Climbing Rose

In my garden I have a telegraph pole that I have surrounded with 6/7ft stakes and wired together, is there any chance I can grow a small climbing rose (if one exists) up this please. If so what would you suggest.

 

how many hrs full sun does that pole get per day?

 

Hi Sheal
there are a number of small climbers around.
It's too wet to go out and read my labels, but I've made 2 attempts.
The first was a red and a white (sold as Spanish Flag - I think). The yellow one has scrambled up the trellis to 8ft+ with no problem. The red one is a disaster, only reaching about 1ft high)
The 2nd attempt was an apple tree. I wrapped Chicken wire around the trunk for anchorage and planted 3 different coulours around the base.
Last year they got up to about 7', flowering from about 1ft from the ground up to the 7' top.
The 2nd year they have got to about 10' so far with buds from 1' to the 10' top.
It must be worth giving it a go.

 

my feeling is that climbing roses need space (width) ... even on a trellis, they flower most on the top where they can spread

perhaps a clematis might be a better option? ... you could even plant 3 clematis together, to grow inbetween each other

choose ones that bloom at different times of the year ... a rose may struggle

 

Very pretty Sheal!! There's some shorter climbing roses from David Austin you might like. Here's the link.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/Advanced.asp?PageId=1894

 

Flowers on roses normally grow on the horizontal branches which is why they look best when they spread, I think you'd have to go either for a rose with a very small flower almost looking like a wild rose so the stems can wrap around the pole or go for something else. As others have said I think I'd opt for a clematis if you want colour or a honeysuckle if you're looking more for scent. Jasmine would also provide good cover and scent but you'd only have a fairly short flowering period.

 

The sun that it gets is divided. About 6 hours early in the day and about three later at this time of year. I've planted numerous clematis and they've died there including one that's 'on the blink' now.

Thanks for your help everyone and I'll have a look at the site that you've posted Catztail.

 

Thanks Armandii, I'll check that out too.

 

Hello Sheal. Belated birthday wishes, by the way!

As Catztail says, there are many roses which can be grown as 'short climbers' (really, they're naturally leggy bushes) and I'd say they're your best bet. David Austin has some very tempting ones. A few days back Hans posted some pictures of an old rose I'd forgotten about, called Mme Isaac Pereire. It can be grown as a bush or a short climber and can be trained to grow to roughly the height you want. Subtle it ain't. It's a huge, blowsy Victorian rose with masses of dark pink petals. The blooms smell wonderful. I think it would probably cope with the amount of sunlight you have to offer, particularly if it can climb a bit.

http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/Showrose.asp?Showr=551

 

Thanks for the Birthday wishes Clare.

I hadn't even thought about colour choice until I looked at the above rose. I prefer the more traditional type of roses and I think yellow or white is the way to go for the area it will be planted. Sorry Clare, I'm not a lover of pink roses.

I've had a look at Graham Thomas and that's a possibility. I'll have a good nosey on the David Austin site later and report back with a short list.

 

Here's a few more for you to look at!
https://www.styleroses.co.uk/index.php?catId=13

 

I planted a Graham Thomas 3 years ago ... planted it together with a red climbing rose .... it has done really well and makes loads of flowers

I read somewhere that it is the world's most 'desireable' rose at the moment

I know you don't like pink ... however Gertrude Jekyll is a bush rose that can trained as a climber ...

 

I know what you mean about pink. It is mostly banned from my garden, although the self-sown aquilegias don't seem to know this. I suppose the colour of Mme Isaac Pereire is more of a purple hue, really. It gets described as 'crimson-madder'. Personally, if I had the room, I'd grow lots of it even if the petals were sludge brown, just so long as they still had the wonderful smell!



'The Pilgrim' is a nice, smelly David Austin rose which can be bought as a short climber. It's a lovely soft shade of yellow which fades to a creamy colour. I think it is nicer than some of the harder yellows and easier to combine with other things. The flowers are a gorgeous shape, as well.



http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/Showrose.asp?Showr=4260

 

Those are stunning, Clara