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Sacha[_1_] · 02-10-2006, 05:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 2/10/06 16:53, in article , "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

"Sacha" wrote
I may be asking for the moon but I'd be grateful for suggestions for a
climbing or rambling rose to go up the front of our house. We've just
removed a poorly flowering Wisteria. I'd like a disease resistant,
strongly
fragrant, repeat flowering vigorous climber or rambler. Any ideas? Ray &
Matthew are very wary about roses in this part of the country because our
mild, damp climate seems to give too many rose diseases their head!

Poorly flowering Wisteria? I can't remember, is it a North facing wall then?
Or in shade? :-)
If so it might have some bearing on what rose you can plant.

No, it's the south front of the house, facing the big lawn and new pond,
cedar tree at bottom of lawn etc. We don't know why it was flowering poorly
but it was very old so perhaps it simply ran out of steam. It didn't have
masses of flowers anyway and they came out at the same time as, or just
after the leaves so one never saw much of them, either. It might have been
just not terribly good in the first place, of course but we don't know that.
The other thing is that it's at the back of that very wide border so
impossible to get to in full growing/flowering season, without trampling on
something else. This meant that all the tendrils had ample opportunity to
find their way into guttering, under roof tiles and obliterate our dressing
room window. What with that and the Rosa banksiae lutea and Clematis
rehederiana which are outside the bedroom window and have been blown down a
bit in the gales, it felt as if we were living in an aquarium!
We're also considering the benefits of two types of Clematis, though we
won't get strong scents from those. However, chosen carefully, we could get
them flowering over a long period. The C. rehederiana is up to the roof top
and is flowering profusely now - it looks absolutely wonderful.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/