Rose Climbers

Modern climbers can have hybrid tea type flowers with fragrance, or floribunda type blooms, both ideal for picking. Having a frame to climb on maximizes the display they give and some varieties excel with training in the fan shape against a wall. Climbers need two or three seasons to establish, and every second or third winter there may be one old stem to prune out from the base when you can see the new cane growing up. The usual dead heading in winter and summer will enhance continued growth and flowering.