there is a chance she will but a chance she will not climb. Usually if a climber is cut back seriously in a season 2-3 times, it discourages it from climbing. It is similar to weeds that you continue removing. At some point, they get the idea that they are not supposed to grow there. Well, if you continue cutting back a climber (sometimes only once is the key) it will get the idea, it is not to climb. But, I have many climbers that I now grow as rose bushes because I cut them back as soon as they threw long canes. I don't have room for 60 climbers, but I have room for about that many big bush roses. I do wish Jon of Wessex, England, would post here about the key to growing climbers as bushes. I had known this from a brother-in-law but he gave a very good reason as to why that is. I do wish I had saved it. My BIL grew many climbers and he had told me before he died how to keep them as bushes or to move them and continue to grow them as climbers by leaving 3 long canes on the move and cut the rest of the bush back by a third.

Plant it now, but make sure the bud union, the graft, the knobby point where The New Dawn is likely growing on another root stock, is 2 to 4" below grade. Otherwise you may be planting an annual. I have planted roses just before the snow flew and not lost them. The ground is still warm enough for the rose to develop new roots. Plant in the native soil and add amendments like compost on top, much like Cynthia recommends. A great rose, but huge even here. Good luck with it. Steve

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I have become convinced that ND is not suitable for an arbour unless you combine it with a swag and then diligently train the canes onto the swag. In late July we will be cutting our ND back completely, to the top of the arbour and starting over, swagging every cane of a suitable size from the begining. The consensus of rose folks seems to be that ND will survive the treatment. We didn't start swagging our ND until there was already a thick accumulation of canes on the top of the arbour and dangerous tentacles reaching out everywhere - those thorns are NASTY! Even with the swag, the volume on top of the arbour has grown, because it's not easy to work with the stuff up there because of the thick tangle of older canes - not to mention at least three different clematises... I am concerned at this point that ND will bring down the arbour/south alley gate if we don't do something about it! So it's time to clear the slate an start again. My advice is only go for it if you've got an appropriate set-up to control it and are willing to be diligent in controlling it (which we weren't for the first few years, and then it was too late...) Given our experience I really think the appropriate place for ND is trained along a relatively low fence (4' or so); tie it in to the fence as if the fence was a swag. A low fence would make it easy to work with it - as opposed to needing a stepladder in the case of an arbour. Good luck.