Recommend me a rose for an arch please.

Good evening Charliebot warm welcome is a miniature climber

Just a couple that spring to mind

Ghislaine De Feligonde


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It would be very rare if it was,IMHO I would say no

 

Good afternoon Mondo have to say that I don't totally agree with you on the above quote my friend but its good to hear from you ,your posts are always interesting, informative and friendly enjoy your day in Glasgow and stay safe

 

While I think there are some grounds for your advice, Mondo, it is possibly too pessimistic. I think that a Gardener who buys only modern roses is missing out on a great number of well established old roses that have stood the test of time which are still loved. revered. and sold by many commercial rose growers. Yes, modern roses are less prone to diseases but in a warm humid year they too can suffer, so there is no complete answer.
I have a mixture of 22 old and modern shrub and climber roses and have found that this year has been a problem for not just the old roses but for the modern "disease resistant" roses as well, despite my early and continued spraying of fungicide. So while modern roses may be more "disease resistant" they are not totally so. As Gardeners we know that our garden is never perfect, that some disease or pest is damaging some plant or other, [normally the plant we treasure] but we use whatever resources we have to defeat them as normal Gardeners do............and when we do it's.............
To be honest I've never bought a rose, shrub or climber, by it's marketed reputation, {either of the Rose or the Grower]. Over the years when I've known I wanted a rose, or roses, for a certain location or purpose with the garden I've done a bit of research on a likely rose as most people do. But I like a rose to have several qualities [a] Scent, repeat flowering [c] and obviously the shape and colour of the flower, and I will always try to see as many roses of the type I'm looking for in flower as I can before choosing.
But being Human and fallible I will see a rose and fall in love with it and know "it's the One" before I even know what it is or whether it's an "old" rose or a "modern" one!!, so my research and pre-decided ideas go out of the window So the fact that it might be an "old" rose less disease resistant doesn't bother me as I will do my best to ensure it's healthy and flowering well over the following years. I don't always succeed as we all have bad years and good years [me and the plants!] but isn't that what gardening is about??....striving to get your paradise garden with, as always, a mixture of success and failure
My point being that, yes, we would like to make things easier for ourselves as Gardeners but real gardening is one of success and failure. So by just recommending only buying "Modern" roses on the basis that they are more "disease resistant" is denying new and Gardeners of the beauty and strengths of the many "Old", established, time proven magnificent roses out there. After that, you and your love of roses will sort out the gardening problems!!

 

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I buy Roses because I just love them

Mondo just as long as people keep buying Roses the reason is unimportant and they have still got freedom of choice my friend

Good afternoon Armandll my friend we will have to excuse our friend Mondo,I think he is the Billy Graham of the Rose world with his modern Rose Gospel

 

Hi Woo, well I don't disagree completely with Mondo's assessment of Modern roses being bred for increased disease resistance and possibly more trouble free. I do, however, disagree with advising gardeners to only buy Modern roses and ignore the Old roses, which is literally writing them off. We know that there are such a variety of choice, gorgeously scented and flowering "Old" roses that deserve their reputation of being much loved and revered and will in fact be even more beautiful than their modern siblings. It would be shame if a new Gardener, when on getting advice on buying roses was told to ignore the Old roses because they were too much trouble, disease ridden, when in fact they wouldn't have survived so long in gardens and being sold by commercial growers if that were true and they missed the world of some of the greatest roses they could ever see or buy.
I would also have problems accepting a " rose purist" view of not buying Modern roses for whatever reason expressed. Modern or Old??? I hope Gardeners will look at all roses and let their hearts decide.