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Help me turn this into something less ugly
Paul165
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Problem
As you can see, previous owner planted a nice rose plant which is now in Bloom. However, it juts out of the alongside an unpainted fence and sticks out in a rather unsightly manner.
How would you resolve this? There are some wires on the fence nearer to the house, which could maybe be used?
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Have a look here - this is the clearest explanation of what to do that I've come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-o_FHPoEU
You can use a wooden trellis or a wire one on battens, or fix strong wires to the wall, but the principle's the same, train the rose so that you get the canes as near to horizontal as possible, and it'll cover itself with blooms.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.