How do I train a climbing rose to grow on a fence?
marcia638
14 years ago
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How to train climbing roses
Comments (12)New Dawn, and all the other repeat blooming hardy climbers I know, actively snigger at the nice, neat little drawings of training climbers in rose books. For one thing, they are very much 3-D objects, which take up a larger footprint than often expected. So one reason you are having a hard time distinguishing between main canes and laterals is that it is a *human* distinction that has little to do with what the rose is doing. If it isn't giving a good spring flush, I'd suspect something else is going on besides lack of pruning. Repeat bloom is heavily dependent on deadheading, so that is where the pruning issue is going to show up. If the rose is simply taking up too much room, find a handy suit of armor and wade in. My honest feeling is that this isn't really the right rose for the location - that there are warm climate climbers that would do a better job of hiding the tower and be easier to train. However, I don't know those....See MoreI need to train my climbing Graham Thomas roses to a Horizontal Fence
Comments (7)Not clothes pins, ever. Graham Thomas has canes that canker easily and keeping a year or two year old cane in close contact with a fence would be a place that water would accumulate next to where there was damage to the cane from wind moving it against the fence. A gentle use of jute string loosely around the canes/stems and then a second knot holding it to the fence. You are in a zone where winter won't kill the canes back?...See MoreTraining climbing roses
Comments (35)Yall!!! This is such a helpful post, thank you! Well, quite honestly, the posts are all helpful or inspiring in some way... but I digress. Most of my roses are in their “leap” year, so I have a lot of trepidation about cutting any of their precious growth off for fear I will do it wrong. This post was so helpful for me to have good visuals. Thank you! :)...See MoreWhich are your non-climbing roses you trained to climb?
Comments (7)Quicksilver good and I would recommend it, tho it may go over 8’, mine is 6 feet but a young plant still. Not sure if spirit of freedom could be kept at 8 feet, but wow what a lovely rose and it has it all. No spray first year plants in pots here. picture from yesterday Bordeaux cityscape: healthy continuous bloomer that is not a climber but probably could reach 8feet. Mine grew to 5-6 feet on its second year before I cut it down because it was way past where I needed it to be. I bought it as 3 feet tall bush to cover the bottom of my sculpture it and now I have to fight it because I loves to grow very tall. blooms like this all the time, perfect foliage. Blooms don’t burn in full day sun. I do not have a better red....See Morehoovb zone 9 sunset 23
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