Planting Climbing Roses For A Gardening Masterpiece

Planting & Caring for Your Rose Garden

Roses are a great addition to anyone’s life, home or yard. They add color and beauty and they smell great, but over the years, roses have acquired a reputation as being one of the most fragile and time-consuming flowers you can attempt to grow on your own.

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The term "climbing roses" is not exactly correct. Roses do not climb like Ivy does, as they do not twine themselves around a support. Climbing roses actually need to be trained to grow in the direction you want, and the stems have to be physically supported by some means. Often this support is a trellis or a series of taut horizontal wires to which the stems can be tied.

The first step in planting climbing roses is to create the support mechanism onto which you will tie the trained rose stems. If you want to train your climbing rose plant to cover a wall, you need to position the support trellis or wires a few inches away from the wall so that air can pass freely behind the rose plant when it is fully grown.

One point to be very aware of is the strength of your climbing rose support mechanism. A fully grown climbing rose in full bloom can be quite heavy, especially if it covers an entire wall of your house. It is vital to ensure your trellis is strong enough to take this weight in wet and windy conditions and that it is firmly attached to the wall. The same goes for support wires which need to be positioned about one foot apart.

Dig holes for your climbing rose plants about twenty to thirty inches from the trellis and about three feet apart. Planting a climbing rose is the same for a normal rose plant except you should angle the stem slight towards the support wires or trellis.

Take care to position the bud union a few inches underground in cold climates and just above ground in warm climates. Cover the roots with soil and then water the plant to settle the loose soil before filling the hole with soil and tamping it down gently.

After planting climbing roses you need to loosely tie the stems to the trellis or support wires using a soft string or cloth and then prune the main stems to encourage new growth.