I would recommend iceberg. It seems it does very well in Cali and you couldn’t get a more floriferous rose. If you would like a more romantic looking rose I would try some of the almost white Austin’s. Claire Austin or Wollerton Old hall. They should bleach out in your heat and be very white. If you like simples Kew gardens would probably grow large enough for your obelisk and it is completely thornless. Marlorena has some good pictures of it.

I love Bolero .I doubt that it would overwhelm your obelisk and it is very healthy.

I love DA's Snow Goose, the flowers are small & daisy-like but lots & lots of them. No disease here in my coastal W.WA. garden & very well-behaved. My front garden is all-white, lots of roses, asters, nicotiana & Japanese anemones right now.

I would take advice for someone in your area - roses grown here seem to explode into much larger sizer than elsewhere, even the PNW. I would recommend you look at Pax. Very flexible canes, & gorgeous (if you like big singles) blooms & especially buds. Mine is very easy to prune to keep 7 ft tall. Of course, like 100% of the roses in my garden except some polys and one bourbon, it will get taller if you train/ask it to do so.

Jackie

Mme de Sombrieul, the original, not the thorny one that is the "imposter", although that is a wonderfully fragrant, beautiful rose.

Mme de Sombrieul is a nonstop bloomer and very healthy in my garden and seems to be a moderate climber, so far, at least.

Beautiful Honeymoon =). I would love this one.

Ooohhh, I love Honeymoon

'Sombreuil, Cl.' ?????

Ask about The Gift. It's the polyantha that isn't a polyantha. It can make five feet tall in two years and seven or eight feet in three or four. It has the single flowers of R. multiflora and it (in the east) is healthy as a horse..

Great reddish hip production in late fall through spring.

What a wonderful list. I'll check into all of these. Thanks, my friends!

I would love a pic of your copper obelisk! I have a little obsession with obelisks and tuteurs...

Let's see what I can do. Here is one of the five copper obelisks Tom has made for me.

And here is another one that has Cl Lady Hillingdon bursting forth from it. Such exuberance! Probably time to do some pruning but with my tendonitis it will have to wait.

Thank you! So pretty! I have tendonitis in my left elbow so I sympathize...

You are very welcome.

Tom makes them out of copper pipe, with the curved parts made from copper refrigerator tubing. He says it is easy, but five is probably all I will ever need so I won't ask for more. He has made several other trellises for me as well, custom fit to the specific location. I used to worry that the metal in the heat would damage the plants, but have never seen any sign of that happening.

Honeymoon is gorgeous. I have Penny Lane which might be similar. There are some good pictures of it on hmf. Mine's not very old but seems to have good vigor and repeat. The blooms were blah the first couple of years but now are very pretty especially in cooler weather.

I also like Moonlight

I've grown Moonlight twice and taken it out both times. It rips my skin. Even when I have gloves on it seems to reach out and find bare skin somewhere to shred. Pretty, though, which is why I tried it a second time. Nope, still bloodthirsty.

I really like the look of Honeymoon, though I actually had an older rose in mind, or perhaps a climbing poly if modern. Still, that looks at least old fashioned, and repeat blooming climbers are rare in the truly old, maybe tea-noisettes. (And I already have Lamarque, which would be too big anyway.)

Does anyone know if it is PM and rust resistant? And how frequent is the repeat?

Wow! That's one of the few bush shots of Moonlight I've seen. It's dreamy. I wonder if it's good in the midwest. : (( Rosefolly, do you have Mme.A.Carriere or would that get too large in your climate? I know there's also a cl. M.Koster so there may be a white version, although I can't remember if it's you who detests the Kosters. High Country Roses has a poly called pillow fight and a Lens HMusk called Guirland d'Amour (OoS at the moment), that might suit the bill.

So many suggestions of excellent and beautiful roses, but unfortunately not what I had in mind, have made me realize that my suggestion was not nearly specific enough in the requirements for this site.

Let me try again. I am looking for a repeat blooming, highly disease resistant, white pillar rose. It must be narrow as well as easy to train. Scent is optional. Think of a climbing verison of 'White Pet'. That's what I have in mind!

Once, I'd have said "Setzer Noisette" -- but now . . . It's one halacious wide pillar!

Oh, my!

Maybe I will look around for not-a-rose.

Rosefolly - have you searched climbing miniatures? I know some miniatures sport to climbers, just like other roses do. I grow climbing Rainbow's End, and it is easily trained and would stay narrow if you wanted it to. That is the only miniature I grow - can you search for white climbing miniatures on HMF?

Jackie

Indeed I have not, Jackie, and it is an excellent idea. Off to do research . . .

I've never grown Pax but I saw it in one Southern garden where it was trained as a short climber. It looks very charming. My understanding is that it's one of more disease resistant HMs and I love the story of its creation by Pemberton to commemorate peace after WW1.

I'm working on growing Cloud 10 up my front porch pillar right now, I'm a 1 1/2 years in and it's maybe made it 6 feet? so I doubt it would get too crazy but I don't know. I'm in southern california 10B and it's super clean, no rust, no mildew and so far the thrips aren't even messing with it. It has a fragrance and nice bunches of roses. This is kind of an old bloom but it looked like the bee was enjoying himself :)

Forgot about Pax. This is another white climber you might like. It does tend to bend over at the tips of the long canes but you can solve that problem easily. No problems in my garden.

White Cap is lovely too.

Oldrosarian, what is the name of the rose in your pictures?

Several of the roses people have suggested do appeal to me, but I am having trouble finding vendors that currently have them in stock. Pax is one such, and so are all the climbing polys or climbing minis that I found in my search.

I did find Cloud 10 and Honeymoon listed bare root at Regans. I may end up ordering one or the other of those, but have not yet made a commitment.

-I"ve seen R. moshchata espaliered to grow 4 feet wide by c. 10-12 feet tall to good effect, in the East S.F. Bay (California) area, where it's bulletproof and blooms from May through November.

It's got a lot going for it; gorgeous foliage, darling adorable blossoms, and a scent that makes me go "Oooh-la-la!"

I love white roses best and really hope you find a winner that you'll love for many years.

Lux

I looked at Heirloom, and they list White Cap, but it is currently out of stock. I'm always surprised to see fantastic classic roses less available than the untested newbies.

I used to grow R moschata and while it is a truly magnificent rose, it is way too big for this spot. Also it is a reach-out-and-grab-ya kinda rose, and this is right along a walkway.

Sheila, there is the appeal of novelty, which is why wonderful old roses get forgotten.

If I choose between Honeymoon and Cloud 10, it would be decided on repeat. I'd like to have a blaze of white as much of the time as possible.

Have you seen the Hybrid Musk Prosperity? Would it grow in your climate? If you want constant white then Prosperity would give you that. It grows tall ( 9 feet but can prune down ) and upright in my garden with no BS.

Prosperity

I'm more worried about powdery mildew than blackspot in my area. I've tried several hybrid musks that have suffered badly with PM, so I am reluctant to try another. It looks great in your photos, though. Perhaps I can go down to the San Jose Heritage Rose garden and see how it does there. I do believe that a field trip is in order.

It's not truly white -- rather, it's light yellow fading to near-white -- but I hear 'Yellow Sweetheart, Cl' does well in California. Ignore the HMF description stating it's very fragrant -- it's nearly scentless. A bonus is that it's thornless.

:-)

~Christopher

Speaking of pale yellow, there's also climbing Jackie which can be grown as a bush as well.

You have no idea just how big Cl. Jackie can get to be. It practically eats the world.

Folly -- One of my own problems with HMs is that they really want more water than I can provide these days.

Ok. Ur right. I've only seen it in zone 6 and what I read on Hmf.

In the Sacramento City Cemetery, eating a tree, it was . . . ASTONISHING.

I was just reading the Snowbird thread. Isn’t there a Cl. Snowbird?

Yes. But I don't know that it's in commerce.

I found several white climbers I really liked the look of that either were not in commerce at all, or were not available in the United States.

I really like the peach tones in Penny Lane. Honeymoon is quite stunning too.