Growing roses can be a challenge if it's your first time. Our gardening expert breaks down how to get started and reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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CLIMBING roses occupy a special place in the gardener’s heart. No other bower is quite as beautiful, fragrant or romantic. And yet a plant so essential to the dreaminess of a garden is not grown much ...

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 ...

14:42, Mon, Jun 16, 2025 Updated: 14:48, Mon, Jun 16, 2025 Climbing roses look beautiful intertwined on a fence or hanging up a wall, but they can often struggle to flower in summer because most ...