin Britten;
- William Shakespeare;
- Graham Thomas;
- Quadra.
- Canadian park roses. They are more frost-resistant than English, but do not tolerate drought in the southern regions. It:
- Morden Centennial;
- Adelaide Hoodless;
- William Baffin;
- Alexander MacKenzie;
- Captain Samuel Holland;
- John Davis;
- Prairie Joy;
- David Thompson.
Contemporary varieties
Shrubs or bushy park roses
Shrubs are called varieties bred by breeders from old. These include hybrids of the following roses:
- Cordesa,
- rugoza,
- musky;
- moyezi.
The most magnificent bush in such varieties:
- Caramell;
- Dornroschen;
- Graham Thomas;
- Pink Robusta;
- Rokoko;
- Sahara;
- Westerland.
A separate type of park roses is considered creeping, which are used to decorate fences, arbors and buildings.
Varieties of hanging garden roses
The peculiarity of these flowers is a very long flowering period from July to late autumn. Especially popular are:
- Henry Kelsey;
- Quadra;
- Dortmund;
- Flamencentz;
- Simpatia.
They are small-colored:
- Amethyste;
- Dorothy Dennison;
- Dorothy Perkins;
- Excelsa;
- Fragezeichen;
- Lyon Rambler;
- Vltava;
- White Fligh.
And large-colored:
- Antike-89;
- Compassion;
- Handel;
- Heidelberg;
- Lawinia;
- Ramira;
- Rimosa;
- Santana;
- Swan Lake.
Some believe that the best grades of park roses are bright red (they are also called scarlet), as this is the brightest coloring. In this case, you should pay attention to the Queen of the North, Adelaide Hutles, Champlain, Kordes Brilliant, Hansaland or Quadra.
Whatever kind of park roses you choose, so that they blossom beautifully and become an ornament of your garden, they need to be properly taken care of.