Beautiful Climbing Rose Bushes

Add a climbing rose to your rose garden collection. The climbing rose is not really a vine and is also referred to as a rambler, trailing rose and everblooming rose. Keep in mind when rose planting, that they do not naturally grow in a vine-like method. They look beautiful creeping over an arbor or entryway to a garden. With just a little help the climbing rose can be minipulated to grow over a fence, arbor or gazebo.

The grower can loosely attach the plant to a structure or wind it through the structure. With a little imagination, you can create a beautiful effect on a garden wall, fence, over a gate or almost anywhere you decide. Climbing rose trees that are trained to grow laterally rather then vertically often produce more blooms.

Vertically trained climbing roses will produce short spurs along their main stem or canes which will produce blooms. The climbing rose will need that same type of care as other roses in your garden. Climbing roses need about six to seven hours of direct unfiltered sunlight a day. Despite the fact you may have been led to believe they can grow in the shade.

When planning to grow climbing roses in your garden, take into consideration the height or length that these types of roses will grow to. Some species of climbing roses can grow to be around thirty feet in height. A few varieties have grown just to seven feet tall. Pick a structure to attach your rose to that is strong enough for it.

The rate at which your rose will grow is dependant upon the type of weather in your vicinity. Your rose choice is another variable when it comes to how it will produce. Some types of climbing roses will produce beautiful roses all year round. Then there are those that may only produce flowers in the spring.

One big difference between climbing roses and other types of rose plants is that they require very little pruning. Most importantly, the climbing rose should not be pruned during the first two years. If climbing roses are pruned every year like other rose plants, the opposite will happen to the climbers; they will produce fewer blooms.

When caring for your roses, you can get away with pruning their climbing roses every three or four years. Take care to cut back mainly at the base of the plant just the branches that don't seem to be thriving. By doing so you should see a spurt in new branches and blossoms. The new, more supple branches are more flexible and can be coaxed in and out of the fence or structure you are affixing the climber to.

You have to give your rose some time to become the arbor or vine you are looking for. This type of rose takes some time to get rooted and grounded before you begin to see an abundance of blossoms. But, when they do become established, the fragrance and the beauty of their colors are well worth the wait.