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Rambling roses

5 years ago

Hi, I'd like to add a few ramblers to my garden. What are your favorites?

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User

5 years ago

Another vote for 'Alexandre Girault'... photo below is an old one from a previous garden and I found that if I didn't prune it after the main flush, but just left on all the old flowering shoots and spent blooms, then it repeated with blooms right into autumn, a few here and there, not a whole mass of course, but when I pruned it after the main flush, removing all old spent flower clusters back to the framework, I didn't get any later flowers on it..

...these days 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' is the only rambler I have that's usually declared to be one. Garden too small...

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User
5 years ago
o, gosh,I've got quite a few "favourites", lol! Let's see:

Alexander Girault for it's colour and vigour. It gets pretty huge. But it's a floppy one,and to get it into a tree, for example, would require work

Seven Sisters for it's colour. It's an upright grower,unlike AG.

Henri Barruet for it's colour. It's floppy-ish. I don't have a mature plant of this, but I think it's much less rambunctious than AG

Hiawatha for it's long bloom time! It's an up-right grower.

Mannington Mauve for it's COLOUR. It is up-right enough to make it feasible to grow it as a huge, fountaining shrub, methinks...
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mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
5 years ago
Baltimore Belle is a good one.

I have Dorothy Perkins, but it hasn't been happy here. It is probably a pH issue common to the multiflora hybrids. Because of that, I've avoided things like Veilchenblau.

Years ago, I grew Alexandre Girault. Since it needs to overwinter cane to bloom, I got about 5 flowers from it in 5 years. If I ever end up in a warmer climate, I'd try it again, but not here.
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We moved here 2 yrs ago, to a garden that was just lawn and a few evergreen fir trees and a large hedge of Leylandii,we decided to dig up the evergreen fir trees from the lawn and make some flower borders, and we did, we love roses and our favorite is a rambling rose from David Austin, called Alexandre Girault, we had one in our old garden in Wales and it was spectacular!! so we bought one for this garden, it has been in just over 2 yrs and it has not had any flowers on it yet, and now it's leaves are starting to go a crispy brown curl up and drop off, and it is not on it's own, we also bought a Hawthorn tree called Crimson Clouds, which we also had in our old garden and it to put on a show to die for !!!! but not these!!! we are so disappointed, the rose has grown and covered the side and roof of a garden shed, but it doesn't look healthy at all, and the Hawthorn has the same trouble with the leaves turning brown and crispy and then dropping off!! any ideas please, and what can we do for them??
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Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
5 years ago
I think what HCR sells as 7Sisters would be hardy for you. Others I've admired in more Northern gardens are Veilchenbleu, Chevy Chase, Red Ribbons. There should be some in the thread "What real rose gardens used to be like" in the links to Wooster's Rose Garden of Legend and Romance. They had many there.
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bella rosa
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks so much everyone! Great pics too. I'll have to search around for growers that sell these. Thanks again.
oldrosarian
5 years ago
I have many of my Ramblers on the Palatine Nursery. They ship to the States.
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