Reliable and a repeater.

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1570.0

Don Juan is a beautiful red climber but it does much better in a warm climate. Even in the PNW it hates the rain and gets BS,plus doesn't grow well.

Make sure you watch video on how to train a climber. It will bloom beautifully.

Ditto on what Lynn and Nicole said... reliable and hardy. I'm in Northern Arizona and have two very mature Don Juans that are starting to bloom now. They bloom regularly and I almost always have cuttings inside which frequently last up to a week if cut on the early side. Just lovely.

Please add your zone and location for the best advice.

Does Don Juan produce rose hips?

No, Don Juan doesn't produce hips.

My DJ is going nuts right now. I am such a bad rose mommy, it is still in a 5 gal pot but has climbed up past the roof of our porch and bent over and made laterals and is bloomimg like crazy. It really is one of the prettiest roses in our yard. Even with the humidity and rain here, it rarely gets black spot and blooms almost continously.

I have both a red Don Juan and a pink Din Juan. The pink is a dark pink and smells heavenly, I like it better than the red.

Just a caution that the responders so far have been from zone 7 and above, which seems to be where Don Juan is happiest. I tried several times to overwinter him here in zone 5, and even in my virtual zone 6 spot he didn't make it. He's probably marginally hardy in zone 6 with protection, but for a climber you need more than marginal survival to climb much. For me, Dublin Bay has been a better hardy climber in that color scheme. A gorgeous rose, though, if he's happy.

Cynthia

Second Cynthia here. I am in 6b/6a. My Don Juan is 4 years old, and barely made it each winter. I never flower much because it is young, and more importantly, I assume it needs muster all the energy it needs to recover from the winters. I got it when I first get into roses and bought it from a local nursery, which apparently knows even less than I did about zone-appropriateness of roses.

It can be a beautiful rose, but I suspect it would never achieve its potential if you live in an area cold or as cold as 6a/6b. There are other red climbers, and, if you are in a colder zone, maybe look for something else. Dublin Bay is reliably cane hardy here in the NYC metro area, and the botanical garden in Brooklyn has a few gigantic ones that ought to be in full bloom soon. Truly a sight to behold. Not sure the hardiness of these, but might worth look into the new Kordes Florentina as well as Red Eden.

This is my DJ third year and I am dissappointed in it. It is very small, about 4 canes this year and it does flowers. But I didn't find the flowers appealing at all. Now to think of it, it doesn't have that hybrid tea shape either. I need to take a pic because I may have the wrong rose.