On 14/11/2013 16:01, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-13 22:50:19 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"sacha" wrote

I know this is one of those "how long is a piece of string?"
questions but I'd really like to id a rose we put up along a post and
some rope several years ago. There are thousands of roses so I know
the chances are slight. The buds are small and yellow at the base,
whiter at the tips, opening to rather blowsy but fairly small white
flowers. It flowers on and on and on.

Two questions... Is it a large plant or quite small for a climber?
Do some flowers have a pink petal or two in a pure white flower?

No pink, Bob and here, we've gotit to 10' up a pillar but then trained
it along some chain (used to be rope) It's forming arching branches and
could, I think probably go quite a bit taller in the right place. It
flowers generously and I've managed to get a photo today of the last two
very tatty blooms. Of all the hundreds of photos I've got of this
garden, that's probably the one place I hadn't done! Here's the photo
but it's rather more white than it appears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93694401@N03/10855615315/




Alberic Barbier? It's a rambler rather than a climber, but it has dark,
glossy green leaves like yours and grows to 5m.

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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay