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Tea rose climber or not ?!

thomasevans66eva31864thomasevans66eva31864 Posts: 3
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Hi guys

I have a tea rose that twice i have butcherd it to the ground because i was thinking the season before i didnt cut enough. Here is it now! After only 8 weeks of being cut just just a few inches of the ground! This is what i always end up with just being far too long so it bends over . I am thinking maybe this is actually a climber !? 
Any ideas ,?

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It's behaving like a climber. There are climbing versions of tea roses eg Ena Harkness.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Do you know what it is?
  • thomasevans66eva31864thomasevans66eva31864 Posts: 3
    Tea rose 🤷

    But it always goes wild and collapses. Early summer it was over 10 foot long untill I cut it right down again 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    No name?
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited September 2023
    If it did ten feet it is not a Hybrid tea rose. Unless it suckered from the base, but the leaves would be a different shape (I think?).

    Show some close ups of the base and also a head on shot close of the flowers.
    Someone may be able to ID it if you don't know.
    The colour is also a little hard to tell sorry for being rude about your image.

    Is it creamy, creamy pink or creamy apricot?
    It reminds me of Woolerton old Hall, that one goes all octopus.
    :D

    Whatever it is, it does look very healthy!
  • thomasevans66eva31864thomasevans66eva31864 Posts: 3
    Sorry for the delay

    More pic below hoping to figure this one out it just grows crazy!! I'm thinking this must he a climber !?
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ..this is a Floribunda rose, I think it's 'Champagne Moment'..

    It's reaching for the light, because it's blocked from the left with houses and fencing, and from the other side by some variegated bush or small tree.. so it's leaning outwards.. it's not a climber..

    'Champagne Moment'.. a shrubby floribunda, capable of some 6 feet or so..

    East Anglia, England
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Your latest photos are much better, show it isn't a tea rose, it's a floribunda. Some of my roses do that because of shade behind them, as Marlorena says. Chap at Peter Beales Classic Roses said to prune them harder at the end of winter.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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