I think most of the varieties you mention are too stiff, but would like to hear from others. Some of the Pemberton Hybrid Musks might do for you, they having a lax habit, rebloom (mostly spring and fall), the dimensions you're looking for, and fragrance. And they're easy to find. The following come to mind: 'Cornelia', 'Pax', and 'Buff Beauty'.

Zephrine drouhin would grow along the fence but it tends to be a one time bloomer for me. The spring flush is stunning and smells amazing and I have read that ZD can have a fall flush but so far mine has not but she is going on her 4th year and might start blooming more as she matures. Peggy Martin would also be a good choice but she also only blooms in the spring and fall for me.

I've seen Cecile Brunner grown well along a 3.5'-4' tall chain link fence. The others I'm not so sure about. There may be better options still, but I haven't grown climbers truly horizontally.

Pliable canes seem like a must for that application. I grow Clytemnestra as a climber and its canes seem suitable for such a habit. Maybe a Hybrid Musk as suggested above? Good luck!

Cl SDLM is generally effectively a spring and autumn bloomer. Some people on;ly get spring. Also balls like nobody's business. Excessively beautiful when its happy though.

ZD as mentioned above is iffy on the rebloom and temperamental to boot.

GT and CPM can be great, can be miffy, GT in particular can blackspot badly here.

Cecile Brunner might be your best bet of those you mention for rebloom and health.

There are lots of roses that would grow well in that situation, which makes it hard for me to recommend things - too many options!

Julie, as Bon Crow mentioned, Zepherine Drouhin would train well on your fence. Flexible and thornless and fragrant and pretty darn healthy! Since your Bonica roses are healthy, but my Bonca blackspotted at my last residence, I'm guessing ZD in your garden will be at least as healthy as my ZD. In TX, my mother's ZD rested more, like Bon Crow's. With maturity, my ZDs, both in my current garden and my past garden, bloom(ed) in clusters of silvery mid pink all summer with the biggest flush in late spring and a second lesser flush in fall. VERY fragrant and lovely planted with Clematis. Carol

Thank you everyone! Open to any suggestions, not just the ones I mentioned. How about Super Dorothy?

I like Super Dorothy, I planted 3 last year to climb up 3 pine tree trunks, also Pretty in Pink Eden is hot pink, eye catching when it's in bloom. Adam, Nahema, MAC, Reve d'Or are all pretty....plus all the David Austin climbers, you can pretty much grow everything in your zone......ARE has Belinda's Dream climber and Star of Republic climber, I really like them too.......Grandma's Hat, Arcadia Louisiana Tea.......

Yes I have Sally Holmes and agree she is fabulous. But our climate is so wet 9 months of the year she spots and "pinks".

I think your best choice for this application would be Mel's Heritage, which is a cross between a Wichurana Rambler and a Tea-Noisette. It has the lax, flexible habit for making a horizontal climber at the height you want. In fact, you'd be doing less "bending it down" and more "propping it up" on your 3-feet-tall fence. It reblooms. It's fragrant. And it was bred in the PNW by Paul Barden..

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~Christopher

Julie, there are 5 Super Dorothy roses waiting in my garage to go along a low split rail fence as soon as the ground is workable. I planned to use Pretty in Pink Eden, but was told the canes were too stiff to train horizontally. So, I opted for Super Dorothy. I've read that she is once blooming and also that she is a continual bloomer. I expect it's somewhere in between. All last summer, she bloomed in flushes in the nursery pots. Here are a couple photos from the internet. Ramblers are easier to train horizontally than climbers.

Super Dorothy

Cecile Brunner can get outrageously huge before you know it, here she is in my son's back yard with no fertilizer, and regularly pruned. It's on an arbor, in case you can't see it.

Cecile Brunner

Flower, I planted 6 Pretty in Pink Eden last year, you can train the canes on a fence. It's not that bad. If you still have room, give it a try, it's a beautiful rose. :-)

Summers, I was happy to find that the canes on PiPE are flexible enough to train back and forth at an angle, and not just straight up. Live and learn! And, what gorgeous blooms!! Your fence will be a show stopper. I'll look forward to photos. My Super Dorothys are bands, so it may be awhile before I have anything to show, but they do seem to want to bust out of those pots.

My CPM is totally floppy canes so I think it would train horizontally on anything of any height, but it's at most a once-bloomer for me. You might consider something among the mini climbers like Jeanne LaJoie, who has flexible canes and lots of small blooms. Colette or Lunar Mist are also options, as are some of the longer hybrid musks like Ghislaine de Feligonde or Ghirlande d'Amour or Cornelia. I drape quite a few roses that aren't supposed to be as tall as they are along some flimsy green fencing that's under 3' tall, like Champagne Moment or Dame des Chenonceau, and if you catch the canes early they put up with this treatment, although you have to keep coming back to tuck in the laterals that want to grow from the horizontal canes.

Cynthia