I'm partial to Dublin Bay--as my user name suggests. Those clear red blooms (no hint of purple like many red roses sport)are so bright and eye-catching. It is reasonably disease-resistant and reblooms OK, although not prolifically.

If you grow yours on a pillar like I do, make sure you wrap the canes around it while they are young. The older canes get quite rigid and unbending.

I don't have a really good pic of DB, but this one might suggest the eye-catching red of this climber.

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Kate

Katie is the one that turned me onto this gorgeous rose!!.."DB" is such a delicious shade of red and what a repeater..you can't keep this one down..Planted her as a "Band" last fall and already she is out performing all the other climbers that I planted as bands!!..Talk about vigorous!!..This one is most definitely a Must have in anyone's garden that wants a to-die-for red....Jeanne

I live in Seattle and I planted DB and Don Juan climbing..Well Don Juan was a superior rose in every way. Doesn't mean that will be true in your area

Apparently DB likes it hot, because mine has been very slow to grow and few blooms, much slower than Crepuscule and Champney's Pink Cluster, but about the same or better than Awakening. It's finally sending up a taller cane this year. The flowers are such a vibrant red I'm willing to wait, and they last a long time on the bush, too. OTOH, Marechal Niel declined and didn't make it through the last winter.

Here DB needs to be sprayed to keep it from BS.
Olga

the plant i just bought is a beauty. 9 main canes spreading into a perfect fan and loaded with blooms. i bought it at select roses. in brad jalberts book of B.C. roses, he lists the DB as a rambler. is this a mistake?

I was just admiring the blooms on DB this morning. They are the clearest brightest red. I have it growing on the other side of a trellis with cl. Iceberg and they are stunning together. It is thorny, tough, hard to train, disease resistant here, almost scentless, but oh those blooms!
Kathy