Would like to see your favorite/best climbers
I definitely wouldn't consider myself an expert on climbers, but I do love them. I have four, and I like them all, but would love to see some of your beautiful and best climbers for inspiration.
These are all from early 2015 season.
ZEPHIRINE DROUHIN
ALOHA
DUBLIN BAY
AMERICA
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Sara-Ann Z6B OK
8 years agoRelated Discussions
Would like any thoughts on climbers, arbors and/or zone 4
Comments (4)It is only a slight exaggeration to say that supporting William Baffin is like supporting a lilac bush. The first year you would need some support such as a fence post to keep the canes upright. After that you would only need to tie new cane growth to keep it from whipping around in the wind. It needs plenty of room to spread. I originally had WB planted a good 3 feet plus from the house and that was not enough room and it had to be moved. It is rumored that WB will repeat. All I ever get is a tease of a few blooms on a late growing new cane once in an odd year or so. I have an arbor with John Cabot on one side and John Davis on the other. They are a pretty good match for that purpose. JD is, overall the better rose if you have only one. You probably ought to have both. JD has a slightly better repeat, but a slightly less spring flush. JD's blooms are fuller and a clear pink with a pleasant, but light perfume to my nose. JC is more vigorous and will reach the top of the arbor a year or two sooner. JC has a denser spring flush, but a more sporadic repeat. JC's perfume is faint, but very interesting, it smells like a cold cream my mother used. JC's bloom is a fuchsia pink and smaller than JD. Both JD and JC have fairly healthy foliage. JC will sometimes get a minor case of Fall spots and JD will get a little PM in bad years for PM. I have not grown Joseph's Robe. Climbing America canes will die if not covered. I used to make a small circle of snow fencing around CA and fill it with leaves after freeze up. Most winters this would save 2.5 to 3 foot of cane. I now just pour a bag of wood chip mulch on the base of the plant for winter protection. It dies to the ground or lower, but the end result by fall is not much different than when I used the fence. I get a four, maybe five foot pillar. To save any appreciable amount of CA cane you would have to Minnesota Tip the entire plant. It is not worth that much trouble. Regards, Charles...See MoreYour favorite minature climbers?
Comments (1)The highest rated miniature climber out there is Jeanne Lajoie. It blooms heavily in the spring and then has sporadic blooms thereafter. This plant will get very large in most areas, often reaching 10 ft. or more, but I'm not sure how it would do in your colder zone. Others you might consider include Climbing Rainbow's End and Hi Ho. Hi Ho, in particular, will stay at a more managable size for growing in a container. The blooms are a nice, deep orange-pink with plenty of petals....See MoreLets See photos of your favorite climbers!!!
Comments (15)Oh! Very Pretty! Jess and that Blaze is Just Amazing! I'll take it have (GC) and I'll take one each of Lady of the Mist and the Impressionist, Fourth of July,Polka ,Rhonda,Soaring Spirits I'd like to see more of PARURE D'OR and just planted 2 berries and cream just love them and I love shadow dancer have it.Also like that mini climber gloriana 97 , I like this post!!!!! more pics people please! close ups of candyland climber and oranges and whites anyone have paradise cl.pics oh yea! I just moved i finally have room for roses who hoo.. had my 100 roses in a very small area....See MoreLet's see a favorite room you would like to have...
Comments (28)Oh, yes, I can imagine myself chilling out in that room any day, any time. I LOVE everything about that house. I could move right in and would not have to change anything, and I cannot say that very often (if ever). I linked the architects website below with more pictures of this house. If I won the lottery, the first phone call to a non-family member would be to this architect, LOL! Here is a link that might be useful: Red Beach House...See More
jacqueline9CA
8 years agoOver half of my roses are climbers, so it is hard to choose. I like really big ones. Here are banksia lutea, Cl Cecile Brunner, and Cl Caroline Testout, all growing on the South side of our house.
Jackie
jacqueline9CA
8 years ago
dublinbay z6 (KS)
8 years agoSarah--your Dublin Bay is doing so well! I've had mine for a number of years now, and it has never really thrived. Then last winter, it was so cold and poor Dublin Bay about froze to death. Just a few short canes survived but they did bloom (one is blooming right now), so I'm hoping that next spring they take off and begin to look a bit more like yours.
Oldrosarian--love all your climbers, and the pics are so well done. Just lovely!
Wow, Jackqueline--those house-eaters climbing up your house are most impressive! Do you have a pic that shows all three growing on that side of the house? I'd love to see that.
I have several climbers, but in addition to Dublin Bay which almost didn't make it through last winter, I have 3 others that are relatively new and haven't done much yet. One is just a slow developing Austin (The Pilgrim), another (The Wedgwood) was a replacement for the previous climber that got RRD, and the 3rd one, Eden, is a replacement for the previous Eden that suffered too much winter damage a couple years ago and had to be spaded. The newer one hasn't done much to brag about yet, but here is a picture of the older Eden back when it was thriving.
I do miss that Eden and hope the new one will really take off next spring.Couple blooms of The Pilgrim--about all it ever blooms at one time, unfortunately. It does have pretty blooms, however.
I don't have a very good picture of The Wedgwood, but you can see part of it blooming (light pink) in the upper left quadrant of this picture. It looks like it will be much more floriferous than The Pilgrim in future seasons.
I hope all 4 look better next year. They just are not standing out the way I anticipated when I planted them. And they certainly have far to go to match the other climbers featured on this thread. : (
Kate
mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
8 years ago
Close up of Baltimore Belle.
Close up of Quadra
My favorite Quadra picture.
Lesley McClave
8 years agojacqueline9CA
8 years agodublinbay - my two biggest house eaters, banksia lutea and Cl Cecile Brunner, usually bloom in sequence, not at the same time. The banksia is usually finished by the time the Cecile Brunner blooms. Anyway, one year they both bloomed at the same time - here is a picture of the middle of them (both go one story further down and one story further up than what you see in this pic). I like the fact that they are both pale colors - look good together.
Jackie
Sara-Ann Z6B OK
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
rosecanadian
8 years agoUser
8 years ago
openmoon 6b IL
8 years agoWonderful thread, enjoying pictures!
Here are some mine
Cl Blaze. Very easy to grow climber. One of the my first roses.
Unknown 4 -years old climber. May be it is Cl. Queen Elizabeth. Very good bloomer, I like it, but such a JB magnet, I am thinking get rid of it.
Cl. Pinkie
Cl. Made of Honor. Second year rose from body bag from grocery store. I love it! Constantly in bloom despite on hit, very long lasting, long vase life.
Sara-Ann Z6B OK
8 years ago
bethnorcal9
8 years agoOpenmoon, sorry to tell you this, but we determined several yrs ago that the rose Certified Roses is selling as "CLIMBING MAID OF HONOUR" is actually the non-climber FOLKLORE. I don't know why they continue to sell it as such. The rose is not the color of MOH and it never gets more than about 5ft tall. FOLKLORE is the mother to MOH.
Here are some of my climbers:BERRIES 'N' CREAM
BLAZE OF GLORY
BUTTERSCOTCH
CANDY LAND
COMPASSION
DR W. VAN FLEET
FOURTH OF JULY
HANDEL
HIGH HOPES
POLKA
bethnorcal9
8 years agoand some more...
RHONDA - unfortunately she died a few yrs ago, but was very lovely.
PURPLE SPLASH
ROYAL AMERICA
SHADOW DANCER
SOARING SPIRITS
YELLOW BLAZE
STORMY WEATHER - looks kind funny here. Just got re-planted. Love the colors.
Sara-Ann Z6B OK
8 years agoopenmoon 6b IL
8 years ago
Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
8 years agofragrancenutter
8 years agoteka2rjleffel
8 years ago
suncoastflowers
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoSara-Ann your America gives me hope. Here is my (mostly defoiliated at the store and on clearance) cl. America. It doesn't even need
anything to climb yet. I am going to build it a trellis before next spring.
I also have and love the rose Golden Showers. Apparently I am fairly alone in my admiration of this climber, but it does well for me. I don't have a picture right now and the rains and wind from our storms pulled it over so I had to prune it so I could move it. It was huge, well over 15 feet, probably more like 18, and pretty full think I am going to pillar it when it has new canes.
Here is my America ( or there is my America -not sure how I managed to place it up there) leafed back out -considering -and blooming. The fragrance is lovely too.
braverichard (6a, North MO)
8 years agoYou folks are killing me! Wonderful pics indeed.
My climbers are all still very tiny as they were all planted as bands last year and this year. The only exception was Ramblin' Red which was planted in October last year as a 2-gallon own root plant as I couldn't find it for sale as a band. It is a completely blooming fool, we've had 3 light frosts here and it still doesn't care, still blooming with at least another 30 buds yet to open. I hope a hard frost doesn't get them, sure is nice to have so much color in November.
Pics from this morning.
bethnorcal9
8 years ago
oldrosarian