When I first move to Roxbury, I noticed that a lot of the houses in our neighborhood have this Climbing Rose. So, I have referred to it as the Roxbury Rose since then.
When I move to this property, I saw that I have my very own Roxbury Rose here. It had been very, very much neglected for a long time. And as you can see, a lot of the bottom area is void of any rose buds where any new shoots.
A great companion plant to roses is this beautiful clematis here and I planted two clematis plants. One of them has already flowered and it flowers much earlier than this one right around April.
What I have added to my Roxbury Climbing Roses is a bed of perennial flowers. I have got ‘Forget-Me-Nots’ here that I started from seed. I have lupine. I have got a bunch of hollyhock and just have a variety of different perennial flowers. In terms of maintaining your climbing roses, what you want to do is once the rose bushes bloomed, that is when you can start pruning it. And got my pruning shears here and the first thing I am going to do is I am going to start off by just taking out these sections that did not grow any flowers.
So in the process of training your climbing roses, wherever you want them, you might want to securely tie them to your trellis or fence or whatever. You are growing it on, I just loop the string and then pull it through. And what this does is it secures it really, really well to the fence. And then, all I have to do is wrap this through and tie it off. These roses smell amazing.
Now having this Roxbury Roses growing on my house inspired me to take a step further. Few years ago, I built a lotus fence along one side of my property and I have been growing a bunch of different varieties of climbing roses. Let us go take a look.
I am Patti the garden girl, thanks for watching.
