I can't offer an opinion on cl. CS vs. cl. CB (having not grown either yet) but this this brings up a question of interest to me . I have just rooted some cuttings from a climbing rose in the backyard of my daughter's apartment building in San Francisco. The rose sure looks and smells like Cecille Brunner and is about 12' tall, but very rangy and a bit depauperate (lots of shade and it's growing in the middle of a giant bamboo stand -- good grief, how bad can it get for a poor rose?). The rose blooms off-and-on all year long -- in fact, was blooming during this past January and February. On the other hand, there is a church here in Livermore that has Cl. CB growing on it and I've never seen those rebloom after the spring flush. So, I've been wondering if there possibly are clones of Cl. CB that are remontant. Or, alternatively, are there climbing roses that very closely resemble CB that are remontant? ~ Debbie This post was edited by catspa on Wed, Mar 13, 13 at 14:29

What they said. Either is potentially the answer to your question. A third is perhaps the plant is reaching for light? If it's shaded sufficiently, the plant can be triggered to throw longer canes to push itself up into the sun. If that isn't the case, then the first two suggestions are possibilities. Or, perhaps you have a particularly happy plant of DD? If it's being fed and watered well, it could be performing as it originally was supposed to, instead of the junk we've usually been fed of it. It CAN be a vigorous, incredibly beautiful plant, though I've seldom seen it perform that way. Kim

Please use the new posted list, thanks.

Please use new list. Thanks