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Evergreen scented climbing/rambling rose
Hi,
We have a 10-12 foot fence with trellis which overlooks a maintenance yard - not the nicest sight... and want to block the view with something nice to look at and smell!
We would love to have a climbing/rambling rose which is evergreen, vigorous, preferably strongly scented and disease free to grow up the fence/trellis. Maybe asking for too much though...! Have searched on a few sites without much joy.
Any ideas would be gratefully welcomed!
Thanks in advance
Matt
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Sorry should have said that situation is north west facing although gets quite a lot of sun in the morning and early-mid afternoon.
Thanks
Very few rambling roses repeat flower but Malvern Hills form David Asutin is one. However as Pansy says, roses lose their leaves in all but the mildest winters so you need to combine it with another evergreen climber.
Clematis armandii would be good as long as you don't have heavy frosts in spring when it is in flower There are two honeysuckles which are evergreen. One flowers in spring and the other in summer.
Lonicera japonica 'Halliana' AGM: An evergreen or semi-evergreen, vigorous climber with dark green leaves and white fragrant flowers from spring to summer. Height: 10m (33ft).
L. henryi: This is an evergreen, vigorous honeysuckle with purplish-red flowers between early and mid-summer, followed by purple-black berries. Height: 10m (33ft).
You will need to install tensioned training wires at 12 to 18 inch intervals up your fence in order to be able to train the stems as horizontally as possible to get maximum coverage and flowers. Roses and clematis are both hungry, thirsty plants so be sure to add plenty of well rotted manure and garden compost to the soil before planting and give them a good watering and mulch after planting.
I grow alberic barbier (spelling wrong, but close enough), it evergreen apart from the coldest winters, but as the other guys have said, you would have to grow something else with it as it dosent repeat flower and has no scent!
I have read that rose "bobby james" is very highly scented, you could always grow them together????
I also grow the climbers mentioned above, they are all gorgeous you really couldnt go wrong with them
Great, thanks guys for your advice. Much appreciated. Will get down to the garden centre...
Bobbie James is a lovely rose and does have a great fragrance, but it is a rampant monster of a plant, growing 30ft plus in all directions - much much too big for the site in question.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The climbing rose 'Surpassing Beauty' http://www.classicroses.co.uk/products/roses/surpassing-beauty/ is worth considering - it's a lovely rose, repeat flfowering and highly scented.
It's not evergreen, but roses aren't evergreen.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No Bekkie - it's wonderful but it needs to be given it's head and grown into a tree or up and over a huge wall or bank, it throws up lots of long canes from the base, wonderful if you've got a big space for it to cover but unless you've got the same sort of space as a National Trust garden I wouldn't consider it. And it only flowers the once, so it takes up a huge space for a once in a year performance (although the hips are lovely too).
Have a look at this one http://www.classicroses.co.uk/products/roses/francis-elester/ it's lovely, and in my experience not quite as pink as the picture.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.