It would be very helpful to know what zone you garden in because the quality or intensity of light can have a bearing on how much sunlight a rose needs to thrive. Climbing Peace is a rose that requires lots of patience. It takes quite a long while (several years) to settle in and to produce the growth that, in turn, promotes bloom production. Because it's so slow to mature, I feel that it's especially important to do whatever is necessary to keep Climbing Peace in good health. A rose that's healthy and well-foliated throughout each growing season will naturally mature more rapidly. As long as they're well watered and fed, Peace and Climbing Peace do well in dry climates like yours. One doesn't often see a well-grown Climbing Peace, but with patience and determination a Climbing Peace in full flush can defy description.

Generally climbing sports of hybrid teas do not repeat as well as the better non-HT climbers, which in turn don't repeat as well as bush HTs. Also the long flowering stems that HTs tend to produce can look a little awkward on a climber. I have some experience with Cl. Peace, and it did not repeat much, though the spring flush was grand. Mendocino, who posts on the Antique RF, just mentioned that she has Cl. Tiffany, so maybe she will show up. The bush form of Blue Girl is a poor repeater, so I would not expect much from the climber. But that's just conjecture.

Mine was a bareroot from a big box store, I forget which one. Its companion, supposed to be Cl. Queen Elizabeth, ended up as the rootstock, Dr. Huey, oh, phooey, but I kept it and it's lovely in the spring, all that red. Climbing Peace has thrived. I put a steel post opposite the arbor post and trained nearly half the canes over to the new post, late in the winter. I googled for the Rose Emporium -- they sold out of Cl. Peace. Nell

I have a mature plant of climbing Peace that needs a new home quickly.I have had to remove/move a lot of roses over the past few weeks because of a pending boundary fence. If anyone wants it they can pick it up. I live in Boronia....eastern burbs of melbourne. email me if interested. thanx sandie