English rose GEOFF HAMILTON – fast growing rose. It blooms with a slightly fragrant, soft, warm pink color scheme with rosettes assembled in small brushes. The fragrance consists of notes in the style of vintage roses and apples. The branched, healthy and exceptionally stable rose GEOFF HAMILTON got its name in honor of one of D. Austin’s old friends, who spoke a lot as a gardener on television.
- Group – English Roses (English Roses)
- Subgroup – English leander hybrids
- Main form – bush (srab)
- Height – 1.2 m
- Diameter – 0.9 m
- Shrub shape – oval-rounded
- Flower color – soft pink
- Number of petals – 110
- Flower shape – cup-shaped rosette
- Flower size – 10 cm
- Blossom form – cluster
- Blossom type – repetitive
- Aroma – soft
- Foliage – large, dark green, leathery, shiny, abundant
- Shoots – upright, can slope under the weight of flowers, with thorns
- Features – during long wet weather with low temperatures and flowers may lose decorativeness
- Resistance to powdery mildew – high
- resistance to black spot – high
- cold resistance – 5 – 11 USDA zone
- breeder – D.Ostin
- Soil – all types
- pH – may be slight variations from the neutral
- Drainage – Mandatory
- Plot – solar / penumbra
- container – yes
- Stamb – yes
- Types of planting – mixed plantings, hedges, container, pots
Caring for a rose GEOFF HAMILTON like this:
- Planting for roses is the most important step in the care of them. Plants prefer sunny areas with well-arranged drainage. They grow on almost all types of soil. The ground must be loose to allow enough water and air to flow to the root system.
- Watering. Roses are watered as needed – from 10 liters of water to 1 adult shrub on average 2 – 3 times a week. In dry times, watering increases. If the plant grows in a container, then watering is usually more frequent. In both cases, it all depends on weather conditions.
- Fertilizers of the English rose GEOFF HAMILTON are fertilized at least 2-3 times during the growing season. It can be both mineral fertilizers and organic. Even roses give mineral complexes, which are introduced by spraying. For roses growing in pots, fertilizing increases, but the doses used are lower.
- Pruning roses depends on the group to which it belongs. They do pruning twice: in the summer, faded parts are constantly pruned to stimulate the emergence of new flowers, and in the fall, winter or early spring pruning is done to form the plant and prevent diseases or pests hiding under the bark of the plant. The GEOFF HAMILTON pot rose is also pruned.
- Loosening and weeding the soil around the rose bush is needed for air circulation, moisture and nutrients for the root system. To minimize your work, use mulching. This agrotechnical technique will help reduce the number of weeds and leave the soil moist longer. This applies to container roses.
- Shelter for the winter is especially necessary if the freezing temperatures are very low or in winter there are frequent long-term thaws that are abruptly replaced by minus. Be sure to cover the roses growing in pots.
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Enjoy your growing!