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Martin Brown writes:
| Help! I know very little at all about roses. Please can anyone suggest
| likely candidates for reinstating a village tradition of having fragrant
| white climbing roses growing through the church lych gate?

Don't ignore a species rose. I am not really a rose person, so
can't advise.

| It would be nice if the choices extended the flowering season over a
| reasonable period of summer. And I am unsure how much of a maintainence
| trap "vigorous" climbing roses might be. Any recommendations of what
| might fit the bill or where to go and see some of these roses growing?

I am sure of the effect of vigorous climbing roses - don't even
contemplate them. They could block the lych gate if left alone
for even a week or two at the wrong time of year.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.