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Rose Arch
Is it possible to train a climbing rose (New Dawn specifically) into a free standing arch ? Much like an apple arch/tunnel? Perhaps a better question would be how old can a rose cane get before it stops producing flowering buds? If you trained a main frame (eg an arch), could you keep deadheading/cutting back to the old frame? Or would it stop flowering? Hope this makes sense to someone on here
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Where I grew up as a child we had a New Dawn trained over a rustic arch. By the time we moved the arch had almost disintegrated and it was more a case of the rose holding it up than vice versa
Sounds exactly like i imagined. wood doesnt last forever and those cheap metal tube arches are worthless, hence the idea of a self supporting arch. thanks for the push buttercup (i keep toying with the idea but then get put off incase ... xyz. Heres hoping !!)
Sounds lovely - I've got a New Dawn on a fence.
No reason why you can't train it over an arch - you'll need 1 either side. Just a matter of keeping on top of the pruning a couple of times a year.
A wide-ish arch is a good idea with roses if possible, to keep away from the prickles
Billericay - Essex
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Initially i would put up a wooden arch way to train it to but eventually the Wood will rot away, im hoping that the rose would, by then, support it self and be free standing
I done exactly that with a star jasmine.
It works fine, but there are bits of the old frame entangled here and there.
Billericay - Essex
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thanks pete
time to get planting
Go for it! It'll look cracking - just keep on top of the pruning.
I can see it already -
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
One can dream
Don't want to be a pessimist ... but I don't think a climbing rose will ever be self-supporting enough to form an arch without support ... however, you may prove me wrong
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This may be of help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkyqAJKEA8w
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.