Zone 4 climbing roses and companions
Cassandra Conway
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Newbie looking for clematis as companion to climbing roses
Comments (5)Hello Bellarosa, Wow your pictures are so lovely! I love your combinations and I loved the photo of Billy Baffin with the nepeta and liatris and daisies down below to hide Billy's knees. Absolutely gorgeous! You should be proud that you have such a lovely home and garden, with a hubby that will actually dig you holes! Wow. Your pictures gave me a breath of summer, since we still have a ways to go before we will be smelling any roses in New England (that we've grown ourselves, anyway!) Tmac96 - I don't grow any of the roses that you ordered, but I do grow the clematis that Bellarosa mentioned and those vines are very easy after the third year. I have a rose garden in the front of my house (sorry no photos like B.R.) in an oval with an obelisk in the center. The obelisk is where the clematis climbs. I have three separate types/colors growing together. Madame Julia Correvon, Etoile Violet and Comptess DiBouchard. Since I'm a "lazy gardener" I cut all the vines down to 12" from the ground when I see the forsythia bloom. Every year this will be a different time, based on the weather. If I had the vines growing on the roses or along with the roses on a trellis, I would cut the vines at the 12" height and simply unravel them from the rose bush, cutting away any pieces or parts that might harm a swelling rose bud. Do a little reading on the types of clematis, A,B, or C or 1,2, or 3. Try to plant the types that get cut to the ground in early spring -- they are easy and very rewarding. (I require - high R.O.I. Return on Investment!!!) It's not so much the cost of the plants, or even the hard hole-digging labor, -- it's the anticipation I can't stand. I love the plants that come back every year bigger and better than ever with hardly any work on my part. Oh! And O yeah, plenty of reading and posting on GardenWEB....See MoreGood climbing rose for zone 4/5?
Comments (32)Just got another catalog today and have been looking into the climbers..... Well for now, just the roses and the clematis. I've actually added a third (annual) vine before which too works. However sometimes 3 is a crowd. Apart from rose climbers, I've actually been thinking of what to grow over a trellis of mine and I'm concidering getting a green grape vine. So now, get back to your homework....See Moreclimbing rose for zone 4
Comments (2)The above-mentioned roses are among the hardiest for our climate though as you've mentioned you prefer a pale color. John Davis rose is a pink color but unfortunately, it's really sort of an arching rose, that can sometimes be used as a small climber (it probably wouldn't climb more than 4 feet, however so might not be that high up the arbor). Maybe a clematis would do the trick. As long as it was in clematis "pruning group C" (blooms on new growth) or "pruning group B" (blooms on both old growth and new growth) then even if killed to the snowline in our zone it would still bloom that summer. Unfortunately, maybe the color choice here isn't that great either. I have a purple Jackmanii clematis that I cut to within a foot of the ground each fall (it dies back anyways). In spring it climbs about 7 feet up the side of my arbor and starts to grow over top. I still need another plant, however, for the other side of the arbor. Glen...See MoreClimbing Red Rose for Boulder, zone 4
Comments (12)I am trying a vintage rambler (1961) called ILLUSION this year. It is a lovely, vibrant red. Available thru Vintage Gardens. I'm trying other old roses through them as well. Some like CECILE BRUNNER and the David Austin CONSTANCE SPRY are said to make nice climbers or you can prune them to keep them as shrubs. I had horrible luck with hybrid tea climbers because they usually bloom on old wood and mine die back to the ground every year. Because of the Indian Summer last year I had flowers last fall on my climbing Peace. I think it has flowered 2 or 3 times in 12 yrs....it needs a new home. I've had wonderful luck with old, own-root climbers. I have a DOROTHY PERKINS (small pink clusters) that has nearly eaten a porch it got so big. No fragrance and no rebloom on that one. Very little die back at all. I also have one that was a cutting from my grandmother's. I think we've identified it as MARY LOVETT. This one is white with yellow buds, tea like, sweet fragrance and does rebloom. Moderate die back each year but it really does well on the bloom. Another oldie that I received in a trade last year is New Dawn. It is a soft, pastel pink and occasional rebloomer. My very small cutting survived the winter with minimal mulch and not a bit of it died back. You can look these and other roses up on the Rose HelpMeFind website. Here is a link that might be useful: ARS HelpMeFind Rose database...See MoreVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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