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greenman44
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Can anyone please help me with this decision? We have recently had a new 6ft fence put in along our gravel drive. There are 7 panels (6ft x 6ft), with every other one having a space to plant a climber (5), one of these already has our old Clematis montana in, that we cut right back for the fencing to go in and will hopefully recover. The top part of the fence has trellis on. The fence is East facing, facing our house, but with about 20ft dividing space between house and fence. Behind the fence is a ugly agricultural yard and our neighbour has access across part of the drive so we do have to stop any climbers from encroaching too much over the driveway. It can be a bit of a wind tunnel and is in the shade for the morning. Our soil is very sandy. We're East Midlands/North area and pretty rural. I would like to grow climbing/rambling rose or two up the fence, with possibly some other climbers inter mingling. In an ideal world I would like the roses to be minimal on the thorns, strong scented and flowering most of summer, thinking Clare Austen;Generous Gardener; Shropshire Lad;Teasing Georgia;Zephirine Drouhin. It would be great to grow other climbers to mingle and create a year round flowering or visual delight to brighten up and give a better view. Any help and suggestions much appreciated. Holmoak
Can anyone please help me with this decision? We have recently had a new 6ft fence put in along our gravel drive. There are 7 panels (6ft x 6ft), with every other one having a space to plant a climber (5), one of these already has our old Clematis montana in, that we cut right back for the fencing to go in and will hopefully recover. The top part of the fence has trellis on. The fence is East facing, facing our house, but with about 20ft dividing space between house and fence. Behind the fence is a ugly agricultural yard and our neighbour has access across part of the drive so we do have to stop any climbers from encroaching too much over the driveway. It can be a bit of a wind tunnel and is in the shade for the morning. Our soil is very sandy. We're East Midlands/North area and pretty rural. I would like to grow climbing/rambling rose or two up the fence, with possibly some other climbers inter mingling. In an ideal world I would like the roses to be minimal on the thorns, strong scented and flowering most of summer, thinking Clare Austen;Generous Gardener; Shropshire Lad;Teasing Georgia;Zephirine Drouhin. It would be great to grow other climbers to mingle and create a year round flowering or visual delight to brighten up and give a better view. Any help and suggestions much appreciated. Holmoak
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For winter flowering I have a few shrubs and other things of interest, but my climbing roses are obviously May to November... If interested, I can tell you about some of the roses you mention and maybe later show you some others of mine with photos... some of the rebloom is sparse, or sporadic on some of those you mention..
For your fence panels, might I suggest you also look at the larger shrub roses, instead of climbing roses, they will probably be more suitable, and not so rampant...I can show you photos later if you are interested.. I also have some low thorn roses..
You will have to watch your clematis montana as it can swamp everything else..
'Zephirine Drouhin'.. rambling along...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just going over your rose choices, they are all fine roses, but if you want low thorn I would leave out 'Teasing Georgia' because it has some pretty big nasty ones, and think about replacing it with 'Bathsheba', which is a large growing wiry rambling or climbing type, with few thorns... nice scent, sometimes I think the smell is like freshly mown grass...
As for your house wall, there are some considerations.. the colour of the wall [I wouldn't want to put white on white personally, or red against red brick]… support for the rose in place with wires etc.. and how big and wide do you want it.. West facing is not a problem. Also scent isn't so important on a house wall because you're not likely to be sniffing it up there too much, unless it's right against windows... so I don't worry about that..
You best choose from a reputable supplier whichever colour you want, but if it's white, then you could do worse than 'Climbing Iceberg'... which also has few thorns..
A couple blooms of 'Bathsheba'..