Climbing Double Delight

14 years ago

HelpMeFind indicates a climbing sport of Double Delight was commercially introduced in the early 1980's. Has anyone grown it? If so, what was your experience with it?

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jerijen
14 years ago
It is my understanding that it suffered from the common ill of Cl. Sports of bush-form HTs:
It groweth mightily, and bloometh little.

Jeri
karl_bapst_rosenut
14 years ago
Jeri, I like the way you put it and that was my experience exactly. I got just a couple of blooms in spring followed by lots of growth and no more blooms until the following year. As it matured it did not improve.
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jaxondel
14 years ago
To make Climbing DD worth growing, try training it along a horizontal, rather than a vertical support. By doing so, you're likely to see a significant increase in bloom production during the spring flush, and a reasonable (but not dramatic) improvement in repeat flowering during the rest of the season. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is a climber that definitely improves with age. It grows energetically for the first few years before finally settling in and getting down to business -- and that process definitely takes longer if the plant is allowed to grow vertically.

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