CLIMBING ROSES
Climbing roses are distinct from most ramblers. In that they tend to have larger blooms, the ability to repeat flower and have stouter growth. Their use in the garden for adding height is unsurpassed coming in a variety of colours and sizes. The stronger growing varieties are often seen covering walls, fences, arches and pergolas, whilst shorter varieties can be trained around poles and tripods to form ‘pillars’. Our collection includes many of the older Noisette, Tea, Hybrid Tea, Boursaults and Bourbons and also a good range of more modern varieties, many are highly fragrant which is always a bonus.
A good short variety is pink Zepherine Drouhin; a recurrent favourite often seen as a scented focal point. Medium varieties are more versatile, the prime example Etoile de Hollande can have many uses. Whilst a good tall variety is Cecile Brunner Climber often seen trained around door entrances.
All climbers require support and it is essential they are well tied to their structures. They are best trained horizontally at first to prevent any legginess and encourage a spreading habit.
Pruning Guide – Once established they are pruned by reducing side shoots to two or three buds of the main stem and tying in any new long growths in a horizontal fashion during September.
Most Fragrant Climbers → Climbers for North Facing Walls → Rambling Roses →
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Warm Welcome is a stunning miniature climbing rose which has a vibrant display of small but vivid orange semi-double blooms, often borne in small clusters. It has good repeatability – flowering from summer right through to the first frost – with beautifully contrasting dark foliage and stems. Size 230cm x 150cm.
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Out of stocka.k.a Spanish Beauty. Large pale pink blooms with deeper veining. Very prolific in bloom. Delicious fragrance. Flowers early summer. Hips in autumn. Vigorous. Size:4.5m x 3.6m. ( Mme Gregoire Staechelin )
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Out of stocka.k.a Spectacular. A modern climbing rose bearing dazzling blooms of bright red. Good on a red brick wall. Good dark glossy foliage. Repeat flowering. Size:3.6m x 2.4m.
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Out of stockBears clusters of beautiful pink Hybrid Tea shaped miniature blooms. Good buttonhole rose. An excellent choice where space permits. Repeat flowering. Size 7.5m x 6m. ( Cecile Brunner Clg.)
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Out of stockA Tea-Noisette rose. Full quartered blooms of yellow orange and buff borne in clusters. Very vigorous. Highly fragrant. Recurrent flowering Size:6m x 3m.
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Out of stockThis cerise pink double resembles a Camellia with its overlapping petals and cupped formation. The glossy dark green foliage is generally healthy. Repeat flowering. Size:3.5m x 2.5m.