The Antique Rose Emporium would be a great place to start. They have a garden here in San Antonio. We have been over 100 since early June. If it grows in their garden here in the summer, it should work for you there. They can advise you on which are best for containers in your area. Here is a link that might be useful: ARE

I love callas! That's great. It's not a water garden just that the container has as reservoir and so the plants in the container get evenly watered all the time. Clematis are nice but don't have the fragrance punch of a rose. The baby, a girl, is GREAT! She's settled in the household so well I can actually spend some time thinking about gardening. Pretty good with a third child. I have had to reject plants because they are poisonous. I have some lantana but they are sterile -- things like that (of course the sterile lantanas are ever blooming so that's a big plus too :)

I would say that container is way too narrow. Get yourself a REALLY big container -- Biggest one you can find. Think about the size of the TOP of the plant, and consider that it needs nearly that much root, to support it. Roses don't grow a long, narrow "taproot." They grow a network of spreading roots, so a pot shaped like that is not ideal. Also, one of those molded plastic pots is better than ceramic. (Yeah, I like ceramic pots too. But roses don't much like them.) Also, I recommend that you get a pot with many drainage holes. Then, set it up on three bricks (or fancy "pot feet") so that water can drain freely out of it. (Do NOT set it in a saucer.) If that is open dirt with mulch, next to the pot, you'd be better to set it there, than on concrete.

Dear all, I ended up with a white Mandevilla for the trash can spot. :-) Hope it will work well. It looks like it will climb up just fine but I am not sure how wide it grows. I may have to add another one there. I also plan to add a few other small annuals at at the base because the container will be quite large, but it should be fun seeing the Mandevilla climb up. As for roses...I am already up to 4: 1 old KO (it's starting to bloom again after restoration, but blooms are quite small and the foliage sparse). 1 Good Old Gold - recently planted...magnificent bloom, but definitely a variety with very short-lived blooms. 1 Dick Clark waiting to be added somewhere in the same bed where Good Old Gold went, just further away from the tree roots. I'd meant to return it until a nice poster here convinced me to wait. I am glad I did because once the bloom opened well, I could definitely see its beauty. Once it matures, blooms will be even larger. It's a keeper. 1 Climbing Pinkie on the way from ARE; it will go in the flower bed behind the deck rails to hopefully climb on it and spill over. Yes, vapor...I've already eyed a few more spots where I could add a few more roses in the future; but for now I am just trying to see how I will do with these four. It's a steep slope for me - since 2 weeks ago I had no idea it was even possible for anyone to grow roses in the South, other than a KO. The bed across the garage - where Good as Gold is and where DC will go too - looks rather empty but this is because it is full of tree roots. Normally, I would try to squeeze a lot more there, but it's so hard because of the thick roots everywhere. Trees are nice but not when they stay in the way of Divas like roses. :)