David Austin Climbing Rose Recommendations please
Hi All,
I would like to choose a new climbing rose to go next to my front door and train it up and horizontally around our lounge window and I'd appreciate your advice / help in making a good choice.
The aspect is north,(ish) my soil is lovely enriched clay. The house is red brick and the front door is white. The front garden path has deep borders either side with plants with mainly blue, apricot , orange and yellow flowers. There is also a Lady Emma Hamilton rose planted each side, and a bright blue ceanothus shrub under the window.
I am tempted by Wollerton Old Hall, l like the shape of its blooms. I also quite like Crown Princess Margareta and Teasing Georgia.
Does anyone have experience of any of these roses? How thorny they are, good foliage or prone to blackspot, scent, growth habit or would recommend another climbing rose they are thrilled with? It doesn't have to be an Austin rose by the way.
I have a credit note from my local garden centre from returning a failed Jude the Obscure rose l had in my back garden so need to buy it this weekend whilst it's still in date so can't wait to see any in flower.
I would like to choose a new climbing rose to go next to my front door and train it up and horizontally around our lounge window and I'd appreciate your advice / help in making a good choice.
The aspect is north,(ish) my soil is lovely enriched clay. The house is red brick and the front door is white. The front garden path has deep borders either side with plants with mainly blue, apricot , orange and yellow flowers. There is also a Lady Emma Hamilton rose planted each side, and a bright blue ceanothus shrub under the window.
I am tempted by Wollerton Old Hall, l like the shape of its blooms. I also quite like Crown Princess Margareta and Teasing Georgia.
Does anyone have experience of any of these roses? How thorny they are, good foliage or prone to blackspot, scent, growth habit or would recommend another climbing rose they are thrilled with? It doesn't have to be an Austin rose by the way.
I have a credit note from my local garden centre from returning a failed Jude the Obscure rose l had in my back garden so need to buy it this weekend whilst it's still in date so can't wait to see any in flower.
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I have Crown Princess Margareta and Teasing Georgia. Teasing Georgia is doing much better, I don't know why. Either would go well with your colour scheme. I think Wollerton Old Hall is too pale pink.
It's dark so I'm not going outside now, can't remember if she's prickly or not.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Thanks @Obelixx, another nudge towards Teasing Georgia then. I popped out the front for another look at the available space for a new rose. We always use our back door so I thought I'd better check. I have decided it doesn't need to go above the window, the window is taller than it looks and I am shorter than I thought so I don't want to be climbing on things to deadhead and tie in. So I will probably go for a shrub rose that sends out longer canes I can train where I want flowers, like I've done with Gertrude Jekyll.
That's a lovely rose @lovegardening77...stunning.
I've been having a good search online for suitable roses for a north aspect and admit I'm confused, and am no closer to making a choice. Got entranced by some beautiful deep red varieties but I guess they might clash?
or 'Bathsheba'.. few thorns, pliable thin canes, easy to train... honey scented.. grows north facing here..
happy choosing your rose !...
It will flop over without tons of support...