wonderful selection ...I'm another from the west ...a very senior rose addict ...have gradually reduced my garden from large to medium and now in a villa ..very tiny ..but still have managed to fit in some of my favourites..
Have just planted sparrieshoop and zephrine Druhin side by side on our back fence outside the computer room window. Both already in bloom.
Jen

Excellent work Jen!
I forgot to mention one more climber: Constance Spry. She is also a wonderful addition to my backyard. She's now shooting dozens od new stems and I hope she'll grow tall.
My place is not too big, smallish actually, but I'll try to squeeze in as many roses as I can. My next step is to conquer the frontyard; there's too much lawn there for my taste. :-) In other words, rose addicts will find any excuse for another "rose crusade" :-)
- Tom

Will have to look them up Tom on the web,love the climbers,have a Teasing Georgia growing.Thanks for the info on the cameras,the Lz1 panasonic has everthing I need,cheers greencroc.

Hi Tom-I love climbers also and have a few of the ones you mention-and a lot you don't.
Looking forward to seeing pics of them all.
LOL! about your front lawn-i agree-why grow lawn when you can plant roses?You are HOOKED tom!What a way to go.
regards
sandie

Yeap, I'm nuts about climbers, Sandie. And I have enough room for at least 8 of them more. But I can't do it all at once :-)
When I came to Australia, I was astonished; such beautiful houses, but such terrible backyards and frontyards! People in UK would kill for such a space. And all those fences ... nothing on them! What a waste! And you have such a great climate to grow roses ... it's unbelievable.
So, I'm changing all that :-)
- Tom

Hi Tom looked up these roses on the web you have good tastes,great colours love Alfred Carriere and Othello in particular,Amber glow is a beauty Zephirine Drouhin great roses,all I need now is space to put them,cheers greencroc.

Uh, just got Kathleen Harrop today too. Great little bush, almost 3 ft tall, looks pretty and very promising. Already has few flowers and I'm very, very excited 'bout her. Tomorrow there will be another English rose in my garden, some tall variety (probably Crown Princess Margareta or Leander, but I'll confirm this later) and a day after there'll be Genevieve (by Meilland) and .. something else ... :-)
- Tom

So, it was Pegasus and Graham Thomas today, great specimens, two years old.
Oh Gosh, who knows what comes tomorrow! :-) I'm crazy, crazy, crazy!
- Tom

But what a wonderful way to go crazy Tom.
Your Enthusiasm is Fantastic, Keep it up.
You make one want to go out and buy more and more roses.
But this heat here is not too kind to them....Cheers..MM.

PS I adore Graham Thomas its so pretty.

I found some pics of Pegasus on Mary SA photo site
Another lovely DA rose Tom I can see it getting on my wish list also.
MM.

MM,
Pegasus grows really tall in Oz! 8ft like nothing. It's great for background, and has stronger scent than Crown Princess Margareta. But Margareta has larger and more cupped blooms. They're all so pretty!
I also want William Morris -- it has absolutely fabulous scent, and grows tall too. Maybe tomorrow, I'll let you know.
As for my plan to conquer my lawn frontyard, I might say it excites me. I've decided to plant roses in groups of three, each group in its own little "island". There will be 15 little islands (1.2 m wide) and I'm planning 15 varieties of English roses to go in there. All colours, all scents, I want it to look like a fairytale. It wil take some time (I do all the work, of course) but such work feeds my soul.
- Tom

All right, so my postings will probably stop here today. It was a great, sunny but coldish day here in Perth and I've arrived home with four more beautiful climbers:
* Genevieve, which belongs in Meilland's Romantica rose class. Beautiful climber, beautiful flower shape, fragrance and foilage; I only wish David Austin had something similar coming up too.
* Handel; you know everything about him already. I liked his look, refreshing scent (Iceberg-like, honey with almonds) and I know it's a very vigorous beast.
* Climbing Charleston; great looking climber, beautiful dark green foilage with beautifully shaped, large single flowers in yellow and dark red combinations, that change their colour as they mature; subtle and nice honey and apple-like scent, foud in many similar climbers and ramblers.
* Leander; I wanted huge English rose and this one fits the shoe perfectly. You know all about it and although I was thinking whether to go for Leander or Cymbeline, I decided to give Cymbeline another spot, which has still to be prepared well.

Hope these choices will inspire some of you to give some room for more climbing roses. Climbers are special; they don't take space, but rather make it more beustiful, they add something natural and spiritual to our homes which suddenly become a place worth living in, thinking about and admiring.

- Tom

Tom, please don't stop.
I would love to see a picture or two of what you have your climbers growing on and how you handle them when they are growing gangbusters.

Marion, who is getting , maybe, a bit too enthusiastic about roses.

I wonder if anyone has Teasing Georgia or Molineux and how well would they grow in Dandenong Mountains in Melbourne's south-east? I was steering away from DAVID AUSTIN English roses and was considering Celine Forestier, Casino and Leverkusen as climbers for my post & wire fencelines. Anyone know whether these are tougher than the DA's. I am also hoping to get roses that I can cut and bring indoors for vases all summer long. Any advice, anyone? From, Janine.