It’s Soul by Tantau @Omori, strictly speaking a shrub rose but seems eminently trainable as a short climber. It was planted in Spring and put all it’s energies into growing rather than blooming much. I’m hoping it will bloom better next year 🤞
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Many thanks for the responses @Fire and @Nollie. I was aware of the ‘fountainous’ training regime but I’ve been approaching the issue in a slightly lumpen fashion, assuming that all roses have bare canes at their base and that this void would increase proportionately depending on the chosen cultivar regardless of what one did.
This is partially a reflection of the number of inordinately leggy shrub roses in the gardens in the vicinity - neighbours clearly need to sharpen their pruning technique!
What I hadn’t factored in was the influence of pruning - more than a slight oversight with roses. Keeping a couple of short canes as a ‘float’ is a helpful idea, thanks Nollie.
That contemporary rose arch is about £450 I think. Gorgeous and the only example I can find, but I can‘t justify the cost right now sadly as it isn’t even my garden. One day.
Here’s a case in point while we’re at it. The shrub rose to the left has only ever been pruned at its tips and now that I’ve taken on the area it needs addressing. It looks even leggier in real life than this. It’s many years old. How would I resuscitate this for fuller, lower blooms? Prune some/all of the stems right back to about a foot high come spring and see how it fares? I’m not fussed if it doesn’t survive the chop – I can replace the plant and the soil and it’s all a good learning curve...
Thanks again for all your help; it is much appreciated.
PS That pic was taken earlier this year. Now the rose is looking better with some companions, but I’d still love to encourage it offer a few blooms lower down...
I would chop it all right back to about a foot or so, roughly knee height, late this winter, and it should rejuvenate it. You will want to do this annually to keep it looking good. You'll still get bare legs toward the bottom but that is to be expected with this type of rose (Hybrid Tea). It has a lovely colour, I imagine it is quite fragrant?
I agree, be brutal with your lovely red HT and shock it into recovery. Just don’t take that approach with your climber! For that, the lower you set the first tension wire the lower you will have blooms - 45 seems to be the magic number - plant 45cm from the wall, set your first tension wire at that height and then space the rest above at that distance and fan away.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Brilliant, thanks v much @Omori and @Nollie, that’s what I’ll do with the HT. I have been told it has a glorious bouquet Omari, but being a disgraceful smoker I barely sense it sadly. I’ll follow those handy dimensions as closely as feasible for the impending climber, thanks Nollie.
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This is partially a reflection of the number of inordinately leggy shrub roses in the gardens in the vicinity - neighbours clearly need to sharpen their pruning technique!
What I hadn’t factored in was the influence of pruning - more than a slight oversight with roses. Keeping a couple of short canes as a ‘float’ is a helpful idea, thanks Nollie.
That contemporary rose arch is about £450 I think. Gorgeous and the only example I can find, but I can‘t justify the cost right now sadly as it isn’t even my garden. One day.