Rose New Dawn
New Dawn is an old climbing large-flowered rose, a hybrid of Wichurana. Bred in the American nursery "Somerset Rose Nursery" in 1930. In the same year it was represented by Henry A. Dreer in the USA. In Australia - "Hazlewood Bros" in 1932. Sport grade Dr. W. Van Fleet '. This is one of the most popular roses in the world and is one of the favorites of many gardeners.
The bush is branchy, spreading, well-thickened, reaches a height of 200 - 250 cm (in a favorable climate the plant can grow up to 6 meters), width - 200 - 245 cm. Shoots are strong, curly, vigorous, with thorny thorns. Leaves are glossy, medium-sized, green in color.
Terry flowers, 7 - 8 cm in diameter, contain about 40 petals. The shape of roses changes during flowering from a conical bud to a cupped one. The unopened bud has a deep pink color. The opened flowers are pale pink. They grow in loose inflorescences of 3 or more buds. As it blooms, open the middle with yellow stamens. On sunny days, the flowers become whitish, and in cloudy weather - pink.
The aroma of roses is fragrant, spicy, delicate, with a slight hint of apples, lasts throughout the season.
Long bloom, from early summer to late autumn.
Among the main measures for caring for a New Down rose, one can single out: sanitary pruning of roses in the spring, installation of supports and a garter, periodic fertilization, preventive spraying, moderate watering, and preparation of plants for wintering. To make the rose look neat, the faded buds must be removed, otherwise the petals will fly around and the ground around the bush will be strewn with them. It is recommended to tie the plant up, otherwise the flowering shoots will hang down. Old shoots are cut only if the bush needs to be shaped, since the rose blooms better on last year's shoots.
Medium resistance to black spot and powdery mildew.
The frost resistance of this variety, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), corresponds to zone 5b (minus 26.1 ° C).
The plant must be covered for the winter with spruce branches (spruce or fir, juniper branches) or a covering material (for example, lutrasil). This procedure is carried out after the first frost, after removing all the buds, foliage from the bushes and loosening the top layer of the soil - this will provide air access to the roots of the roses. The shoots are removed from the supports and bent to the ground on a bed of glassine and spruce branches, otherwise they will begin to rot in the melt water under cover.
Advantages of the New Down variety: good resistance to diseases and bad weather conditions, unpretentiousness, abundant flowering, shade tolerance; roses recover well after transplantation, excellent cuttings, can grow on poor soils.
Disadvantages: flowers fly around quickly; shoots are difficult to remove from the support due to the fact that they are very long and prickly.
This variety can be grown in a variety of ways. Long shoots branch out in all directions when they find support. Thanks to this, they can be allowed to curl along any support, for example, by creating a lively flowering wall on your own home. You can also run them on a wrought-iron balcony, decorative fence, roof of a wooden terrace or gazebo. You can grow them like a fluffy scrub, or create a flower arch on the frame at the entrance to the garden.
New Dawn is a wonderful rose with the most delicate flowers that will fill your garden with abundant flowering and aroma. Companions such as ‘Flammentanz’, ‘Schwanensee’, ‘Pierre de Ronsard’, ‘Rosarium Uetersen'. It also looks exquisite with floribundas like ‘Leonardo da Vinci',' Schackenborg ',' Baronesse ',' Gemma '. Thus, you can create a fluffy composition with pink-raspberry and coral tones. According to gardeners, this rose looks charming with blue-flowered clematis or curly honeysuckle, which can be put on the rose itself.
Other names for this variety: 'Everblooming Dr. W. Van Fleet ',' The New Dawn ',' New Dawn '.
New Down Variety Awards:
2001 - Birmingham Rose Society Spring Show (USA).
2000 - Combined Chicagoland Rose Society Show (USA).
2000 - Grosse Pointe Rose Society Show (USA).
2000 - Kansas City Rose Society Show (USA).
2000 - Reno Rose Society Show (USA).
1997 - inducted into the WFRS Rose Hall of Fame Hall of Fame.
I love climbing roses very much, but, unfortunately, in the Ivanovo region it is not so easy to grow them, or rather, to protect them from freezing in winter. I bought different varieties, but gradually they all grew up. Everything except New Down Rose. She showed herself perfectly in our conditions. It grows in my partial shade. Moreover, in the second year of planting, I decided to transplant her, which she endured, as if nothing had happened. It blooms somewhere in the middle or at the end of June and blooms for a very long time. Only in this cold summer of 2017 it bloomed a month later, but in very large flowers (this is how it responded to feeding with diluted yeast). A grateful and responsive rose. Very suitable for our area.
I have long dreamed of buying a New Down rose in my flower garden, as I read that it blooms continuously. And who would refuse that such beauty bloomed in his garden for the whole summer? Therefore, as soon as I saw it on sale, I immediately bought it. What a disappointment I had when the next year, having taken root and growing a good bush, she bloomed only once, at the beginning of summer. At first I thought that I got a re-grade. And then I found information that New Down is available in two versions - continuously flowering and once flowering. It happened because of the different rootstocks. Trying to slightly reduce its huge size, they began to graft it onto some kind of dwarf rootstock, which led to a single flowering. As a result, I had to give up my rose. Her dimensions are still huge, but she did not succeed in beauty. The flowers have a very delicate shade, pale pink. But the flower is half-empty, burns and flies around very quickly, does not hold rain. In general, only took up space. I don’t know if I’ll buy it again, even if it is blooming all the time.