Climbing Roses
One of a series of occasional photo stories from saxonholt.com
Photos and text copyright © Saxon Holt 2005

Few garden plants have the impact of climbing roses when in full bloom. With breathtaking showers of color cascading over walls, down from trees, or sprawling over arbors, a climbing rose can dominate a garden.

Rambling Rose (hybrid multiflora) 'Tausendschon' cascading over hillside. 476-327
Climbing roses come from all classes of roses and have bloom times ranging from very early in the spring, such as this Rosa banksii lutea 'Lady Banks' blooming with wisteria, to multiflowing climbing miniature roses. 287-3028

Hybrid musk roses such as this 'Lavender Lassie' bloom throughout the summer though the first flush is always the most spectacular.  When grown up through a tree a climbing rose can provide startling color seemingly from nowhere. 637-174
Perhaps the most classically romantic use of any rose is sprawling over an arbor. Here an old Climbing Rose 'Alexander Girault' is trained over an arch at a garden enty promising beauty to all who enter. 642-165

Here, the Noisette rose'Reve d'Or', becomes a climber by trianing it up and over an arbor. After just a few years of training it becomes a canopy of fragrance. 541-568


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