Where could you plant some climbing roses in your garden? I’m sure you’ve got an arbour, or archway or gate that would look lovely with roses climbing around it.
You know how beautiful roses are with their large scented flower heads that start at fine buds and slowly burst open to reveal all their silky petals, imagine them growing around your door. Roses are very romantic and to have them climbing up and flowering looks really special.
When you plant them you fan out the stems so that they are nearly on the ground – don’t force them over but gently tie them down. If they are close to horizontal they should put up more stems which will give you a much better display.
Don’t plant too close to walls though as you’ll find that the base of a wall is very dry and plants won’t do very well against it. You also don’t want to be watering your wall when you water your plants! A structure like a wooden trellis or arbour can give your plant support. Use soft ties to fix the climber in to the support.

If you don’t have a structure ready for them to climb up consider buying in some trellis. You can get attractive tub boxes with trellis fixed to them. This would allow you to move the plant around – although the tub would be heavy and as it grows it would get heavier!
If you have a shed or bin area you would like covering up then fragrant soft roses up a trellis would hide them beautifully. In summer you could have the scent of the roses blowing gently across your garden too – as roses are not just beautiful to look at but scented too.
Roses do need pruning to ensure they stay neat and flower well every year. This is the same as basic rose pruning. You prune climbing roses in late autumn or in winter – don’t do it whilst the flowers are in bloom.
A climbing rose should flower all summer long. By comparison a rambling rose will only flower once. Deadheading your rose will encourage it to flower more.
As well as not having flowers in bloom that you would be cutting off you will also be pruning when the leaves have fallen off making it easier to see exactly which stems go where and in theory making the pruning process easier.
Wear gloves and be careful with any thorns. You might want to put rose prunings in the green bin for the council to compost, although shredding them is quite effective.
When pruning as well as shaping the plant and cutting it back you need to look out for and remove any dead, damaged shoots, diseased areas or spindly growth that doesn’t look right.
Tie in new shoots and then prune back the side shoots that have flowered this year by up to two thirds of their original length. As the plant ages you will want to cut out more dead wood from the plant in particular any older sections. Thin out the plant so it’s not too crowded.
Feed roses in the spring with specially bought rose fertiliser.
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