Beautiful lush bushes with red or dark pink flowers are a real decoration for any park or country house. You can use them to create spectacular flower beds and arches, braid fancy figured supports, or decorate the facade walls of buildings. We offer you buy In our flower shop we have the best examples of the Canadian park rose Alexander Mackenzie, a noble variety of cultivated rose hips, which will take its rightful place in a summer garden or greenhouse.
Description
Alexander Mackenzie rose flowers are distinguished not only by their spectacular appearance, but also by their amazing delicate aroma, reminiscent of the smell of ripe strawberries. Our online store offers rose seedlings that, when grown, will have fragrant crimson or dark red inflorescences with double heads with a diameter of 5-7 centimeters and a tulip shape. Spiny stems with dense, glossy leaves intertwine into charming long branches that climb onto nearby supports.
The height of the bushes reaches almost two meters, and the width of an adult bush is one and a half meters. The park rose Alexander Mackenzie was grown to decorate flower beds and park areas and blooms for a long time in two waves. Between these periods, the shrub also blooms, but sparingly, with single flowers. If you purchase a rose of this type wholesale, then you will not only save money, but throughout the summer and early autumn give yourself the aesthetic pleasure of contemplating your luxurious garden.
Growing and care
Parkovaya perennial rose Alexander Mackenzie does not require any particularly complex care. Before planting, purchased seedlings should be stored at low temperatures - from 0 to +3 degrees. Quality rose seedlings planted in open ground in early to mid-April and, in the presence of frost, insulated with a covering layer, which is removed with the onset of stable heat.
Rose loves varied feeding in the summer and annual spring pruning, when old dried branches are removed. With good watering and sufficient quantity sunlight The bush blooms profusely in several waves throughout the warm season, to the delight of you and those around you.
The disadvantage of this variety of park rose can be considered its demandingness regarding the condition of the soil: it loves well-loose, loamy soil, enriched with nutritious humus.
But the park rose has many positive qualities: it is not afraid of frost and can withstand temperatures down to -35-40 degrees; drought-resistant; she is not afraid of climate change. In addition, gardeners prefer this type of flowering park shrub for its ability to withstand the inherent this species diseases.
And otherwise, the Alexander Mackenzie rose pleases with the spectacular contrast of its powerful upright stems with wide dark green leaves and delicate double flowers with slightly drooping tips of the petals, as if nature itself had pre-collected them into beautiful bouquets of inflorescences. Create flower beds of unprecedented beauty - purchase the persistent Alexander Mackenzie rose for this. Delivery service is at your service.
Rose Alexander MacKenzie is red in color. The height of the bush is usually about 150-200 cm. The width is about 150 cm, sometimes more but quite rarely. Disease resistance Alexander roses MacKenzie: practically never gets sick.
Description: Alexander MacKenzie roses
Alexander MacKenzie is named in memory of the first naturalist to travel the entire Pacific coast of British Columbia. Blooms in clusters of 5-15 flowers. The flowers are bright red, double. The foliage is large and shiny. A bush with arched shoots, it can be grown as a spreading bush or a low climber. Sometimes in the second half of summer it is affected by black spotting. The variety requires pruning of dead wood in the spring. (ARE)The bush is erect, with gracefully drooping ends of the shoots. Elongated dark strawberry-red tulip-shaped buds open into classically shaped flowers with petals that bend downwards. The petals gradually fade to a dark warm pink color. Smells lightly of fresh strawberries. Blooms in waves. After rains, the outer petals may turn brown and dry out. Despite this, one of the most grateful roses. The variety is very resistant to diseases. (HR)Rose Explorer series. Cup-shaped flowers with a strawberry scent. Shiny, almost waxy foliage. A very elegant upright bush. Resistant to diseases. Very winter hardy. (GRCC)It’s not for nothing that the rose is called the “queen of gardens”! It’s a rare landscape group that can do without this blooming beauty; it’s a rare amateur gardener or summer resident who doesn’t plant at least one rose bush on their plot. Therefore, a great variety of them have been bred. Now let's talk about another of them - the Alexander Mackenzie rose.
History of creation
This variety was bred and introduced on the instructions of the Ministry agriculture Canada, at the Central Experimental Farm of Ontario, in 1985. The variety is named in honor of an outstanding person, a natural scientist, a Scotsman by nationality, who, it is believed, was the first to cover the entire North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Before this, he managed to visit the entire Pacific coast of British Columbia, studying the flora of these places.
Such well-known roses as Queen Elizabeth, Red Dawn and Suzanne took part in the creation of the variety.
Description of appearance and characteristic features
The result was a magnificent variety, known and in demand in many regions of the world. Mackenzie is classified as a typical remontant Canadian park rose, namely that part of them that is classified as Explorer roses. It has all their many advantages and small disadvantages.
Crown shape
The bush of this flower is powerful and tall (the average height is about 2 meters, but in some cases the shoots reach almost three). Thus, we can say that this is a typical “shrub” rose, which can be called semi-climbing. The width of the bush is also quite large, about one and a half meters. The shoots are erect, thick, and only at the very end do they gracefully droop; can decorate without additional support high wall Houses.
The foliage is dark green, large and shiny, with a waxy surface.
Features of flowering
The flowers are bright red, not very large (from 5 to 8 cm in diameter), but collected in large clusters of 5-15 pieces. Each flower is double, consisting of 20 - 40 petals. At first, young petals are lighter, but over time they darken, the redness turns into deep, blackish tones. Even the buds of this variety are surprising with their chiseled shape, reminiscent of a red tulip. A blooming rose emits a light but persistent scent, with obvious notes of ripe strawberries (some people smell raspberries in the scent).
Flowering is remontant, repeating twice per season. Between waves of flowering, single flowers also form on the bush. Minor drawbacks include the fact that after the rains, the outer petals often turn brown and dry out.
Features of agricultural technology
Like all roses of its “native” group, Alexander Mackenzie is distinguished by its unpretentiousness and increased resistance to disease.
Interesting! In 1998, in Montreal, a kind of “competition” was held among roses for resistance to the main diseases of the species. Our heroine showed excellent results, entering the top three, demonstrating an infection level of no higher than 5%.
The frost resistance of this variety, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), corresponds to zone 4. The rose can withstand up to -25° without shelter, and with light shelter - up to -40°.
The plant is quite demanding on soil quality, and this can be called its relative disadvantage. They should be rich in humus, constantly loosened well and saturated with air. The growing site should be well drained and should receive at least several hours of direct sunlight per day.
How to use it in gardening
This is a versatile plant! It can be grown as a solitary specimen that attracts the attention of others, but can also be introduced into a wide variety of landscape groups and plantings. As already mentioned, a rose can sometimes “pretend to be climbing”, decorating an arch, a high façade wall or canopy. Her bush will show off flowers for a long time, delighting the owner. With all these advantages, even a novice gardener who does not have deep knowledge and experience can cope with it.