I have been told that it is difficult to find a Cl Crimson Glory that actually does climb. I do have one that I rooted from one in the garden of an old cottage that was about to be torn down, and it has gone about 15 feet. I agree with you - it is a marvelous rose, and one of my most fragrant. I would just dig a big hole, somewhere where it will get lots of sun, and where there is something to climb on. Then make sure that the sides of the hole are roughed up, so that it does not become a "bathtub", fill it with good soil, and plant the rose. Water it a lot until it starts to put out new growth. If it starts to die back, you may have to prune it severely, so that its roots can catch up to the top growth. I am not an expert at rooting roses - I am sure someone on here can guide you to exact directions, but it can be done. Good Luck! Jackie

Thanks for all of your nice comments. I just wanted to comment on Ingrid's, re disliking red roses, but liking this one because it tends towards the purple side - that is exactly how I feel! I only took a cutting of the original of this because I also like climbers very much (solves my deer problem). I know that rose hybridizers spent decades trying to develop red roses that did NOT fade towards purple, but I don't like those kind nearly as well - boring. This one goes great with the purple clematis (which was a total accident - I had planted the clematis years before, and forgot about it, because it didn't bloom, until it suddenly burst into bloom on the arch one Spring) because of its color. It wasn't until it rooted that I realized what a marvelous fragrance it has - really strong "old rose". To answer Nancylee's question, I never cut that clematis back (I am lazy, and therefore cannot be bothered to remember which clematis is a I, or a II, or a III, or what the different pruning instructions are for those different types - I just let them grow without pruning) at all until last Fall, when we had to seriously prune the Sombreuil, as it was lopsided, and was threatening to bring down the entire large arch, and/or snag/injure passersby. So, I pruned the clematis down to about 2 feet, not realizing that clematis, like roses, have growth nodules along the stems...Anyway, it showed no signs of life early this Spring, so I decided I had killed it. To my joy it eventually re-emerged from its roots, and by now has achieved about 5 feet in height, and climbing still - I have managed to direct it so that it will climb up the arch again to join the Sombreuil and the CG. Here is a pic of a bloom of my CG which was taken before we knew who it was. Jackie

Well, I don't know. I looked at both those roses on Help Me Find and I guess it could be. Maybe there was something about the way this GW member grew this rose or pruned it that gave it a little different look to it. And the color of the rose on the arbor seems a little coral to me, but that could just be the camera or the light. Thanks for the help. :-)

Never heard of it, so I looked it up on HMF - what a gorgeous rose! Hope someone who grows it can advise. Jackie