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Fragrant White Climbing Roses
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? The old ones have long since expired due to a combination of neglect and black spot - so long ago (decades) that replanting should not be a serious problem. The situation in North Yorkshire is fairly exposed to wind, one side is roughly S facing with some dappled shade at midday and the other N facing. There would be room for 2 or 3 roses on each side assuming a 4-6' spread of each plant. Ideally we would like very fragrant, simple flowers with disease resistance and colourful rose hips in autumn. I had a quick look at a few catalogues but I have no idea how the plants really behave. A long short list of candidates so far includes a few very old roses still growing in neighbours gardens (but most of them are martyrs to fungal diseases like black spot and orange something or other). Of the named varieties in catalogues the following seem to fit the bill: Alba Maxima Alba Semi-Plena Alberic Barbier Blanc Double de Coubert Blanche de Belgique City of York Iceberg Climber Long John Silver Mme Legras de St Germain Mrs Herbert Stevens Warnings if any of these are unsuitable would be very helpful. 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? Thanks for any advice. Regards, Martin Brown |
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