Climbing Roses
Patti, the Garden Girl, host of the national PBS show Farmers Almanac TV shows how to brighten up your home and keep it secure with climbing roses.
Step 1: The roxbury rose
When I first moved to Roxbury, I noticed that a lot of the houses in the neighborhood had this climbing rose. So I've referred to it as the Roxbury rose since then. When I moved to this property, I saw that I had 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 or any new shoots.
Step 2: Clymatis
A great companion plant to roses is this beautiful clymatis here, and I planted two clymatis plants. One of them has already flowered, and it flowered a lot earlier than this one, right around April. What I've added to my Roxbury climbing roses is a bed of perennial flowers. I've got forget-me-nots here that I started from seed, I have lupine, I've got a bunch of hollyhock, and just a variety of different perennial flowers.
Step 3: Maintenance
In terms of maintaining your climbing roses, what you wanna do is, once the rosebush has bloomed that's when you can start pruning it. I've got my pruning shears here, and the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start off by just taking out these sections that did not grow any flowers.
Step 4: Training
So in the process of training your climbing roses wherever you want them, you're gonna want to securely tie them to your trellis or fence or whatever you're growing it on. I just loop the string and then pull it through, and what this does it, it secures it really really well to the fence, and then all I have to do is thread this through and tie it off.
Step 5: Enjoy the climbing roses.
These roses smell amazing. Now, having these Roxbury roses growing on my house inspired me to take it a step further. A few years ago I built a lattice fence along one side of my property, and I've been growing a bunch of different varieties of climbing roses. Let's go take a look.
I'm Patty the Garden Girl, thanks for watching
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