I really like Dr. Huey. I've got it growing on a rebar teepee. Also, I think it looks really good trained horizontally along the chainlink fence of my dog pen.

Robert

You have two choices... train it or cut it... Dr Huey has pretty lax canes so it would be easy to peg it after it blooms... The canes don't HAVE to go towards your neighbor. You can take each one and one cane at a time pull them towards your property and tie them down. There's a lot of info about pegging on the internet...

Another option is to run the canes along your fence line, you would tie on as many as you can and cut off the ones that won't comply...

If you want to keep it a short shrub, cut it back right after blooming. Next year's flowers will only bloom on canes that grow this summer... so if you cut it next spring you will have no blooms at all

I have to say, I like Dr. Huey. I dug up one of my grafted roses and moved it and didn't get all the roots. The past two years, I've been trying to get rid of the Dr. Huey that keeps coming up. But this year I got lazy and now it's blooming.

What a pretty rose! Blood red and great scent. Now I have to move it to a good spot.

It's a once bloomer, right?

Buford, yes, it is a once-bloomer. Although a small number of folks in the SE have gotten a late second bloom. I've never seen that here.

Dr H has a large spring flush and may have scattered blooms in fall. Around here its highly susceptible to BS (and it sure is ugly when nekkid).

The spring flush lasts a long time and I love the color of the blooms... Here it gets a little bit of PM but that's about it...

Dr. Huey was already growing --several of them, in fact--when I moved into this house some years ago. I let them grow for 5-6 years--loved those dark wine red (burgandy?) blooms, and yes, they last quite a while. Finally dug them up because they were such blackspot magnets after they bloomed--really terrible! Not knowing much about roses in those days, I thought I was doing something wrong. It was with relief, after I joined this forum, to find it was just the nature of the beast and not me.

Where mine were located, it was fine to let them sprawl and ramble at will. They look particularly lovely --in bloom--arching in multiple directions.

You will need to plant lots of busy stuff around them to mask their post-bloom leafless canes. And don't plant any other roses near them or you might have a major outbreak of blackspot spreading from Dr. Huey to your other roses.

Kate

I hate Dr. Huey because every one of him that pops up in my garden is a painful reminder of my past rose failures.

I too cut out the Huey, as it means something grafted to it has died.

That doesn't mean that you have to feel the same way, and growing it is your call. You can peg the rose, using wire staples. Maybe adding a clematis that will bloom during the time huey isn't blooming will help make better use of the space huey is taking up.

You can also grow a rose in that place that blooms longer and is on it's own root.

I have a Dr. Huey, sprung up from a grafted Yves Piaget, which died. So Dr. Huey is doing well, climbing against a small trellis. I am going to trim after the bloom this year because I really don't have a lot of room. I loosely tied twine around the canes to keep him on the trellis. Overall, Dr. Huey is behaving well and is quite healthy...no black spot, mildew, or bugs! So I'll keep him.

I recently purchased a new home and there is a neglected DR. HUEY on the property. Can someone please tell me how to prune this? and when should it be pruned. I don't see any buds. I live in British Columbia.

Also, how can I start another plant from DR. HUEY?

Thanks everyone for your help.

ARS offers a number of techniques for growing rose plants (propagating roses) from cuttings.

Here is a link that might be useful: The American Rose Society

We are growing Dr. Huey in a public park garden. Its blooms last about one month. It is a climber; and has a most spectacular bloom cycle in June to early July in NE Iowa. One year I had several fall blooms as well.

We had a 6' obelisk tube type trellis that had rusted apart and collapsed after about 8 years. I used to trim Dr. Huey canes at the top of the 6' trellis to keep it no higher than 6" above the trellis. I don't know how high it would grow if it had its way. Most of the canes grow inside the trellis and so it is self-contained.

The new trellis sticks 7' out of the ground, and is about 30" across. It was custom made for this rose bush.

Over time Dr. Huey tends to spread out at its base if you keep it healthy. When it escapes its tellis you may need to use twine to tie the canes to the trellis. We went w/ a wider trellis to try to keep it within the trellis.

You need to keep a regular spray program or it will blackspot.

I recommend against growing roses with trees nearby. That's a beautiful blue spruce, but roses do not grow well near trees. Shading and tree roots cause problems for roses.

After my Dr. finishes blooming, he does get bad black spot. What I do is prune all the infected brances/shoots so he is naked for a while, but he recovers rather quickly growing new leaves so he's once again "clothed." I find this practice does keep him contained on the same size trellis that Mark started with (6 ft.). The shoots are pretty flexible and can be coaxed into growing in any direction.