Wow a Poulsen rose. It looks like a very nice rose. May I ask your location or plant hardiness zone. How long have you had your rose. It does look like a climber.

There are people that have far more experience than myself with climbers. They will come to your aid soon. Some will be able to share ideas for attaching or securing the rose to your post. You've done nothing wrong with it yet. The rose looks gorgeous.

A lot of times climbers won't do any real climbing, put out those long canes, until around the 3rd or 4th year. It takes time for them to build a big enough root ball to be able to feed and support those longer canes. In the mean time it grows the shorter ones to feed itself with. It looks lovely and healthy so I would say to just be patient.

Poulsen roses are top notch climbers but they usually are bred to grow much shorter than North American ones. This climber will probably grow to about 6 feet maybe a little taller if you garden in a warm winter climate. Poulsen's climbers are nice and bushy but they are not tall ones.

I was unaware that anyone sold Poulsen roses in the states. How lucky to run into some, hope you have some room for a large shrub somewhere in the yard.

It's looking good though. Love your trellis!

Colette or Laguna, but you won't find them at the garden centers. If you are near the Moorestown Mall this coming Saturday, the West Jersey Rose Society is having their annual rose show, open at 1. You can see a lot of varieties and ask questions of growers from the area.

farmerduck or AquaEyes 7a New Jersey may have other recommendations.

Here is the info on the Poulsen website. It matches what oldrosarian said about the height. 200 cm is about 6.5 feet. It is a beautiful rose. But it looks like you spent $59.99 on your garden center's advice. So if you don't have a space for it, I would talk to them to see what they can do for you.

Another idea would be to plant another climbing rose on the other side of the column to intertwine with this rose. I'm not sure if there is enough space for this, so maybe others with more experience can comment on this. I have six climbing roses, but the oldest ones are only three years old.

Jim, I added to my post and then saw yours. I have two climbing roses going up my pergola column. So, I'm hoping the answer is yes, they can grow together. I'm trying it out. So far, so good. If they become overcrowded, roses seem to do well with being moved.

Jim, use Help Me Find rose search to research any of your possible candidates. Not only will you get the growing height info, you can see loads of photos of the roses you might be interested in. It's a great resource for us rose lovers.

I am not qualified to answer your question on planting two climbers together, but my guess is that it might work both are vigorous. Yes, as Diana said, Laguna is a good choice. you will have a tall, thorny plant a few years if you go with Laguna. Also, check out Jasmina, another Kordes climber that is supposed to be super disease resistant and vigorous. It might be too long a drive, but you will see lots of climbers at the Bronx botanical garden growing with minimum/reduced chemical support. You might be able get a pretty good sense of how big they get and how easy to train them.

Idk if this type is ok in your zone, but I am almost positive it's hardy in zones 5-9? I know New Dawn is def a rose that will easily grow enough to cover that trellis with ease!

Two climbers that close together will likely give you a nasty thorny headache in 3-4 years, especially if the new climber you plant is one that is very vigorous. Your Farruca was just planted last fall, the weather is not too hot yet, better relocate it to somewhere else and get the very tall growing climber you wish to have in that spot instead. Farruca should take the transplant shock well provided you keep it watered well for 2-3 weeks. You can also feed it with one of the many transplant solutions out there, in my experience they greatly reduce shock.

Don't do Quadra for that trellis either, or Ramblin' Red. They too will eat it and your dog and maybe even you! lol

What about eden?

I'm not sure how much disease resistance and cold hardiness you need.

Lol, just planted 3 New Dawn last night for north facing wall. :-) New Dawn grows fast, other climbers/ramblers you'd have to wait for a few years, and they may not cover the whole trellis. You need a monster climber/ rambler that repeats.

The ones that farmerduck and I recommended will reach over the top of your structure. We are both in NJ. If you are in central NJ, the van der Goot rose garden at Colonial Park in Somerset has a large number of climbers on structures similar to yours.

nanadoll has a photo of Colette in this thread.

Dublin Bay is a known good red climber with flowers that are a deep, rich red. It throws out tall canes but not many so should look good on your white pillar. Leaving a couple of feet bare at the top of the pillar will show the rose off to perfection.

Dublin Bay

Dublin Bay bloom

Altissimo

If I were to pick a red climber I would pick Altissimo that reaches a height of 7-15 ft. I have seen it grow that tall and more. I like the single petal look too. Good strong straight canes.

There is also a hot pink climber called Pretty In Pink Eden, the blooms last for a long time and it repeats pretty fast........it's not red though, but pretty close.

Orfeo? Christopher has it in N.J. Mine is a baby from RVR doing very well. Cadenza is also great although not as many petals as Dublin Bay.

Just throwimg this out there for those interested that bel air/ raleys sells the poulsen climbing courtyard roses I've seen them for 20$ A 2.5 ft plant on a trellis farruca is a decent little plant.

You could always do as Paul Zimmerman suggests and leave it on the column and add another rose and train it to go up and across giving you blooms thru out

Sure but it is showing as sold out on there.

You are going to spray them? No need to bother buying them if you aren't.

Fungus. Blackspot. Most roses have disease problems in the eastern US. So unless you are going to spray fungicide, you have to be very, very careful about which varieties you chose.

Will Dublin Bay completely defoliate in a no spray garden? I just planted a bareroot one this spring and wasn't quite planning to spray it regularly. Fungal pressure is quite high here but so far nothing.

Dublin Bay defoliated here. However midwestern disease pressure isn't in the same league with eastern. Since the OP is in New Jersey, it is going to be an issue.

Looks like pest and fungus. I see holes in leaves probably from saw fly larvae. Dropped leaves are probably from fungus, can't tell now that they have been dropped but I do see that the remaining leaves have black spot on them.

Yep, it is exactly the larvae I suspected.

As for fungus, look for any fungicide that's safe for roses. I personally have an organic garden so I only spray sulphur and some organic mixes of baking soda/vinegar to control fungus on my roses. They obviously do not work as well as the pure chemicals but they do have a positive effect.

Jim, all you need for the rose slug (the things chewing your holes) is to blast the leaves and undersides with a strong stream of water. That'll knock off the larvae, and eventually the good bugs (and birds) will come in to eat the larvae and you'll be back to balance. If you want to spray some insecticidal soap, you can do so when the weather isn't too hot, but I don't find I need to do that. By all means, don't use a "complete" insecticide or those combination sprays that have everything in them. That's overkill.

The fungicide Braverichard is talking about is for blackspot, which may be part of why you've had that much leaf drop. It also may be heat or the process of settling in too, though, so be sure to water the plant deeply every couple of days if it's hot.

Cynthia

Yeah the plant has black spot on the upper leaves, look closely in the pic. As Cynthia said, a plant settling in or under excessive stress has a weaker than normal immune system and can succumb to stuff like fungus under those conditions.

Cynthia's recommendation for the slugs is good too, I used to be bothered by all that but with so many roses to care for you quickly learn to set priorities otherwise rose gardening becomes a chore and is no longer for fun. So yeah, I have a 6 feet tall by 8 feet wide double knockout whose leaves are all messed up by slugs/larvae and I just live with it. The bush itself is growing very well and blooming heavily as it always does. One one side of my yard it seems to be particularly bad as every rose over there is affected.