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CL Cecile Brunner Growth habit?
Hey all,
After much research, I just planted the very first of my rose garden. I purchased a Cecil Brunner Climber (along with 3 rugosas) to run along a fence in our backyard, in the tidewater area of VA (zone 7A/B ish.. we're right on the edge). Can anyone tell me what to expect in the first few years in terms of growth? Thanks so much! Rachel |
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On 18 Apr 2005 12:37:34 -0700, "Rachel" wrote:
Hey all, After much research, I just planted the very first of my rose garden. I purchased a Cecil Brunner Climber (along with 3 rugosas) to run along a fence in our backyard, in the tidewater area of VA (zone 7A/B ish.. we're right on the edge). Can anyone tell me what to expect in the first few years in terms of growth? Thanks so much! Rachel You can expect very vigorous growth. This first year will lay the groundwork for the coming years, but it won't be HUGELY dramatic. You will probably get some nice 6 - 8 foot canes. But it won't look really impressive until next year. That's the year that you will start getting more really thick basil growths. You'll be amazed at the third year. You should have a very full growth with LOTS of 15 foot canes. You can see the progression he http://www.pbase.com/teleburst/cecile_brunner The first pic is about 3 months after planting. The second two are from year two. The last is from year three (last year). I haven't taken any shots this year yet. However, the tree fell late last year, so now I'm going to have a huge shrub. The canes were stout enough that I didn't lose a single cane, but I was lucky that the tree fell in the direction of the growth of the canes and not against it. While you can certainly train the canes horozontally along the fense, and this will encourage additional offshoots from the major canes (when you bend them slightly, this seems to do the trick), this plant wants to grow upwards. If you want a REALLY impressive plant, you might install a teepee type arrangement of poles somewhere near the planting. I'd make them about 15 foot poles and spread them out so that there's a nice framework for them to grow. That way, you'd have something like you see in the last photo as well as good coverage of the fence. If you want to get REALLY industrious, you could install a large 10 foot tall lattice about 10 feet wide. You'll have some nice 15 -20 foot canes thatwill start to arch when they get taller than the lattice. BTW, depending on the kind of climber that you got (apparently, CB has both blooming and non-blooming varieties), you might have almost continuous blooming from about May until November. Some CBs are once-blooming, but mine blooms all of the time with only a few pauses for rest. You probably won't know that until the second year though. |
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Thanks so much for all the good info!! I hadn't thought about how to
encourage it upwards, I must say I like the teepee idea. Its supposed to be continuous blooming, I purchased it from Heirloom Roses, and they advertised it as such.. hopefully it will be true to the advsrtising. I've read a little bit about pegging roses, climbers in particular, to encourage growth. Will Cecile Brunner respond to that well, or will it just become a monster? --Rachel |
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On 19 Apr 2005 13:02:46 -0700, "Rachel" wrote:
Thanks so much for all the good info!! I hadn't thought about how to encourage it upwards, I must say I like the teepee idea. Its supposed to be continuous blooming, I purchased it from Heirloom Roses, and they advertised it as such.. hopefully it will be true to the advsrtising. I've read a little bit about pegging roses, climbers in particular, to encourage growth. Will Cecile Brunner respond to that well, or will it just become a monster? I don't think you need to worry about growth. Pegging *might* be helpful to encourage full growth at ground level so that you get a "hedge-like effect, though. |
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