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

Pegging only works with roses that grow up to 7 feet. Longer than that and it looks unruly. Since this white dawn is a climber and not a rambler, this technique is not adviseable. Pegging for those who are curious, is a way to get more flowers out of a cane. You take the tip of the cane and pegging it down to the ground, forming an arch. The exposed horizontal parts of the canes gets more sunlight and hence may develope into flowers. Pegging is not exclusive to containered roses. However, Tammy this is a technique you can use to achieve the look you want. Cheryl, - with this particular rose, you do not have a choice but to train it on a trellis or a fence. I've seen new dawns trained on a rock fence and it looked spectacular. You could probably create a square trellis so the rose can grow upwards and out like an umbrella. You can pair it up with a equally vigorous clematis such as a jackmanii. Ianna

I have never heard of cutting back a bare root rose at planting unless there is some dead cane to be removed. Pruning of any kind always stimulates TOP growth, not the roots. You can leave all the hips on you want. The rose will not go dormant. It will continue to put out growth until the weather stops it. I've left hips on from the spring flush in June and the rose continued to grow and bloom right through until October. New Dawn is such a growth monster that I can't see any purpose in disbudding it. The roots are growing, count on it! Roses, climbers in particular, will not send up more cane than their root system can sustain. Hence the saying for climbers, first year sleep, second year creep, third year leap. Those first few years that it seems to not be doing anything it is in fact building a big enough root ball to be able to push nutrients up those long canes you're waiting for. Once it feels it has sufficient roots to do that it will begin to climb.

Oooooh! She is beautiful with that red rose! Does she have room to grow out away from the railing, ie she’s not right in a walking area? If she does, then she is probably fine. Mine is on her own roots and is extremely disease resistant. She isn’t getting all that much water either so she seems very adapted for a hot dry climate. You could tie some of the canes up and then horizontally on the railing. Also a few could be trained to wind around the post. I have seen some incredible pictures of her with blooms all along the canes. while some roses ( I’m looking at you Paul Neyron) want to only bloom on the very tip of the cane. She should bloom all along the canes once established, which would be gorgeous along that white railing and maybe even up the post.