According to Helpmefind.com, Sririt of Freedom has occasional repeat later in the season. When I see this about a rose I just take for granted repeat bloom is hard to come by. In my U.S. zone 5 where we have a cold winter, the roses go naturally dormant. Spring, after pruning back winter dieback, begins a new growth cycle. Our first bloom usually is the biggest of the season. In Thailand, I presume your climate is such you have no natural dormant period and the roses grow year round. If that's the case once it blooms, with occasional repeat later in the season and with such a long season you'll wait forever for repeat blooms. You may need to do like they do in Florida and California where there is usually no dormant period and cut them back to force new growth. It blooms on new wood so doing that may fool it into thinking it's come out of dormancy. You'll have to contact someone in those areas to see when they cut back.

I don't know about others but I know the term used in Canada. In my opinion, these peoples on both sides of the border have been treated cruelly and discriminated against for centuries. Are they frustrated and collectively sensitive and unhappy? Of course. On their part, have all of them collectively done everything possible to improve their lots in life, despite the obstacles they confront that those of European ancestry haven't had to deal with? A minority has, just as with any underprivileged underclass, but many haven't. Have Canada and the US as nations having this problem underclass done everything possible to help them do better economically? No, definitely not. The causes don't matter, history doesn't matter, what got us (and you up North) to where things are today don't matter. Like golf, the ball needs to be played where it lies. These are problems today to fix that will cost a lot of money. They need to be dealt with. As far as groups that do or don't do this or that - my experiences suggest that Canada has as much racism and discrimination as anywhere else, much as y'all like to pretend you don't. You're in a free country - free speech there as here is welcome but bigoted speech, phony facts, stereotypical generalizations usually get some push-back. As should be expected. .

Though DA does deserve to be boy-cotted,I tend to agree with Sheila-get the varieties that you really want while they are still available. The fact is, DA is not about the love of roses; I don't think it ever was. I read somewhere that David Austin himself, was not even trying to breed roses when he started; his first one was an accident. Over the years, he made it prretty clear that he was out to make money,I think. Again, I read somewhere that someone questioned his advice about spacing 3 of the same variety very close together and his cynical reply was: "would you rather sell just one plant to a customer, or three all at once?" The clincher for me was one year, in their catalogue, they stated that roses only live for about five years,and after that should be replaced.(I think they did have the decency to remove THAT, or else it was just too many customers protested). Now, I can't prove any of this, since it's stuff I gleaned over the years in my rose questing,but when I see their glossy catalogue and all the rest it just stikes me as snobby and false. It also does seem to me that the new varieties -from the photos at least-look more and more alike , there are always lots of yellow and pinks,beginning just to look a bit like a lot of cupcakes or something; the older varieties seem to have more character. Another thing that baffles me: one thing I did like about DA was the fact that they produced some nice deep,velvety purple-reds (Falstaff, Munstead Wood, The Prince, William Shakespeare, WS2000,etc).They don't seem to even try to do those any more. Now, some of these as plants might have had several defects, but that colour range is so rare and special in re-blooming roses that I feel that I, at least, would be willing to close an eye on the defects. In fact, even though I'm so anti-DA,I DO indeed toy with the idea of trying to get new plants of Falstaff, WS 2000, and maybe even The Prince, all of which I once had but failed to grow properly and had to sp. I still do have Tradescant, also from years ago-now that plant has been ignored completely by me for years, was mistreated in the beginning,as well-and yet last year I discovered it among the weeds-small, yes, but with those beautiful dark blooms,and in decent health, too. I dug it up, potted it (removing a cane that had gone own-root and potting that up seperately ). So for at least 10 years that plant has survived in good health with no real care-that is a good rose! but has been discontinued, of course. I plan to coddle mine along a bit in a pot (it looks great so far) until it's big enough, and then plant it out in my garden-this time in a better spot; it seems to deserve it. To be honest, I suspect that. since this company never was about the love of roses,by now they are gradually in the process of dropping all attempts to breed interesting, lovable, "real" roses, and will more and more aim towards developing -how shall it put it? -a new brand of "pseudo Knock-outs", because all they want is to make money. Now there is nothing per se wrong with Knock-outs and their ilk, but they can NOT take the place of "real" roses. So grab the real ones while they are still available.

One thing my friend learned is that a lot of climbing roses took more time than she wanted to wait to even begin to cover the arches she had made. I don't know how large your arch will be, but it will take more than one rose to cover the arch you've shown above. After looking at it, I would recommend something with more space filled in--you've mentioned this above. I don't really train a rose--I just help it along, and occasionally tie a cane that doesn't want to cooperate (or prune them back). I'm a terrible person to ask about training roses, and I never do a lot of pruning climbers, either. I also have a twisty reel to supply long green twisties for any tying I might do. This is the flat kind available on Amazon. I don't know what rose you want to try on the arch, but New Dawn grows really rapidly if you think you could handle it. It can be a thorny monster. I grew a few, and they were too large for my garden. You might consider combining some big clematis to grow with your rose(es). Colette was a very fast growing rose, but I started with a 5 gallon plant and she didn't need to climb a tunnel and cover it. I hate to keep using my friend's photos but she has so many examples. Below is a huge Zepherine Drouhin growing against my friend's gazebo. I don't know how long this took to achieve (I'll ask her), but ZD is thornless. Also shown is a huge Eden on an arbor. I think Eden was a fairly slow grower (I'll ask her about that, too). I hope you get some good advice from others. Good luck, and thanks about Colette. The poor thing pretty much trained herself. Diane