A climbing rose bush is a beautiful and versatile floral addition to any landscape. While the traditional uses for climbing rose bushes have been to cover arbors, trellises or pergolas in the landscape, certain varieties of climbing rose bushes make excellent ground covers or camouflage for unsightly outdoor structures.
Rambler Climbing Rose Bush
The Rambler climbing rose bush, or Rambling rose as it’s affectionately called, grow very rapidly and can develop canes up to 20 feet within one growing season. A Rambler climbing rose bush produces small clusters of roses only once per season, but has glossy green foliage throughout the season. The Rambler climbing rose bush is good for traditional planting and when planted as ground cover or for climbing and camouflaging any outdoor structure. The only drawback to the Rambler climbing rose bush is that many varieties are susceptible to powdery mildew.
Trailing Roses
This climbing rose bush variety is very adept at climbing up walls or down steep embankments, producing long canes that will creep and adapt to their surroundings. Trailing roses do not produce the most attractive roses, but they will help prevent soil erosion when planted on an embankment or camouflage other landscape problems.
Large-Flowered Climbing Rose Bush
The large-flowered climber is the variety of climbing rose bush that is best suited to cover an arbor, trellis or other maintained structure. The large-flowered climbing rose grows slower than the Rambler or Trailing rose, which makes the rose canes easier to train on a structure. As this variety of rose bush suggests, the Large-flowered climbing rose bush produces large, fragrant roses. Horizontal training for the large-flowered climbing rose bush will yield the most rose blooms. Roses from the Large-flowered climbing rose bush varieties are good for cutting, but some varieties only bloom once per season and some bloom throughout the summer. Read the plant label to make certain you are purchasing the type of blooms that you want.
The Ever-blooming climbing rose bush is a landscape favorite, climbing and producing fragrant roses throughout the growing season that are good for cutting. The Ever-blooming climbing rose bush grows at just the right pace for easy training on trellises, arbors or pergolas. The Ever-blooming climbing rose bush will produce an abundance of roses for the first blooming of the season. The quality and quantity of rose blooms for the remainder of the season will depend upon the growing and training conditions. If the Ever-blooming has the right soil conditions, with plenty of soil nutrients, proper feedings and proper watering, combined with horizontal training and enough sunlight,, the Ever-blooming climbing rose bush will produce a monthly bounty of fragrant roses from spring till the first killing frost in the late fall.
Hybrid Teas, Polyanthus and Floribunda Climbing Rose Bushes
If you have a favorite hybrid tea, polyanthus or floribundas rose bush, chances are it comes in a climbing variety. The roses and foliage will be identical in the bush rose and climbing rose varieties, since the climbers begins as offshoots and seedlings of the hybrids teas, polyanthus and floribundas. The climbing rose varieties, like their parent rose bushes, will be not be winter hardy unless protected against severe winter weather.
