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Climbing roses are one of the gardeners’ favorite types of roses. They add grace and nostalgia and tenderness to any home garden. Climbing roses are often vigorous plants that will reach varying heights depending on the cultivar. All climbing rose species have stiff, arching stems, usually with dense, glossy leaves divided into small leaflets. The frequently scented roses flowers are borne in summer, some in one exuberant flush, other having a lesser repeat flowering. Climbing roses can be trained against walls or fences as decorative features in their own right, planted as a complement to other climbers, such as clematis or allowed to scramble up into other wall-trained shrubs or even old trees. They are invaluable for disguising unsightly garden buildings, or as a backdrop to a summer border.

Some of the climbing rose species are: Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’, Rosa Compassion, Rosa Dublin Bay ‘Macdub’, Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’, Rosa ‘Gloire de Dijon’, Rosa Golden Showers, Rosa Handel ‘Macha’, Rosa ‘Maigold’, Rosa ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’, Rosa ‘New Dawn’, Rosa ‘Madame Gregoire Staechelin’, Rosa ‘Zephirine Drouhin’.

How to grow climbing roses

Climbing roses feel excellent in moist but well-drained fairly fertile soil, in sun. Deadhead unless hips are wanted. As plants mature, prune back to within the allowed area, after flowering. Occasionally cut an old main stem back to the base to renew growth. Never prune in the first two years.