Thanks everyone, it is good for me to face up to the truth, pot too small! HereâÂÂs my plan: to grow miniature climbing RainbowâÂÂs End in a pot until it gets too big, then put it in the ground. It comes only as a band so pot will be fine now, just $7.95 + priority mail from Burling Leong at Burlington Roses, no great fortune to try this. See picture below. I have a place just off the concrete that has lots of sun higher up but is too shady at ground level, shadows from trees and buildings. Judging by a 1 yr growth pic of this rose on the internet, it might be tall enough in 1 yr to go in the ground and get the sun it needs. Goal: plant it in the ground next spring after early blooming wild gladiolus has finished blooming and has not yet died back to the ground and disappeared from view. Last yrâÂÂs pic below dated 3/29/12. I do have the place marked but it will be easier to work on if I can see what I am doing. Might work? Thanks, Trospero, for saving me from a mistake. Thanks, Christopher, love the idea of Yellow Sweetheart, which I wish I could grow. Thanks, Jerijen, space below will be much cooler than concrete area where I was going to put the pot. Thanks, Seil, here is the spot. I am listing plant names to give you an idea of the light, which is much brighter higher up. Wild gladiolus and culinary ginger (dark leaf in middle) can be moved, native monarda fistulosa beebalm at left and liriope at right are duplicates and can go. Wooden support post to climb on just to left out of view, all support posts are in buried concrete which takes some space away from the plants. I can wrap wire around post & train rose. One concrete sidewalk in front of gladiolus and another sidewalk just barely visible as gray concrete area to the right, 2 ft square area for rose but probably good soil underneath concrete sidewalks. Possibly big enough? Thanks again, everyone, esp. for your patience since I have gotten OT from antique roses, much appreciated! River

Looks like Casino is the right choice. Thanks everybody! Carol, how does you friend's Casino bloom there in SC? You know what I mean. lol When in the spring does it start? Does it have a big flush and then nothing for a while, or steady blooms or??? Your climate is about as close to mine as I can get, so whatever hers does, mine will probably do the same. I want to make sure I match a good clematis to Casino's rhythm. Thanks! Gayle

(3rd attempt to post this) Ingrid & Suzy, thanks for the well-wishes. All is well and he goes home tomorrow. Minor wrinkle - I walked in today, and he had no memory of my being here yesterday, thought I had seriously abandoned him and something must be bad wrong with him. A little unsettling but after eating some solid food he seems more together. I guess morphine has some side effects. Ha! Suzy, yes, I was thinking near future. Trying to get a realistic perspective of what's in store for me. that's why I was asking about lopping them. It might be a choice of lopping constantly, fighting constantly and forever to tame them, or removal. After all, I'm only one mere woman and an aging one at that. Really do have to be realistic about these big monster roses. Newbies, listen up! It is ill-advised to plant a tea climber in an 8-ft wide ingress/egress space. Of course, most newbies must be smarter than this newbie! Sherry

I love Blairii No 2 and have it planted where it gets some shade in the afternoon. This rose is prone to mildew but I think it would be less prone if it got more water and had a thick mulch around the base. So I tried it and the mildew was less and more pronounced on it towards the fall. The man that hybridized Blairii No 2 also did two others. He called the first No. 1, the second No. 2 and the third ?......You guessed right, Blairii No.3 For such a beautiful rose you would have thought it deserved a better name. Here is Blairii No. 2 Just for interest, here is Blairii No.1 a short climber, also in my garden.