Patricia, Glorie de Dijon - Died this winter. 3 years old. Was in too much shade, but I had read that this was a rose that could tolerate some shade. It never was a strong rose, but I wasn't expecting it to die. Beautiful blooms. I want another one of these. Love that fleshy color. Rev d Or - Lived for 2 years. Grew by leaps and bounds, then one spring it leafed out and then died before blooming. I look at my roses often and the death was very sudden. One day it looked bad, within a couple of days after that it was dead. I think this happened last spring. Bouquet d Or - Bought from ARE, so it was a 2 or 3 gallon rose. I think it was bought and planted in the early fall. It didn't grow much and was dead within a year (maybe a half a year). This was 2 or 3 years ago. I also lost Sombruil the climber. It lived for 3 years then started dying back this past winter. I kind of thought it would come back from the ground this year, but no such luck. I hope this helps. I've lost some HTs to the creeping die back crud, but some of these OGRs were kind of sudden. I've got other noisettes in the same area: Jaune Desprez, MAC, and others whose names I can't remember, but they are all very much alive. .... so far.

Aloha and her sport Dixieland Linda(apricot) were on the list of cold hardy roses at Rogue Valley Roses. Got me thinking. Bad habit, I know. I now own a bunch of climbing roses with no scent. American Pillar, Dr. Van Fleet, Paul's Scarlett, Bleu Magenta and Ash Wednesday. I suspect Ash Wednesday will start to smell like apples after it gets out of its pot. Greenmantle did. It's disturbing. They look so great in the pictures. However, they're all pretty interesting roses. The first three have gotten little care, but now I intend to coddle them. Then I'm thinking of some trompe d'loile by growing them together with something scented. Ash Wednesday is really odd. The flowers are grey, but then some bloom peachy brown. I guess the word I would use is sophisticated. I can't think what would enliven the bordello tones of American Pillar , and Paul's Scarlett is just plain scarlett. Bleu Magenta's going up with the lovely smelling Ghislaine de Feligonde, which may or may bloom at the same time. And I forgot about Madame Plantier, which I bought. Nice scent. I'm thinking of a baby Mottisfont, but this crowd I have rounded up is a bit like the Queen having a beer at the Lounge Bar and Cafe with Horse Morgan. So do any of the Doctor's children rebloom on new wood with a nice scent? There's several, though I can only think of Awakening.

Patrick, there are several clematis that are fragrant or at least that can be. Clematis by and large typically don't have strong overpowering fragrances except for maybe clematis terniflora or sweet autumn clematis and some of the montanas. Betty Corning is also one that has a definite fragrance but it is more subtle than terniflora. I brought a few blossoms of Betty Corning in this spring and could definitely smell the fragrance within the room in which the bouquet was placed. Hakuree is another one with a fragrance but it is even more subtle but very jasminey up close. Aromatica is another one that is purportedly fragrant and is described as smelling like hawthorne. Mine wasn't noticeably fragrant last year but perhaps it is like my terniflora which wasn't fragrant at all until after it had been in the ground for four years. As Roserobin pointed out, some of the montanas are fragrant. Fragrant Spring, Elizabeth, Mayleen, Rubens, Grandiflora, and Pink Perfection are a few of the montanas that are noted to be fragrant. In my garden, a heracleifolia called Blue Mood is fragrant upclose and reminds me of hyacinth blossoms. Another one that is fragrant but again only up close is Olgae. Mine is slightly sweet scented. I am sure there are others that will be mentioned by those that have them. One thing to note is that not all clematis are fragrant to everyone. I am unsure if it is due to each person's own individuality when it comes to perceiving odors or if there are some cultivars that depending on whom you purchase them from are either fragrant or not. I have previously mentioned my Hakuree and Olgae as being fragrant while others who have them have said they cannot detect any fragrance. Another point that needs to be made is that the fragrances tend to be more pronounced in the early morning and late evening and when the air is still and the humidity high. Not sure if this serves some biological purpose or not but often plants are fragrant at certain times of the day to attract specific pollinators that are active at those specific times of the day.

I'll second what Viburnumvalley wrote about starting your own thicket of Aralia spinosa - all you have to do is pull up a small stem or two from an existing thicket, taking at least a few roots along with it, or even just the tissue along the stem where roots emerged before you pulled it. If you get only a few roots - and you probably will if you just yank one out of the ground - remove most of the leaves from the stem, leaving only a few small or partial leaves, or perhaps no leaves, then plant it where you want it, water, and keep the soil moist for a month or two. Eventually the stem will grow new roots and new leaves, and you've got a plant. I've done this a few times, sometimes failing to keep the soil consistently moist, and have had perhaps 75% success. If I was planting this again, I'd pull a bunch of stems and plant more than I think I want. This is a rather gaunt plant that looks better with multiple stems, so plant 4 where you want one, and if your success is the same as mine you have a very good chance that at least one will take root, and probably you'll end up with two or three which will make an attractive stand of Aralia. now is a good time of year to transplant aralia spinosa because there should be small (perhaps 1 or 2 foot), new shoots emerging from the ground that lend themselves to transplanting. I think older shoots would work too, but they're larger and harder to handle. If you see this plant along a roadside, powerline, or edge you may be able to find new shoots emerging from the ground in a place where they will eventually be cut, mowed, or sprayed. These are good candidates for transplanting without having any impact at all on the parent clump of plants. Of course I wouldn't worry too much about pulling up a few shoots from any healthy clump - a healthy plant produces enough new growth that it can easily afford to lose a few shoots. Wear thick gloves.