"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:33:28 +0100, Kay
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In article , Sally Thompson
writes

I'm not sure what you mean by 'it is not climbing at all'. Are we
talking about the rose here? Or is there some other PHM? If it is the
rose, do you mean that you don't have any long non-flowering new shoots?

Yes, sorry Kay, I realise that I didn't specify it was a rose. It is
growing happily but not beginning to climb over the arch. Are we
being too impatient do you think?
--
Sally in Shropshire, UK

I am surprised that it has not tried to grow even in a container (far from
ideal for this giant of a rose. My cuttings are usually about 4" in the
spring in 7cm pots, by May they are 4' and I pray to have sold them all by
now as its impossible to keep control beyond end of June! and that's in a
1.5lt pot. I have them on their own roots and wonder whether that may be
your problem, yours will probably be budded onto a rootstock, a grower like
D Austin would use a R multiflora stock for a big rambler but if has been
put on a R laxa stock (standard for bush roses) that would certainly slow it
up.
In any event I agree with Sacha long term a pot is no place for this rose,
so if you are replanting try putting it in deep and hoping it will form its
own roots.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)