The lushly blooming rose Abb Tide, becoming a decoration of the garden, will invariably attract admiring glances to itself. Purple-purple flowers exuding a delicate clove-apple aroma will not leave indifferent even the most demanding gardeners.
Variety Description and History
Ebb Tide - a rose that belongs to the group of floribund, i.e., bush roses with inflorescences. Floribunda are unusually beautiful and in no way inferior in competition to tea-hybrid varieties. Abb Tide was obtained by American breeders from Carruth in 2001. Also known as Weksmopur and Purple Eden.
Ebb Tide Flowers
The main characteristics of the variety are thick-laced flowers of a plum-smoky hue, formed by dense velvety petals. As the flower blossoms, the petals burn out in the sun and change color from juicy bright to lighter shades. The diameter of the flower is 9-12 cm. Inflorescences are racemose, consisting of 3-5 buds. The aroma is spicy clove with notes of apple. Compact bushes Ebb Tide up to 80 cm high. Peduncles erect without spines. The foliage is shiny, green, deep in color.
For your information! The disadvantages include average frost resistance quite common for roses. In the southern regions this can be quite enough, and gardeners in the colder regions are already used to sheltering their rose gardens for the winter.
Abb Tide is suitable for placement in flower beds, along paths, in mixborders. The neighborhood with barberry, dolphiniums, digitalis, hosts, miniature conifers, silver wormwood and many others is acceptable. Single bushes of this variety look spectacular in the middle of the lawn. It can be used for fencing, as well as growing in containers or in standard form.
Abb Tide in Landscaping
Flower growing
Purple Eden is a rose that requires careful selection of a site well lit by diffused sunlight, protected from the wind. Prefers light, loose loamy soils. When landing, operate as follows:
- the landing site is pre-dug, introducing organic fertilizers;
- prepare a pit with a depth and width of 50 cm;
- at the bottom of the pit lay a layer of small stones and pour a mound of earth;
- the seedling is lowered into the pit, straightening the roots;
- they fill up the hole and compact the soil so that the root neck is 2-5 cm in the ground;
- abundantly water the plant around the edges;
- after water absorption, the trunk circle is mulched with peat, straw or expanded clay.
Important! Floribund bushes should be planted at a distance of at least half a meter from each other.
Plant care
Throughout life, floribundas require many nutrients to form many buds and inflorescences. Therefore, it is most important when growing Abb Tide to ensure proper care and comfortable conditions: timely watering, weeding, fertilizing, loosening and mulching of the soil, autumn and spring cutting of the bush, removal of dry buds.
An adult bush needs moderate watering in the morning or in the evening twice a week (20-25 liters of cold water). In order not to water the plant too often, the soil in the near-stem circle is loosened and mulched a day after moistening. As a top dressing in the spring, organic fertilizers are applied under the Ebb Tide bush, and phosphorus-potassium concentrate is used during budding and flowering. Weeding weeds under a rose bush helps preserve nutrients in the soil.
Pruning roses
In order to rejuvenate Ebb Tide, the bush must be cut off. In the spring, it is enough to leave 4-5 shortened shoots on the plant. Weak and dry branches are removed completely. In the autumn, all branches are pruned slightly at the bush.
Important! A plant grown in regions with frosty winters needs to be covered after autumn pruning. To do this, the leaves are removed, the bush is spudded with earth to a height of about 25 cm and covered with spruce branches, oak foliage or non-woven material.
The Abb Tide stamp form is cut like a shrub. If this is not done, then the branches will become too long, and the bush will lose its shape. Sheltering the booth for the winter, it should be bent to the ground, and then insulate.
Note! Seedlings of standard roses are obtained from rosehip grown for four years. When buying a ready-made booth, you should definitely study the detailed description with a detailed care algorithm.
Flowering roses
Rose Ash Eden, as described, is re-flowering. The bush blooms, from June to the end of summer, magnificent, long. To prolong this, at the time of growing green mass and a set of buds, water the rose should be more abundant. In addition, the plant responds well to additional specialized fertilizer for floribund. Subject to these rules, the rose necessarily blooms.
Flower propagation
The best way to propagate floribund is by grafting. To do this, woody shoots are cut into cuttings 8 cm long. At the same time, the upper cut is made even and the lower cut at an angle of 45 °. Seedlings are placed in holes with a diameter of 15 cm, drip and cover with a film. The distance between the holes should be at least 20 cm. Cuttings are regularly watered, loosened the earth around them, fed and “allowed to breathe” by removing the film. In winter, cuttings, like adult plants, are sheltered. Inflorescences of the first year after planting are necessarily removed, giving the bush a good root. You can transplant a young plant to a permanent place after three years.
Cuttings of roses
Diseases, pests and ways to combat them
Roses floribunda, including Abb Tide, most often suffer from black spotting, rust and powdery mildew. Of the pests, the most characteristic of them is bronze, rosaceous aphid and rosacea sawfly. To protect the rose, it should be treated with insecticides and fungicides 2-3 times per season for prevention. Spraying reduces the risk of pests and diseases.
For fans of unusual floral colors, the rose Perple Eden will be listed as a favorite as soon as the plant enters into force (from about 2-3 years of life). Continuous flowering of this variety will be pleasing to the eye throughout the summer and autumn.
