I think it would be fine for this. When I purchased mine from Ashdown a few years back Paul told me to let it climb a fence..about 4 feet he said. Unfortunately that one bit the dust but I have repurchased it to "climb" a fence in my yard

I got Nahema this year, so also a bit curious how it will grow, but what I understood from the nursery description, it is rather upright growing, similar to Eden. Not sure though how reliable is that description, but generally Nahema should be much smaller rose than City of York.

Thank you both for your advice! I will carefully consider it.

Does anyone else have any thoughts to share?

I've ordered Nahema this year.From what the nursery lady said about it, it can be grown as a shrub and even in a pot, it gets flowers all over the plant. She was full of praises for it and said that it smells wonderful and is used in bridal corsages. I gather it can be used the way you want it, though I'm not experienced with climbers as yet. I do have Eden, which is about 3 months old, it has very lax canes, that can be trained easily, as far as I can see.
Sanju

Sanju, you might want to work with Eden canes while they are lax. ;) In our local nursery they have an old Eden, probably 15-20 years old, and it is definitely stiff as a tree, with thick fat canes.

I also read somewhere that Nahema can be grown as a shrub. Some site listed its height from 150 cm to 300 cm, so that would be about 5-10 feet (v. accurate... not), but it makes it something between large shrub and a small climber. I just hope it is not too stiff, so I can train it on a corner of the arbor.

OMG! I'd better start tying the existing canes to the trellis in that case. I just have one fairly thick one, the others aren't long enough. Thanks!
Sanju

Hehe, it is healthy to have a walk in some rose garden during the winter season, when there are no blooms to distract from the size/thorns/habbit of a plant. Makes one to reconsider ordering some... monstrosities. :D

It can be grown as a large upright shrub or a climber. For a climber on a fence or arbor train the canes while they are young and pliable. They will stiffen up over time. As a shrub for me it I kept it into the 5'-6' range and it self-supported nicely when managed that way.

The flowers are to die for and in my no spray garden a very clean and healthy plant.

That's good to know that it is healthy with no spray, I planted it in a rather central place, so I very much hope for a healthy foliage. :)

Mine finally decided to bloom! The flowers are to die for indeed, very soft and glowing pink, very delicate and elegant. I can see why they use it for bridal arrangements, it definitely is one of the best pink roses I have ever seen.

Growth so far stays very upright for me and she did not grow very vigorously, but decent enough for a new plant.

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And here she is fully open. :)

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Do you think it would be difficult to train the new canes laterally along a 1m high cast iron fence? Do you think if I trained the canes that way it would constantly fight with me, always trying to send vigorous new vertical stems along those laterally trained canes, or would it probably only send flowering laterals (as I would like it to do)?

It does not look like it is very vigorous grower so far, two canes that I have seem to be flexible and does not get side shots so far. Overall I have an impression that it will be more typical HT kind of climber, in a sense that if she gets side shots, they will be short flowering ones, definitely not 2 meter laterals.

I think with her bigger question would be if she is high shrub or a climber, rather to worry about laterals.

Does this rose produce hips?

How did Nahema do for you?

Mine did well in a pot, but croaked this year after being put in the ground.