Filling An Arbor With Roses
The arbor on our farm as the roses begin to grow in. In a few years they will completely fill it up. When I put my first climbing roses an an…
Growing Roses
Climbing Roses
Climbers turn a fence, an arbor, or a bare wall into something spectacular. Training, pruning, and choosing the right climbing roses — it's all easier than it looks.
How to remove climbing roses from a structure to repair it.
Have you ever had to remove climbing roses from a fence or arbor to repair the structure. Not sure what to do with the roses? In this video I…
Noisettes - America's Native Climbing Roses
Paul F. Zimmerman Originally published in The Rose Reporter - 1995 Followed by The Rose, the official publication of the American Rose Society.…
Pillaring A Climbing Rose
Parure d'Or a Delbard rose trained on a pillar. We love climbing roses. But, like many gardeners we've run out of fences, walls and arbors to…
Pruning Climbing Roses
Mme. Alfred Carriere at Mottisfont Abbey in England. You've pruned a few shrub roses and now you are ready to try your hand at pruning a…
Rejuvenating An Old Climbing Rose
The arbor to the left is the one I took the cold cane out of Most rose books somewhere in their section on pruning climbing roses talk about…
Taking Your Roses To New Heights - Into The Trees
The rambling rose Newport Fairy two stories up a tree and in full bloom. Most of you have likely read in a book or heard someone talk about…
The Art of Pruning: Sculpting Your Roses to Perfection
By Nina Summer Roses enhance gardens with their color and fragrance, but with such a great choice of varieties, each with their own qualities,…
Training Climbing Roses On A Trellis
Train the canes of climbing roses as horizontal as possible to get a wall of flowers effect. I know this has happened to you. You buy a climbing…
Training Long Shrub Roses on a Low Wire
While leading my Rose Garden Tour in France in 2023, I came across this neat way of training shrub roses with long canes at Roseraie du…
Training The Direction of New Canes On A Climbing Rose.
We all love when new canes emerge from the base of any rose and particularly old climbing roses. But what do you do when the canes are growing…