"Cabbage" is a descriptive term, but generally it refers to Centifolias and others, and these are spring blooming only. Some of David Austin's shrub roses come close in appearance to what you're visualizing -- but they repeat their bloom. A few growers specialize in growing such roses, specifically for the Florist trade. I would check with florists in your area, and ask if any of them offer David Austin Shrub Roses, or similar. Jeri

I did last year with great success. Just make sure you harvest them when ready so they don't rot as that would attract insects. They looked beautiful together. I don't know about the others. I have never grown Kale, but I bet it would be fine, especially the flowering kind. I grow Dill, Chamomile, Garlic, Leeks, and Parsley in with my roses all the time. They all seem to benefit from one another. Looks pretty too. When the garlic and leeks bloom, they have large blooms like the non-edible giant Alliums, in colors of white and purple. Very pretty. I have catmint in there too. ~Annie

I gave my mystery rose a few gentle rubs on the buds and new growth this afternoon. I definitely detected a light resin scent. Not as strong as on say Henri Martin, which I used to compare, but definitely present. The buds are still small, but hopefully if it stays warm and sunny, I will have color soon!

So you def love Awakening! Do you have experience with New Dawn? I don't know if I'd pick Awakening again because I think there are better roses out there, and she is so very thorny. OTOH - she's healthy, doesn't black spot, and doesn't require much intervention on my part. I think I might just get a welding apron and some leather gloves though just to make pruning her easier. I don't think I'd have it on a porch if I had children, so now the pain she inflicts is more of an amusing novelty for visitors. On still another hand, she has a good fragrance (Apples) to me and since that and blackspot resistance are my two biggies she's been a good rose. As to rebloom I haven't found this rose to ever really stop and it has a good flush in the spring. I do not really keep up on deadheading, really I just rip old roses off as I walk by. If I had to pick again, I might go with a rambler in that spot and weave in a different climbing plant for later flower. An additional consideration for me was winter hardiness. I live outside of Phila in the last bit of zone 7a, and, in my opinion, we still get the occasional zone 6b winter. May of my other plants are protected by a long hedge which I've found further insulates my plants and helps maintain the temperature in the rear garden but the climbing roses climb above that protection. I'm not a woman who will go out and bury my rose canes in the ground (I have a fig tree that's on its own in the winter some years we get fruit, some years it regenerates from the base). So in additional to all I've written above I also wanted to consider a tough plant that would shrug off ice storms and the occasional freeze to 0º.