Climbing Roses

Climbing roses are a really useful feature in any garden, they scramble up fences, over sheds, against trellis on walls, their value as a screen to hide or distract from a not so pleasant feature in your garden is priceless. And yet, for a few pounds you will have made a very wise investment, not only will you have purchased a thing of beauty, you will have added another dimension to the garden. When we design our gardens, we tend to concentrate ...
...There are lots of climbing plants you can buy; in fact the variety is quite confusing. If you choose a climbing Rose, you can select from a bewildering array of colours, from pure white through to soft pink, yellows and apricots to vibrant reds! As an added bonus many are very fragrant too. Climbers and Ramblers are often thought of as the same thing but in fact climbers are more like other garden roses as their flowers are larger than those on ...

Lynda04 28.03.2001 · Read full review
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...choice for me - the CLIMBING ROSE, that most delightful of creations... The dave27 guide to climbing roses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Climbing roses come in two main varieties, the rambler and the climber. The ramblers have been common in Britain for a couple of hundred years and sport 'long pliable stems bearing huge trusses of small flowers. Growth is very vigorous and they can be a mass of colour in summer, but there is only one flush ...
...tall. Iceberg - a climbing floribunda which is another from the bargain bin and is only slightly fragrant, but more than makes up for its lack of scent with its vigour and glossy leaves. The flowers are wonderful and this rose will easily reach 10 foot very quickly. I have to keep this very well pruned to stop it from taking over my whole garden and it sits very well with a clematis. Rosa Filipes Kiftsgate - a rambler and a real giant. It is reputed ...

dave27 16.06.2001 · Read full review
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Roses have always played an important part in British gardening but in recent years I have noticed a shift from the formal, high maintenance beds of hybrid teas to a more relaxed cottage garden style using species roses. These vigorous, easy species have graced the rose walks and arches of the major British gardens and are now finding a place in small urban gardens. Given a pergola hybrids such as Rosa ‘Seagull’ and Rosa ‘Wedding ...
...My personal favourites are Rosa brunonii, Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ and Rosa multiflora. The first two are very vigorous Himalayan species capable of growing more than 10 metres across - just one ‘Kiftsgate’ rose covers the wall of my house. Both are particularly attractive in the early spring when the young shoots are tinged with copper hues – the foliage of R. filipes turns a glossy green while R. brunonii turns a most ...

arnica 14.10.2001 · Read full review
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Rambling Rector: The name in itself is intriguing and inviting and having seen photographs of this rose in Peter Beale's book, I just had to search for it. It certainly looked awe inspiring in the photographs with complete walls, arches and even river banks covered in lush creamy white clusters of small beautifully formed roses. Peter Beale's written description failed to deter me even though Rambling Rector was described as rampant and vigourous, ...
...wanted to cover in as speedy a time as possible. Armed with my limited information I went off to search garden centres and local nurseries, but to no avail - even rose specialists hadn't heard of this particular rose. This however, egged me on even further and I felt quite impressed with what I vainly considered to be my superior knowledge (only joking). In fact I actually came across this rose when I wasn't particularly looking for it. It was one ...

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