Lavender Lassie is the only rose on your list I've grown, which I grew fanned out as a climber. It is vigorous and you'll have to prune it throughout summer to keep it neat looking. Though it depends on the look that you want if you want it tightly wound or just loosely falling out of the structure. I have grown roses tightly on obelisks like this Mme Ernest Calvat. It helps if you wrap new canes when they are young and still pliable around the outside like a candy cane, and then bend and tie a few long laterals down the same direction. Finally, prune anything that's left down to 3-4 bud-eyes to keep it neat.

Very nice.

Hi Kevarose some of the suggestions are great - I especially liked Garry's idea of Buff Beauty or Phyllis Bide. I am looking out my window at the ferral rose garden and had another idea. What about climbing Softie? She is normally shown as small - to about 1.5m, but mine has grown to the top of a pine pole (about 3m)and I once saw one that was about three times the size!! She is constantly in flower with sweet lemon blooms which are fully double and fade to white. Not that I can actually see her - Lamarque has smothered her! I'll atempt a rescue mission on the weekend. Softee is a climbing minature and so could be planted on the side of the structure so she could almost 'sit' on the roof. Softee s thornless!! and does not have 'canes'. Her growth habit is like an everyflowering rambler - which is what that think you are asking for. Another climbing miniature I have read about is Golden Garden. Though she has canes 'Penelope' the hybrid musk is a perfect colour and has the advantage of lovely hips in autumn/winter - her growth is similar to Buff Beauty. Cheers Deryn

What a wonderul garden you have Tricia so lush and GREEN, and it would be a wonderful haven to just sit and ponder. It would be magnificent when all your roses are blooming and those Clematis winding up the posts look terrific. So many beautiful plants everything very neat and tidy. Great Pics Tricia. A garden to be proud of well done to you both...Cheers..MM. Dear Jan, I often wonder and think of how you are going after your sad loss also. And I am sure Dorothy is still there in your garden looking down and thinking what a wonderful job you are still doing, so keep posting your pics, we all look forward to them..Cheers..MM.