Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and today I want to talk about some of
your choices for climbing roses i just came across some extra space myself here along
these posts for climbing roses i have to choose so let's jump in together and have a look at some
of the pictures and descriptions of some of the most popular and sought after of climbing roses
one of the most widely grown of the modern climbers is this one behind me here called
'New Dawn' is a delicate pink reblooming rose beautiful nicely scented and even going into
October now still has a few lingering blooms on here so it is truly a repeat bloomer it grows in
that range of 10 even up to 20 feet if you if you train it along so it can be a larger climber you'd
want to give it some space the second rose i'm going to highlight today is called 'Don Juan' and
like 'New Dawn' it has been in the trade for decades and the secret to its lasting power
is the scent just a strong Damask old garden rose scent and of course it's formed like a florist
rose as well it's not immune to black spot it's not the perfect rose for for health of foliage
but has lasting power in the garden because of its wonderful qualities on the other side of that
archway i have 'Eden' or 'Pierre de Ronsard' which is by the way the most requested of all of my
climbing roses right now and i want to show you why and hopefully i can keep this in focus as i
bring it up closer to the camera hope that works but wow those pink edges on the cream rose
moderately scented re-blooming and that romantic fully petaled shape just gorgeous so people are
a sucker for this and for good reason i'm going to list off a few now that i can't show you in
my garden because they're not in bloom right now but they have such exceptional qualities that i
have no problem talking about them and then just inserting the pictures first up is 'Laguna' which
has a strong pink color but i'm not sure that describes the color fully i almost detect a hint
of coral in there beautiful rose exceptionally healthy foliage and they call it a smallish
climber like eight to ten feet but i've seen it grow a little bit larger in some public gardens
also i want to list off 'Westerland' one of my favorite roses of all time it's a strong orange
stiff canes grows tall you can stay you can grow it freestanding or you can
train it more horizontally for more blooming great rose and strongly scented and very very healthy
along the lines of 'Westerland' i can also recommend another rose called 'Polka' which is in one of
my favorite color groups apricot and the apricot blooms on this one have another special feature
that i really love is the scalloped edges of the flowers just gorgeous sometimes nodding flowers
again nicely scented and just a good healthy rose and also i want to give a good mention
to 'Rosarium Uetersen' which is a silvery pink if you can imagine that color
really again strong performer in the garden disease resistant strongly scented smells like
green apples and just a wonderful performer here i use it in several places i want to mention a rose
now that i featured on my instagram this year it's called 'Roberta Bondar' after the Canadian astronaut
i don't know how widely distributed this rose is but it absolutely should be just a gorgeous
yellow color i believe it's the offspring of the rose i'll be mentioning later on the list
'Buff Beauty' but just gorgeous and a wonderful performer with large yellow flowers now going
from something that might not be well available to a couple that i know for sure will be widely
available this coming year they are both Kordes roses from their breeding program
and they've done some wonderful things with climbers first one i want to mention is
'Kiss Me Kate' and the second one i want to mention is 'Florentina' i'll be carrying both of these this
coming year because they impressed me so much with their vibrant colors their wonderful scent
and also because they were bred to have thin pliable canes that you can more easily train
horizontally and as i'll mention later that's an important feature for roses if you want to get
the best of the blooms from them three standbys from my garden that i just love first one is
'Souvenir du Docteur Jamain' this is a hybrid perpetual rose with just the deepest velvety purple roses
blooms that have a wonderful scent it does take a little extra care and attention the garden loves
to be well fed even likes a slightly shadier spot for the afternoon to be sheltered from the hot sun
but well worth the effort i will say on the opposite end of the spectrum 'Sally Holmes'
is easy to grow super easy you almost can't stop it you can grow it as a large shrub or
you can train it up as a climber has wide open flowers indicative of its hybrid musk heritage
has a nice scent coming from the stamens i believe rather than the petals so it's a it's a
strong musky scent and uh love 'Sally Holmes' very adaptable tough and beautiful and finally this
one right behind me here and i picked some blooms from you from it just to to show you because even
this late in the season 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' which I know I must be mispronouncing badly
but it has these clusters of apricot buds ripening out to buff colored flowers gorgeous it just shows
complexity and this one is good in the shade as well so like other hybrid musks it has a little
more tolerance for a shady location so if you have a tough spot in the garden this might be
an option for you okay i'll be good i know that people want some david austin recommendations
and although i haven't grown a lot of david austin climbers i'm planning on rectifying that this year
so i looked around in the catalogs and also took some recommendations and the two that i'm probably
going to try to add into my garden this year first one is 'Gertrude Jekyll' which is apparently
strongly strongly scented and and comes well recommended the second one i have my
eye on is called 'The Pilgrim' which follows my theme of liking stronger colors this one
more towards a strong yellow i think with darker centers so uh both of those will be added to my
collection this year and of course i'll be adding austin's upcoming as well my very favorite climber
bar none is 'Buff Beauty' that's this one behind me here it has no blooms on it today but as you can
see lots of strong growth what i love about buff beauty is it has darker buds lighter blooms goes
out to a buff color but just covers itself with these gorgeous perfectly formed blooms nicely
scented and does that repeatedly throughout the season it might be a matter of personal
taste but 'Buff Beauty' ticks all the boxes for me now before i finish up with my roundup of roses
everything that i've listed before this point have been repeat bloomers to one extent or another i
want to finish off the list with two once bloomers that might still be worth space in your garden the
first one is called albertine has a beautiful pink color i'll show some pictures here as well
but it has a beautiful rambling scrambling habit informal gorgeous just covers itself with blooms
and that's the one thing about the once bloomers is that when they bloom usually they bloom
intensely that's definitely the case for the second one i want to mention which is the lady
banks rose which has the distinction of having been grown into one of the largest roses in the
world in a couple of places so this one has tiny tiny little yellow flowers on it but
when it blooms on mass the effect is spectacular and i'll insert some pictures here of that as
well so you've stuck with me this long looking at the examples of roses i hope you'll stick with me
just a little bit longer here i have a couple important points to make about the climbers
first of all is that the climbers are not a specific breed of roses unlike the miniatures
or the flora bundas or the hybrid tees that can be divided into a group the climbers actually come
from all over the family tree of roses the reason for this is because the climbers are actually
defined by their usage they just happen to be members of the other classes of roses that can
throw long preferably pliable canes that you can train up things this is the next point i want to
make is that nothing within the rose family truly climbs like other plants climb so if you look
at wisteria or even climbing hydrangea they have parts of the plant that are meant to attach them
to things so they'll have tendrils or they'll have roots that will grab onto things that isn't
so with the roses the roses just have their canes they have some thorns and they'll throw those long
canes and left naturally oftentimes they'll just turn into a mounded shrub or bramble just like
you'd see in a blackberry patch it's generally the fact that humans intervene that gets them to climb
up something occasionally you'll see a very very strong uh growing plant that scrambles up a tree
but that isn't an average or a normal behavior for roses generally makes them into a bit of a rambler
so all of that said it turns out that the climbing roses need your intervention and the way that you
train them this time of year it's fall it isn't a great time for me to show you that training
but i've made a couple of videos on that one of them is more the general theory and the other one
is an example of that i'm going to put both of those in turn up on the screen here so you can
link through to them to get that information this is a great time to plant your roses by the way
just not a great in my climate just not a great time to be pruning now in terms of that pruning
i just want to go through the general options here because of course you can train them and tie
them up to a structure and the idea is if you tie them to a structure you want to train them to be
to go upwards but then sideways horizontal it's the horizontal stems within a climbing rose that
usually are the most productive and give you the most flowers a second way you can handle climbing
roses is to have them as a freestanding shrub but then just pin them down pin down their stems it's
a term called pegging you can pin them down to a low structure or you can pin them right down
to the ground and by taking that that pliable stem and then putting an arch into it you're creating
some more of that horizontal wood which will bloom more strongly and then of course a third way you
can do it is like sally holmes or westerlund there are some climbers that even though they're
called climbers or can be used as climbers that you can also use them as a freestanding shrub
and it's something i've experimented with a lot on the farm here i do that with sally holmes i
do that with westerland i do that was just named feligond so certainly it's something worth trying
if you don't have a way that you can pin them down within your yard or don't have the
horizontal space to offer that you can just grow them kind of freestanding and see how
they do all right that's all i had to say about climbers today i hope you enjoyed the video
if you have any questions about these i'm sure i've left a ton off the list as well
drop those into the comments below the video and i'll see what i can do to help