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Climbing roses serve a functional purpose while adding color, texture, and beauty to a landscape. Most types of rose bushes grow like shrubs, but these climbers can be trained to screen for privacy, ...
Plant a climbing rose for a charming and dramatic element to your Southern garden. Vigorous and relatively easy to grow, let them sprawl on a fence, ascend a trellis, drape over an arbor, or scramble ...
Growing roses can be a challenge if it's your first time. Our gardening expert breaks down how to get started and reveals ...
When most people think about growing roses, they think of bushes and shrubs. If you haven’t discovered the exceptional beauty and versatility of climbing roses, you’re in for a happy surprise. Roses ...
Roses are classic garden favorites, prized for their dramatically beautiful and fragrant flowers. Climbing roses are especially spectacular and can be used to cover arbors, trellises, fences, and ...
Question for Dan Gill: I have a climbing rose I'm attempting to train on a wrought iron fence. I need some advice on how and when to prune and the best way to train this rose. --Charlotte Webster ...
Height is an important visual element in a garden, but you don’t need an arbor or expensive structure to gain some lift. Even an inexpensive wooden stake can be put to use for climbing roses. Just ...
A: You're right in knowing there's a difference. Shrub roses and climbing roses are two very different bloomers, and they require their own particular pruning. Unlike shrub types, climbers can't be ...
There are two categories of climbing roses: repeat-blooming types and once-blooming types. Although repeat-blooming climbing roses may be pruned later this month or in early February along with repeat ...
If you're growing fabulous climbing roses that look absolutely stunning in your garden, there's a clever gardening trick that you can use to help them burst with blooms and create a show-stopping ...
August is the month many of us do this. Exceptions include the old-fashioned roses that flower only once, in spring, on last year’s wood: old wood. Prune them around November, after flowering. Those ...