We have several Florentina's available at Northland Rosarium this season! It will ship in 4x4x6 band to all US states. Florentina is growing very well in our display garden this year! Here is a photo from our garden. As a first year rose in Zone 5, it did remarkably well. Canes are flexible.

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Exciting to see Carol. I just planted Florentina that I received from you last October. I'm looking forward to spring. The real test will be to see how it does in my hot summer.

I just ordered one from edmunds. Can't wait to see it bloom.

I hope to grow this rose one day but not sure how it does in zone 5. I guess that it isn't cane hardy.

JJ scroll up - Patty grows it and she's in Z5 as well. There is hope :)

not to be a dork or anything but I have never grown a climbing rose. I have Florentinia arriving soon I'm going to put it on a trellis. Do you attach it to the trellis with zip ties what do you use to attach a climbing rose to its trellis

I have been using green gardeners tape (probabaly avail at any gardening store), but I'm no pro! https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Tie-Tape-Green-150/dp/B00S31JQUI

I guess you could use zip ties if you didn't tie them too tight. I tend to like mine to not be able to wobble around inside the tie and to stay where I tie them tho... the stretchy tape allows that and also seems to allow them to grow as well.

I have used green garden tape, green nylon cord ect. They all seem fine as long as it is not something that soaks up water and stays wet.

Cut up pantyhose also works well. Walmart sells packets of knee-highs cheap. I've found this works well for the strong growth of New Dawn.

Thank you, all good ideas.

JJPeace - just to back up Patty and Dingo's comments, Florentina is rock solid cane hardy for me in zone 5 and a terrific climber. It's not in any protected spot and gets the sweeping wind all winter, and it pretty much laughs it off. Not insanely hardy like the Canadian Explorers, but reliably hardy in zone 5.

Cynthia

Good to know! What rootstock is yours on?

I got mine from Palatine so it must be on Multiflora. I think it'd do well on its own roots if that's the way it came, though.

Cynthia

My Florentina today's bloom, grows fast in my garden.

Gorgeous. What a color

Very pretty

Yay! Cant wait for mine to come!

Oopps, sorry missed all the comments. Cane hardy? Really? Wow, I must get this rose. I have been looking for a nice red climber that is cane hardy in my zone. The only one I seem to like that I know is cane hardy is Quadra. But if Florentina is cane hardy, I would prefer this rose. Thanks!

My florentina has buds that are about to open for the first time. Can't wait. I need patience. Meanwhile, I found this video: Florentina posted on Youtube. Sheila, did you ever get Florentina?

Yes, jasminerose, I did. The plant is lovely here. The flowers are gorgeous, and it naturally went into a fan shape.I'm looking forward to the bloom too. Later than yours of course.

Great to hear, thanks.

Mine grew well this year, but absolutely no blooms at all:( The plant is healthy though.

Oh but the foliage is so perfect. And the growth extraordinary. And when it blooms it is sooooo pretty. My camera doesn't capture the pure red color of this one well at all. It is not pink. Pure red.

Valerie - be patient with a climber, particularly in cold zones. Very often they spend their first year or two putting down roots rather than blooming, and that's what we want from them. The stronger the roots now, the stronger the blooms will be. Do think about pulling your canes horizontally on your supports if you haven't already and then it will put out lateral canes off those horizontal main canes that will be the ones that bloom best.

Cynthia

Sheila if you prune yours this year could you post photos of it pruned and trained in a fan across that wall?

I can see how I can get the growth in the back to climb on the trellis but she is very shrub like. Does that make sense?

I will get a photo later when it blooms, Cori Ann. I have just let it alone gracefully arching so far.

I did this with my Florentinas, who I have nicknamed “You Red Thorny B*tch.”

This may not be helpful at all, as I have designed it intermingling with the once bloomers Castro Breen Red Climber (maybe Bloomfield Courage) and Seven Sisters (so many are sold under this name, who knows what this one really is), as well as Sombreuil. So it takes a keen eye to differentiate Florentina canes in these photos.

Heres a hint, they look like the thick ones in this photo (which is why I call her “You Thorny Red B*tch).

Very flexible. But oh it’s so thorny.

Heres what I did with my 2. Please excuse the mess I’m not done cleaning up yet. And remember I have them mingling with several others.

Probably a good strategy Sheila. Especially for your design. I have mercilessly trained mine.

Sheila, the mature specimen I posted about last year at Peter Schneider's Open House had definitly morphed into a huge tall bush. It originally had a support somewhere within its mass, but certainly didn't seem to need it any longer. I'm hoping to do a hybrid form of training with mine letting some canes fall forward, although with its thorn that might make it difficult to get to those espaliered. Hmmmmm.

Cori Ann, would you have any pictures of yours blooming together? Even having seen this rose blooming in person, I'm having a hard time placing her where she won't clash with my front yard plants. I'm looking for a "segue" rose that will help transition from black-eyed Susans and natural daylilies to Fl's deep red.

Cori Ann you crack me up!! Must be one fierce rose .

Vapor I am also having a problem with including reds in my garden. I plan on flanking mine with pink ( like nahema , quietness or soer Emmanuel) or white but i don't think I have any large white roses coming. I never wanted reds because of this but here were are :)

i cant wait I see everyone photos of them in bloom !

I think red matches everything so I’m no help. And I do not keep a lot of photos year over year, so I’m no help there either. Plus last year they were brand new so not a lot of blooms anyways.

I will have some in about 2 months though.

Cori Ann , hope you see this.. was theee an app you used when you were planning your colors in the garden ? Like a pic one where you moved them around ? Or am I imagining things. I could use that info if so.

Pic Stitch app for iPhone... maybe for other phones too. You will love it for all sorts of things. :-)

This is mine right now on a rainy day. It bloomed very well last summer. No training.

Looks great Sheila. Look at all of those laterals on the cane arching down to the right. It is looking really wonderful!

Thanks Cori Ann ! :)

sheila that looks very vigorous! And no support behind it ? It looks far from the wall to me

Lilyfinch I should say that I train my roses way too close to fences, walls and things by all the well known standards. I just don’t follow that rule. Sheila’s is probably exactly the distance recommended from a wall, while mine is probably way closer than recommended, but nonetheless just where I like it. :-)

Yes, Lily, it might be 3 ft from the wall. It is self supporting and made laterals without help. I admire it's being self supporting.

Yes it’s definitely flexible and also sturdy, great combo. I really like how it looks gracefully arching in front of that wall Sheila. Great design!

Here’s a Pic Stitch of the photos I do have from the area Vaporvac and Lilyfinch. I didn’t have any that I could find of Seven Sisters, but just imagine another climbing rose in there too that has a bunch of different colors - it has all shades of pink to creamy white. I like all of them together. I don’t think red clashes with anything as long as you blend it in, but that’s just me. And red is my fav color. :-)

Well this gave me a bit of peace of mind about where I would like to plant my new florentina. I have a spot that needs this rose, alas its right where the north winter wind swoops. I think, tho, with the input from this thread I will try it.

Yes. I encouraged you to try it as it is a very hardy rose.

Mine really filled out here. Not blooming yet but very attractive, healthy bushy plant.

Back center is Florentina.

Beautifully dark and lush, Sheila, and I love that the foliage of the adjacent roses contrasts. It's not often I see a rose out of bloom and think, "nice, healthy bush."

I have a question..I'm leaning towards Florentina.

I have a block wall(6' high) and on one side of an entrance over which I have a sort of trellis.. I have Sombreuil and was thinking of Florentina on the other side.

The wall faces north west..so gets plenty of sun in the afternoon..would Florentina be OK in this location? Morning shade. Sombreuil is positively thriving. In fact huge!!

Sombreuil has covered the trellis and heading off in the other direction along the wall..I removed the 2nd Sombreuil from the other side of the entrance so she wouldn't cover my garage!! I i live in Oregon in zone 7.

I moved the other Sombreuil in early summer and she is taking off in spite of our 100 degree heat wave!! Any one wants a gung ho rose Sombrueil is it!! Does need dead heading to keep blooming though.

I re-read the posts..LOL So looks like Florentina (Red Thorny Bitch) will fit there well and really fill the space..on the other side of the entrance from Sombreuil (The White Thorny Bitch) LOL Maybe a little shade will keep RTB under control a little? LOL

Florentina from Palatine very prolific bloomer, blooms last a long time even in the heat. love the colour bloom clusters

Florentina closer

Wow!