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The best climbing roses

Marigold33 NY-Z7

8 years ago

Can someone please tell me what they think is the best performing climbing rose. Small to medium sized climbers. I'm in Zone 6, New York. Thank you!

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seil zone 6b MI

8 years ago

The thing with climbers is that the wider, more horizontal, you can train it the more bloom you'll get. Training it straight up doesn't allow for a lot of lateral growth so you'll only get blooms at the tips of the canes. Training it sideways makes the plant produce lateral growth so you'll get blooms all along the canes.

You might take a look at some of the David Austin roses. They can get quite tall but will not be as large as most climbers. They should also give you more blooms. Most of them are killer fragrant too!

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seil zone 6b MI
8 years ago
In zone 6 you'll need something that is not just hardy but also CANE hardy to have any kind of real climbing. Look at ones like Quadra, John Cabot or John Davis. If a climber isn't cane hardy you'll probably have to cut off most of it every spring so it will never really climb.
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Marigold33 NY-Z7
Original Author
8 years ago
Thank you Seil I see what you mean about being cane hardy! My grandmother had in the 60's a climber that went up to the second floor of the 2 family house, also in NY not far from me now. But I know that's far few and in between but it was a beautiful red climber. Here I don't have that sort of room. I was considering John Cabot because that's the color I'm looking for and Heirloom has it, but it seems it can get very wide. I guess I would need something more compact. If that doesn't work for my area I'm considering a shrub rose rather than a climber. Thanks for sharing, Seil I have learned something new!
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Marigold33 NY-Z7
Original Author
8 years ago
Thanks so much, I will check those Austins! So great to know!
cjrosaphile
8 years ago
My favorite climbing Austin is Crown Princess Margareta. Beautiful and smells wonderful.
nanadollZ7 SWIdaho
8 years ago
Take a look at Colette. She is very cold hardy for me and for Nippstress who is zone 5 in Nebraska. This is a fast growing bloom machine with an old fashioned look. I don't have this year's photos ready yet, but here is a photo from last year, when Colette was only a year old. I may be in zone 7 now, but we were zone 6 until about 4 years ago when the Ag department changed the zones. We had a nasty Nov Arctic blast before my roses were dormant in 2014 and Colette didn't suffer a thing. Diane
Colette
Colette up close
Diane
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summersrhythm_z6a
8 years ago
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marigold33, Hope you can find an Above and Beyond, that's a pretty cane hardy climber. It's very hard to find, a lot of us here are hunting for that rose. :-)

Diane, Is Colette cane hardy? Does it repeat well? I have some cold hardy ones, but they die to the ground each winter. I'd love to have some cane hardy fast growing climbers/ramblers.
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Marigold33 NY-Z7
Original Author
8 years ago
Thanks for the suggestions and for sharing the beautiful picture! Actually I'm looking at Austins now and I have my eye on Colette and also Graham Thomas but he looks like he can get big. But now that I see your picture of Colette, wow and also she seems to be a tough cookie based on your description! I will look into Above and Beyond as well :)
summersrhythm_z6a
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
I love DA roses too. This year I ordered their 2 ramblers: Malvern Hills and The Albrighton Rambler, I hope they're cane hardy and can climb.

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