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Climbing/Rambler Roses
I have just received 2 climbing roses as a gift - Dublin Bay and Penny
Lane - and am trying to find the best position for them. At the back of one of our flower beds we have a 2.5ft ornamental wall beyond which is a paved area. If I were to plant one at each end of the back of this bed, would they "trail/ramble" along the wall or do I need to find somewhere where they can climb more vertically Would appreciate any advice Jeanne |
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These two roses are both modern climbers and I would say more suited to climbing than rambling. From my (limited) experience, climbing roses have stiff stems and are less flexible than the ramblers which would happily spread along your wall. However, I would also add that rose stems that can be trained/pruned to spread horizontally produce more flowers so maybe its worth a go? You need to train the stems whilst they are young and flexible. I looked up my Peter Beales catalogues and it says that Penny Lane will grow to 12 x 8' and Dublin Bay 'a useful pillar rose' 7 x 5'. If you haven't already, why don't you also post your question to garden banter: rec.gardens.roses . Good luck. jay jay |
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Climbing/Rambler Roses
Jeanne Stockdale wrote in message ... I have just received 2 climbing roses as a gift - Dublin Bay and Penny Lane - and am trying to find the best position for them. At the back of one of our flower beds we have a 2.5ft ornamental wall beyond which is a paved area. If I were to plant one at each end of the back of this bed, would they "trail/ramble" along the wall or do I need to find somewhere where they can climb more vertically Would appreciate any advice Jeanne Hi Jeanne, The last thing you should let them do is climb vertically. If you do, all the flowers will be at the top; you will just see bare stems. They will produce so much more flower if you train them horizontally on wires. They will also be easier to dehead and prune. If you really want a vertical flower display, it would be better to train each of them on an obelisk, winding them around the structure so that, once again, they are more horizontal than vertical. The horizontal training (or winding) encourages the rose to produce more flowers. I have a rose by my front gate which is wound around an obelisk-like structure. It is always admired in the summer when smothered with flowers, and admired again in winter for the way its bare branches spiral around the tower. Incidentally, the rose I have trained in this way is the Japanese ground-cover rose Rosa 'Nozomi'. The proprietor of my local GC refuses to sell this rose because of its single season blooming. However, not having seen R.'Nozomi' trained as a climber before, he stopped in his tracks, "wowed" all over it and asked what it was. It hasn't changed his commercial policy, but I think it changed his private one! Some of the ground cover roses make great small pillar roses. Spider |
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