Katie turned me onto Climbing rosa "Dublin Bay" a couple years ago and it is SMASHING and bs free in my gardens..also made loverly rose hips this past winter....it's my new favourite now...Jeanne

In my opinion Ramblin Red is a fushia red in the beginning of the summer and more of a true red at the end of the summer. Amy

Im trying Cl. Etoile de Holland this year but reports from our area suggest that this is a nice, disease-resistant fragrant red.

I had the Kordes climber Illusion which is my favorite red but its not an arbor rose unless you have a really big arbor.

Seem to both Illusion and Etoile De Holland!! How big do they grown and how fast?? Are both good repeat bloomers??

Dynamite is a good red climber... It is sold from Hortico under the name High flyer

Improved Blaze is another good red climber with stiff canes

Don Juan is my favorite...

Illusion is one of the best roses for our area. I used to have a pic but lost it when my computer crashed but its a big, bushy climber. It initially wants to grow sideways but gets over this trait eventually. It throws lots of basals, blooms continuously. The spring flush is something to behold, especially on its third year after it has built its size. Individual flowers dont have much smell, but the flowers collectively waft a sweet, raspberry fragrance. The leaves are bulletproof. I never sprayed this rose but I doubt that it lost a single leaf to blackspot. The funny thing is, I grew this rose against my deck, with Blaze on the other side. I had to keep hacking it to keep it from abducting small children. It has wicked, hooked thorns, like most hybrid kordesiis.

I was convinced by certain forumites from MD to try Cl. Etoile de Holland. I dont have it yet, but Im excited about growing it. I was enabled into it because aside from its fragrance, its suposed to be the most disease resistant fragrant red climber in the Mid-Atlantic.

Illusion sounds great but wish it had more fragrance. Does anyone grow Cl Oklahoma? I love regular Oklahoma...the color is so deep and beautiful, and the fragrance intoxicating.

I got a Fields of the Woods last year and it cranked out the blooms in its pot and stayed very healthy. It's really pretty, and vigorous. I'm looking forward to seeing what it does. I put it on my new picket fence.

I also have a Red Eden which also bloomed well in its pot and was gorgeous. Didn't ball. So I hope it will go up into my pear tree this year. I have a little cutting of Don Juan. I have a good plant of Dublin Bay which is grown without support. It's partly under a plum tree but still blooms very well and stays pretty healthy. I've been curious about Cl. Etoile de Holland for a long time...hope to hear how yours does, Aisha.

Linda

Would a light pink climbing rose work with that Etoile De Holland?? I would love that red but really wanted a light pink climber also. What might work with that red to compliment??

Etoile de Holland smells HEAVENLY. Dublin Bay does very well for me, I have 4.
Jess, a white. Sombrueil is one choice. I think light pink would do too.

Carla

Linda, how would you rate the fragrance on FIELDS OF THE WOOD?

Does anybody have any experience with CLIMBING CRIMSON GLORY?

Thanks,

Patrick

I bought a Climbing Cramoisi Superieur thinking it was the shrub form. I have heard good things about it, so looking forward to seeing what it will do. Anyone grow this?
Judith

Ok which one is a better bloomer Illusion or Etoile De Holland?? do they both grow about the same height?

Patrick, I don't remember much fragrance on FOTW. I grow Cl. Crimson Glory..it has a very good fragrance but not as strong as some others IMO. It does rebloom very well and is pretty bs resistant.
Linda

Illusion or Etoile De Holland are really very different roses, depends on what you want. Illusion is much more healthy and blooms much more, good repeat. Etoile De Holland flowers are much more rewarding and the fragrance is to fie for. However repeat is only moderate, if any and basically no resistance. One is a workhorse, another is a diva, you can't compare them.
Olga

I have never grown it, but I saw a Climbing Oklahoma some years ago in a rose nursery just a little ways out of Portland, OR, and I have never forgotten it. It was growing up a front porch post and over the porch roof, and it was magnificent! The red was wonderful, a true red - if it had a leaning at all, it was more toward the mere whisper of orange-red, not fuchsia at all.

Fields of the Wood.

Put me down for Fields of the Woods....I have it growing on an arbor. It is fragrant! The one I have came from Lisa at Countryside Roses. It is a Hurricane Katrina survivor, I bought it as Lisa was starting to recover from that storm.

As a matter of fact my poor FOTW just suffered a bit of a disaster...the arbor it is on blew down today in the damned March winds we are having. I ran out of the house cussing like a sailor....I'll bet the Baptists that live next door loved that! It's biggest cane broke off at the base so I had to do some impromptu pruning. I'm still ticked.

Carole

Here is photos of our daughters trampoline from the winds we are having here now!! Want to put a arbor in that is iron how do you tie these things down so this does not happen?????

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I've had both Don Juan and Dublin Bay.....both are a very pretty red climber....but Dublin Bay won out here for us.....lost Don Juan last winter .....Dublin Bay is more florific!

I live on the lake and we have very strong winds at times..I have all my Ironworks cemented into the ground...Jeanne

Cl. Etoile de Hollande is a very healthy, sturdy rose for me, in my area where blackspot isn't a problem. Mine doesn't rebloom, but then it isn't watered, fertilized, or pruned after its first flowering, either. As others have said, color and fragrance are stupendous. Obviously Olga's conditions don't best suit it, but it my climate it's a great rose.

Melissa

Melissa, you are right :). However the original poster is very close to me location wise in PA, so I assume the issues with EdH will be the same as in my garden.
olga

Olga,
I know. I just wandered off topic and seized the chance to point out (again) that it ALL depends on the gardener's growing conditions.
Melissa

Does Fields of Wood rebloom nicely??

I love Dublin Bay. Bloom machine but not much smell. Don Juan is also nice. Not as big a bloomer but more smell.

I love Don Juan,it is continuely flushing blooms and the smell is wonderful.The only draw back is having to spray alot for black spot.But with spray bottle in hand .....LOL!,I'll gladly do this through the growing season just for this beautiful climber. Suzanne

CarolFM has a beauty of a Don Juan on her arbor. It convinced me. lol

Fields of the Wood repeats much better for me than Don Juan.

I have my trellises and pillars on concrete too, otherwise, theyd be like your trampoline! Now Im interested in Fields of the Wood.