@Nollie … I don't think you need to, it should very soon reach that height... I planted a new one this winter and it's already 3 foot tall.. I've got some metal trellis to tie it to..
Having read @Marlorena ‘s comment about some rose buds looking like little ladies wearing hats with tall feathers I started paying attention and what do you know - they do look just like that 😄
Now I get to enjoy them twice - once as a bud and then as actual flower thank you Marlorena 😊
@Fire, I have Climbing Etoile du Hollande and it is a very beautiful rose, really darkish red, with a lovely perfume. It took a while to get going and I was disappointed at first because although the blooms were big, they seemed too heavy for their stems and just drooped downwards. I then put some plastic small holed netting behind it on the wall and very carefully tied the actual bloom head to the netting to give it more support. As Marlorena says, it has taken 3 years for the stems to become strong enough to support the rose. I think it would have looked good this year but alas I had to cut it right back to 2 ft in readiness for a new fence (which I'm still waiting for!). I love it for it's shape which is more of a classic HT rose than a multi-petalled DA one. The perfume's to die for.
Does anyone have any idea what it may be as it was in the garden when I moved in. Last spring I cut it to the ground and then spent some time training the regrown canes horizontally.
It has rather vicious thorns but seems to the healthiest rose I have.
Thanks @Lizzie27 - I might well go for it an EdH. My Ena is starting to lift her head now - after five years or so. Very much it's best year this year.
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Now I get to enjoy them twice - once as a bud and then as actual flower
thank you Marlorena 😊
I like the poem too.
Does anyone have any idea what it may be as it was in the garden when I moved in. Last spring I cut it to the ground and then spent some time training the regrown canes horizontally.
It has rather vicious thorns but seems to the healthiest rose I have.