Hi Sheryl. There are lots of others here who will have more experience than me, but I have found that Raspberry Cream Twirl is pretty agreeable to being trained. Try to be careful and gentle, but don’t worry too much about breaking one or two canes. If it happens, just cut it back to a budeye where it will grow again (just like when pruning).

I would try to tie all the canes in. I find myself needing to tie/train Raspberry Cream Twirl again about once a month because it grows so fast. This is why I wouldn’t worry about breaking a few canes. It will grow again!

Let us know how it goes once you finish! Take photos! :-)

You did a great job! That slope looks scary! What a wonderful home. It’s all just absolutely gorgeous.

Looks like you have good support and did a great job. When your roses and companion plants fill in, the lines will grow naturally softer. However, it looks lovely now and so does your log house!

Climbing roses are my favorite. I got my start by watching the Paul Zimmerman videos. Search for Paul Zimmerman Roses on YouTube and he will teach you everything you need to know. He is humorous too and will put you at ease about growing roses.

I think your yard is gorgeous! Can't wait to see pictures of it when it has matured a bit. You will have to post them for us.

Looks great! And, I agree that the plants growing in will soften the lines. I also love the color combo with the lavender.

What a fabulous place

I love all of your hardscape. Things will soften as the plants fill In but you have a wonderful foundation to plant around. Congratulations on your stunning home

I’m so jealous of your beautiful property. It’s looking fantastic and will only get better over the years as things mature.

Some folks like the hips for winter interest, but I'm thinking that in zone 8a you don't get a lot of winter, and definitely not in June. The hips are the rose's seeds so if you want it to keep flowering it's best to cut off the hips. It won't hurt anything to leave them on, but it can be a signal to the rose to shut off flowering if there are a lot of them. If you regularly deadhead the rose (snap off the knob of dead bloom behind the spent petals) then it won't form hips until you're tired of deadheading and ready for winter interest and hips.

Cynthia

I love this addition to your property! Do you know what the roses are?

That's a beautiful Hardy Rose with a lovely fragrance. I remember when you first posted. Please continue as the plantings mature.

James Galaway should be stunning g on your trellis.

You guys have really created an incredible palette for your gardens

Sheryl, what you can do with roses like the last picture is just wait till one of those clusters stops blooming and cut the whole cluster back further down on the stem. The rose is big enough that a little haircut like that won't bother it at all, and that would involve no more than a dozen pruning cuts for the blooms there. You do want to deadhead when possible because it signals the rose to keep putting out more blooms, assuming it's a repeat bloomer.

Cynthia

Sheryl May 8a if you’re still on here... will you pleeease give up a photo update with how your roses and garden is doing?

I’m considering the raspberry twirl rose you have planted among others, and would love to see and hear about how yours is doing. I’m in Southern California zone 10B.

Ann-SoCalZ10b it's Winter here in Bavaria, so there is nothing but bare canes right now. My raspberry twirl grows super fast and it sometimes gets away from me on getting the canes tied up.

Thank you for responding Sheryl. It’s 80 degrees F here today... so I forget that many other parts of the world is still experiencing snow and cold.

I can’t wait to see what it does for you in the spring.