Defenseless beauties - roses without thorns. Description of varieties with photos
I wonder if there are varieties of roses without thorns? As it turned out, yes, today there are many varieties of roses without thorns.
They are great for arranging bouquets, popular among gardeners, as they eliminate the need to arm themselves with leather gloves every time a plant needs care.
In this article, we will consider just such varieties of roses with a detailed description and photo.
What does the namelessness in the name mean?
It is customary to refer to rose-free varieties as rose bushes with a complete absence of thorns, and those that have a small number of thorns on the stems. Moreover, they are softer and rarer than a regular garden rose and, often, are located in the lower part of the shoot. Thus, it is not difficult to choose a site for which you can hold your fingers and not get hurt.
Varieties and photos
Blushing bride
A variety of climbing roses that can grow up to five meters. Flexible stems are covered with dense, dark green, healthy foliage. Creamy white flowers are gathered in lush inflorescences. Long flowering throughout the season.
The aroma is not pronounced, the plant has a high degree of resistance to disease, great for decorating arbors, arches, fences. Winters well under shelter.
Alexandre Girault
Hybrid climbing roses, reaching a height of 3.5 - 5 m. It has a small number of spikes. The foliage is glossy, dark green. Flowers, carmine-pink saturated shade, the flowers have curved petals and reach a diameter of 5-6 cm. Appearing on the bush in abundance, fill the garden with a rich fruity aroma.
Due to its tallness, this variety has been successfully used to decorate arbors or any vertical surfaces. The plant has an average degree of resistance to disease and rain, tolerates shade, requires winter shelter.
Banksiae banksiae
Belongs to the group of climbing small-flowered roses. It reaches a height of 4-7 meters, the shoots are flexible and practically devoid of thorns. Elongated leaves, shiny. Flowering early and plentiful. Small white-cream flowers with a characteristic violet smell, collected in large inflorescences. The plant is weakly winter-resistant and needs good shelter.
Wartburg
The variety belongs to the group of multiflora hybrids. The overgrown bush has smooth shoots without thorns. Raspberry-pink, small, double flowers, not more than 2 cm in diameter, collected in 35-40 pieces in large, inflorescences. The flowering is plentiful, single, for 25-30 days.
Heritage
One of the best and most popular English roses. A modern, hardy, re-blooming multi-hybrid.The flowers are dense, heavy, pastel pink. The plant can reach one and a half meters in height. With proper care, the bush almost does not bare from the bottom, expands upward and is quite spreading.
Lush foliage and elongated arches of shoots are formed approximately in the third year of the plant's life. The foliage is dark green, large, shoots are practically devoid of thorns. The variety is resistant to precipitation, blooms only in sunny areas, does not tolerate even a slight shadow.
Mme Alfred Carriere
It belongs to the group of noiset roses. This old variety can grow up to five meters, has semi-braided, studless shoots. Flowering begins early, throughout the season the plant pleases with large delicate pink flowers with a delicate aroma. It does not tolerate cold, requires very careful shelter for the winter.
Maria Liesa
Tall variety, can reach three meters. The plant is powerful, with strong shoots with virtually no thorns. The leaves are dark green, small, pointed, glossy. Flowering is long, single.
Cup-shaped, double, raspberry-pink flowers with a white center and yellow stamens are collected in inflorescences. The plant perfectly survives precipitation and frost up to -25 degrees.
Marie-jeanne
Belongs to the group of low polyanthus roses, plant height does not exceed one meter. The bush is compact, almost without thorns. The foliage is dense, round, dark green in color. Small white flowers bloom in lush inflorescences at the ends of the shoots. The aroma of moderate severity. The shrub is resistant to disease, wintering under shelter.
Crimson Rambler
It is characterized by intensive growth, as a result of which, it is able to quickly braid surfaces. On average, the height of the plant is 4 meters.
It is preferable to plant on the south side, but this grade will quite cope with partial shade.The flowers are small, up to 5 cm in diameter, fiery-carmine-red color, collected in inflorescences of 40-50 pieces. Flowering once, lasts a little more than a month. The plant is odorless. In the presence of shelter calmly tolerates frosts up to -30 degrees.
Coat of arms rose
A tall-growing, up to four meters, hybrid of a climbing rose blooming throughout the season with bright pink fragrant flowers, collected in inflorescences of 3-5 pieces. Shoots with rare spikes and dark green shiny leaves. The plant tolerates partial shade, has an average degree of resistance to rain and disease.
Paul Trenson
A fast-growing rose with salmon-pink flowers similar to pompons. The first wave of flowering is very plentiful, after which individual flowers bloom throughout the season. The shoots are flexible, almost without thorns, covered with light green foliage. The plant can reach three meters in height, tolerates partial shade, has an average degree of resistance to powdery mildew and black spotting.
Growing Features
- In most cases, non-studded roses are tall, so growing them requires more space than classic rose bushes.
- Unlike an ordinary rose, a studless beauty is often climbing, which allows you to grow a flower on supports and easily lay long shoots for wintering.
- Roses without thorns obtained as a result of hybridization and therefore superior to prickly varieties in endurance and winter hardiness.
- Roses with smooth stems are characterized by flowering lasting all season, so they are great for urban gardening.
- Unlike an ordinary rose bush, a plant without thorns does not accept pruning well. It can stop blooming or die completely. For proper care, just pick off the faded buds.
Roses without thorns are in great demand. Varieties with smooth stems are actively used for landscaping kindergartens, schools and camps, boarding houses for the elderly.