Dutch rose - harmony of beauty

Dutch roses are considered the bestsellers among all known rose varieties. They owe their popularity to the beautiful flowers of all tones and shades with a delicate odor on even long shoots. A variety of color palette from maroon almost black to delicate white allows you to choose a variety to your liking.

Dutch roses are not even a variety, but belonging to a country that has long been considered the selection capital of the whole world. Breeders in the Netherlands are breeding the best, beautiful and resistant varieties using new technologies and modern methods.

Today, in our summer cottages, you can find famous varieties of Dutch selection:

• Grand Prix (GrandPrix) - graceful burgundy beauty on a long stem up to 1m hybrid tea selection.
• Aqua is a lilac-pink flower with a diameter of 11 cm on a stem without thorns.
• Talea is a soft ivory rose of captivating beauty.
• Black Baccara (BlackBaccara) - black outlines against the background of maroon buds with pointed petals.
• Terracotta (Terracota) - two-tone buds of coral-orange color with a delicate pink tint amazes with a wonderful aroma.

Growing a Dutch rose

A bouquet of Dutch roses has long been considered a symbol of love, a sign of great respect and gratitude. How often we are tempted to have a bush of an amazing rose in our garden, which struck our imagination in a bouquet. Any kind of Dutch rose reproduces well from cuttings , but you need to know a few rules and choose the most correct breeding method.

If you decide to grow your favorite rose variety from a donated bouquet in the cold season, be prepared for the fact that the grown self-rooted bush will be less frost-resistant than the grafted one. Freshly cut shoots of roses from nearby greenhouses are suitable for grafting, since imported Dutch roses undergo chemical preservative treatment, which stops their wilting and preserves the appearance of the flower.

• For cutting cuttings, we take only that part of the shoot where the leaves have five plates - this is the most viable part of the stem. We prepare cuttings with three buds, make an oblique lower cut from the bud by 3-4 cm. Above the upper kidney, after 1 cm, we make a straight cut. We completely remove the bottom sheet, cut the remaining sheet plates in half.
• Pour melted or filtered water with the addition of growth preparations into prepared plastic transparent glasses and put cuttings in them, protecting them from direct sunlight. After 4 weeks, thickenings appear on the oblique cut - the rudiments of the roots.
• We plant the cuttings in pots with soil and cover them with empty glasses. In a month, the first shoots from the buds will appear, but you should not remove the shelter. Delicate shoots can die in the open air.
• If the time for planting in open ground did not come up, and buds appeared on the cuttings, it is better to remove them and allow the roots to develop.

Important: when growing Dutch roses from cuttings in a room, they must be frequently sprayed 5-7 times a day in the first weeks, then 3 times.

Easy landing method

The easiest way to propagate is autumn cuttings, when cut different varieties of roses are available for sale. For planting, we select semi-lignified shoots and cut the cuttings, on which 4-5 buds are located.We plant the cuttings immediately in a trench at an angle into the soil prepared in advance, adding sand, peat, wood ash, superphosphate and potassium nitrate to it. We cover all the cuttings with plastic bottles or glass jars and leave for the winter. In the spring, we begin to take care of the established cuttings: we water, loosen the ground and create favorable conditions for building up the root system.

Growing Dutch roses in a greenhouse - video