This is beautiful! I don't know what I have of equivalent value to trade, but it is beautiful! Would you take a cutting of the weigela florida variegata? It's blooming now with pale pink flowers & really fragrant. I also have a silk tree seedling that I could ship later once it's hardened off a bit. It's still a little tender for shipping. Or a 2 year old Catalpa sapling. Please take a look through my trade list or let me know if you would consider postage.

We have a SAC on a chain link fence in proximity to two once-a-year blooming roses, Russelliana (Russell's Cottage Rose) and what's known around here as Seven Sisters (but I think is really Excelsia). Each plant is about eight feet apart and in partial shade -- really only 4-5 hr/day of sun. Right now the SAC is in full bloom and the location looked great in June, too, when the rambling roses bloomed. All three plants are happily duking it out. There was a Constance Spry involved in the fray on the fence, but one of the others choked it out this year. It's a part of our garden that's pretty neglected and these three are just perfect for that location. We'd probably lose small children to these plants if they got more sunlight and proper care.

I think you would ok with the climber Fourth of July here in the Halifax area. It is supposed to be hardy in zone 6 and if it does take a beating through a hard winter...it would spring back. The worst thing that would happen is you would have a beautiful shrub rose instead of a climber. I saw some at home depot and they looked really nice. It's a plus for us that the potted roses in HD are grown here in Nova Scotia and the other potted roses are grown n Ontario. I think I will go and get one for me today :)

I live in a climate similar to coastal California. I have Climbing roses Cecille Brunner -light pink flowers in clusters, little but perfectly formed high centered tea shape - the Buttonhole rose - hugely vigorous - 1.5 storeys and 20' wide in 2 years,(I am training it against the northern side ( in the southern hemisphere) of my house) medium, sweet fragrance, V. FEW THORNS, and I have rooted a few pieces which are now flowering - this has flowered for me all summer still producing 2 or 3 clusters (say 8-10 in a cluster) at a time and its into autumn); Growing beside and intertwining CB is Zephirine Drouhin COMPLETELY THORNLESS deep cerise pink semi double flowers intensely fragrant - the deep pink flowers are stunning in with the light pink Cecile Brunner, but not nearly so many of them. I have read Zeffie has a problem with black spot but I never have and don't spray - its in a good wind area and full sun; I have grown Zephirine's sister Kathleen Harrop and it was not quite so vigorous, paler pink flowers, still thornless and intensely scented. Pierre de Ronsard (Eden), hardly any thorns, medium fragrance, gorgeous shell pink and white cabbage flower, doing well only been in for a year already waist high and I am training it horizontally to get more flowers, but low. Zeffie, Cecille Brunner and Pierre de Ronsard (Eden) are near a path and had to be thornless, or nearly so. Renae - NO THORNS, pretty vigorous and hardy, (but not as vigorous as like Cecille - no rose I have grown is a vigorous as she, except maybe banksia rose) Renae (sister of Pinkie) has lilac, little, muddled flowers in clusters, strong, sweet fragance. This is a very pretty and nicely behaved rose - the canes are pliable and can be trained easily; Icebergs which haven't prospered perhaps because they haven't had full sun I've killed about 3 of them now - succumbed to everything and go into a white scale sulk and fade away; Reine de Violettes - deep purple double old world flowers, medium scent, NO THORNS, in morning sun, doing well, flowers shatter with rain, good scent I love this rose has completely matte, soft leaves it's near a seat; Crepescule - soft coppery apricot semi double muddled blooms, slight scent, HARDLY ANY THORNS, shortish climber doing very well in full sun - I am training this against a 5' wall facing east - the new foliage is an arresting deep bronze; Mdm Gregoire Stachaelin (Spanish Beauty) pretty, pink can be streaky, semi double, informal, open flowers in clusters, sweet fragrance, medium vigorous but too thorny for me but I have struck about 10 pieces it's easy to root - they are growing on fences, over arbours, in trees it's autumn and they are still pumping out clusters of flowers, everywhere I look there is another pink tress of the Madam showing through somewhere; I have just ordered Lady Hillingdon Climber (thorniness rating 5/10 which is too high for me, but no Mdm Alfred Carriere available) - yellow, intensely scented; Also just ordered Nahema THORNLESS, shell pink, intense scent, can't wait till spring; Also just ordered Golden Celebration from David Austin - huge, gold, cabbage style flowers, intense scent, V. FEW THORNS. Then there are the ones in my garden I don't know what they are but I love them still. ....Can you tell I don't like thorns? I grow them for delight not for blood, pain and scars.