I think you're confusing me with Busy Lizzie Dove. My climbers and ramblers are all in the ground. I do have roses in pots but not climbers. Mine are either new ones I'm nurturing or else old ones I've had to rescue from the hurly burly of life in my very exposed borders. All doing very well for now.
I agree with others that these roses need to be potted on so they can grow roots strong enough to support the top growth and make more. Professional rose growers put theirs in tall, square pots about 30cm high and 12 to 5cm wide to grow on for sale so try something that size to start with. Some roses just have a climbing gene. I, on teh other hand, have a climber which is determined to be a shrub rose.
I think the best thing would be to give it a framework of trellis or an obelisk and try to bend the stem gently down to make it lie as horizontally as possible and then tie in all the new growth to keep the main stem attached and wound round or across the chosen support. I gave this advice to a friend of mine who has planted a rambler with an obelisk this spring and it is now sending up all sorts of short vertical shoots with flower buds on them while the leader gets longer and is tied in continually so the technique does work.
If such a support is not possible, cut the lead stem back to just above a pair of leaves lower down and see if that makes it produce side shoots. I would cut it above the 4th or 5th pair of leaves and at an angle so rain water can drip off and not sit and rot the end.
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Hi peeps - I have now got a large arched trellis fixed to the coal shed wall to hide the ugly checker plate behind it, Steve has made a large trough using some unwanted batons ( he is a builder ) and today I will be putting my 3 roses in. My question is, should I leave the roses in their pots and plant the pots into the trough ( the roots should come out of the pot in search for nutrients I guess ) or remove the pots and put them straight in. I ask because they might not like it there and it would be less stressful if I have to move them, if I can just lift the pots thus keeping the main roots intact. I feel like a mother about to send her kids to school for the first time. Thanks in advance for any advice xx
Thanks so much to everyone who has offered advice - much appreciated and taken. I have given them a good watering and am ready to put into the trough. My late mam would be chuffed to bits to know her precious roses are living on in the form of cuttings
Oops I got that back to front, I have them a good drink first then planted them out....Just hope they are ok. I feel like a mother sending her kids to school for the first time ha ha.....If they dont thrive I can always move them back into single containers. I have grown plants from cuttings, all kinds of things and had a lot of success but these 3 little roses are just so precious.
Have been out to see them and there a few greenfly which i squashed but there is also on a stem something that looks like spit, like a white foam....I guess its some creatures eggs but what? Should I leave them in case they are greenfly enemies or shall I get a cotton buds and wipe them off - they may be more bad guys....
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I wonder if Obelixx has seen this post - she's really good at climbing roses in containers ...
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I think you're confusing me with Busy Lizzie Dove. My climbers and ramblers are all in the ground. I do have roses in pots but not climbers. Mine are either new ones I'm nurturing or else old ones I've had to rescue from the hurly burly of life in my very exposed borders. All doing very well for now.
I agree with others that these roses need to be potted on so they can grow roots strong enough to support the top growth and make more. Professional rose growers put theirs in tall, square pots about 30cm high and 12 to 5cm wide to grow on for sale so try something that size to start with. Some roses just have a climbing gene. I, on teh other hand, have a climber which is determined to be a shrub rose.
I think the best thing would be to give it a framework of trellis or an obelisk and try to bend the stem gently down to make it lie as horizontally as possible and then tie in all the new growth to keep the main stem attached and wound round or across the chosen support. I gave this advice to a friend of mine who has planted a rambler with an obelisk this spring and it is now sending up all sorts of short vertical shoots with flower buds on them while the leader gets longer and is tied in continually so the technique does work.
If such a support is not possible, cut the lead stem back to just above a pair of leaves lower down and see if that makes it produce side shoots. I would cut it above the 4th or 5th pair of leaves and at an angle so rain water can drip off and not sit and rot the end.
Oh dear - obviously a senior moment
sorry! But you do know your roses and Busy Lizzie's away 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No probs. I have those too.
Hi peeps - I have now got a large arched trellis fixed to the coal shed wall to hide the ugly checker plate behind it, Steve has made a large trough using some unwanted batons ( he is a builder ) and today I will be putting my 3 roses in. My question is, should I leave the roses in their pots and plant the pots into the trough ( the roots should come out of the pot in search for nutrients I guess ) or remove the pots and put them straight in. I ask because they might not like it there and it would be less stressful if I have to move them, if I can just lift the pots thus keeping the main roots intact. I feel like a mother about to send her kids to school for the first time. Thanks in advance for any advice xx
Thanks so much to everyone who has offered advice - much appreciated and taken. I have given them a good watering and am ready to put into the trough. My late mam would be chuffed to bits to know her precious roses are living on in the form of cuttings
Oops I got that back to front, I have them a good drink first then planted them out....Just hope they are ok. I feel like a mother sending her kids to school for the first time ha ha.....If they dont thrive I can always move them back into single containers. I have grown plants from cuttings, all kinds of things and had a lot of success but these 3 little roses are just so precious.
That's lovely - let us know how they get on
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have been out to see them and there a few greenfly which i squashed but there is also on a stem something that looks like spit, like a white foam....I guess its some creatures eggs but what? Should I leave them in case they are greenfly enemies or shall I get a cotton buds and wipe them off - they may be more bad guys....
Cheers Edd - will use a cotton bud, if I jet it, the whole thing might snap as its quite soft.