You have my sympathies with RRD! Been there. (Actually, more accurately: being there right now...) #1. I recently had to find the answer to question #1 for myself. The answer I received indicated that 99.99% of the time, one year is long enough to wait for replanting in the same spot as far as coming down with RRD again goes, because if the infected rose is going to regenerate from its infected roots, it will almost surely do so within a year. If it does regenerate from its infected roots, of course, any mites in the area would have the capability of passing the infection to the newly planted rose. You don't necessarily have to wait a year, but you are taking a greater risk if you don't wait that long. I'm going to wait a year. #2. I'm not sure about the answer to #2, except that I know the answer is unrelated to Rose Rosette Disease. The potential reason to avoid using the same hole would be a concern for Rose Replant Disease, which sometimes (or maybe even frequently) does occur in England. I don't know whether it happens on this continent or not, or if it does happen whether it happens frequently enough to worry about. If it were actually sometimes a problem here too, two years would be long enough to wait on replanting in the very same hole. But along a fence, you probably could just easily move the new hole over a bit anyway, right? #3. My Cornelia Hybrid Musk, before succumbing to RRD, liked to throw out extremly long canes that were beautifully flexible and had a zillion little stems with buds on them. So I think Cornelia would be nice on a fence, and it's as beautiful a rose as you can imagine. It's also likely to have fewer disease issues than Golden Showers for most people. (However, it appears that you were quite lucky with Golden Showers there, so maybe you might want to think "Don't fix what ain't broke!") Lots of Hybrid Musks might work. Some: Wilhelm, Prosperity, Bubble Bath, Lavender Lassie. Some other possibilities (that I don't have experience with, but have seen recommended by others): Felix Leclerc, Soaring Spirits, Goldfinch, Rosarium Uetersen (Seminole Wind), Abraham Darby. I do have (a new) Climbing Iceberg and that might work well for you, even though it can get blackspot. New Dawn is supposed to be easy to grow, though it does have more thorns than some other choices. Mortimer Sackler ought to work well, as long as you don't count on too much distance (lovely, fragrant, low thorns, healthy). I'll enclose the link to Help Me Find's website so you can search on whatever varieties you might be interested in. Best wishes, Mary Here is a link that might be useful: HelpMeFind rose search

Yes, depending on the rose, and how big it thinks it should get before it blooms. Do you know the name or type of your rose? I had a Belle Portugaise which grew 15 feet tall (over 4 years) before it produced its first bud! Jackie

Gary, please don't hate me but in some ways I prefer your Before picture. I feel that a bed of just roses, especially modern ones, can look rather boring and uninspiring. How would you feel about putting in some companion plants? I have reblooming irises, sea lavender (limonium perezii), ivy geraniums (which are really pelargoniums), penstemon and a few day lilies and it makes the whole bed look more natural and somehow friendly. I'm adding some pictures and you'll be able to decide whether you like that look or not. I have a larger garden in the country so it looks a bit wild and uncontrolled, but it works for the hilly, natural terrain I live in.

@DDinSB (Z10b Coastal CA) I had the same situation with mine, both bought as two liter (I think that's about half a gallon?) pots last spring. Teasing Georgia put out just a few blooms last year and mostly spent her time growing like crazy. Now is taller than me and full of little laterals, so I fully expect a show this year. My other so-called climber, Crown Princess Margareta, hasn't climbed at all and has remained a short but wide shrub. Not a single flower last year. I don't mind at all if she wants to be a shrub, but I hope she flowers this year! Based on what the others are saying, it seems to be par for the course for climbers when they are still young and haven't put on much size yet. We just have to be patient I guess!