Help with choosing and planting climbing Rose
I am considering planting a climbing rose (or two) against a south facing fence with full sun. I really like how the cream David Austin rose that has been trained against the wall in the pic below (from their web site) and would like to be able to replicate in our garden against our fence with some medium height plants at the base. I am a newbie gardener and no real experience in Rose. We have chalky soil but have so far done ok planting all sorts by adding plenty of rotted manure and or compost.
Below are my questions, feel free to answer one or more. Many thanks in advance.
1 -What would be the best cream, apricot or white Rose for this purpose? Long repeat flowering would be top of my wishlist. I believe the one in the pic is Claire Austin?
2 - Would I need additional support against and/or on top of the fence?
3 - Ideally I would like the Rose to spread across a 5 meter section of the 6 ft fence, would I need one or two Rose plants?
4 - Unfortunately we are under constant attack from the neighbours ivy on the other side of the fence, would it be wishful thinking that we can protect the Rose?
Below are my questions, feel free to answer one or more. Many thanks in advance.
1 -What would be the best cream, apricot or white Rose for this purpose? Long repeat flowering would be top of my wishlist. I believe the one in the pic is Claire Austin?
2 - Would I need additional support against and/or on top of the fence?
3 - Ideally I would like the Rose to spread across a 5 meter section of the 6 ft fence, would I need one or two Rose plants?
4 - Unfortunately we are under constant attack from the neighbours ivy on the other side of the fence, would it be wishful thinking that we can protect the Rose?
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For pure white, not a lot beats the classic "Iceburg". "Wollerton Old Hall" is lovely too, more apricot.
I think you would have to try to keep the ivy under control if possible. Would it be possible to have a word with the neighbour?
As for size of rose, look on Google and see what sizes they grow to. Some would easily cover that space, even be too tall, some may take a while but others, like "Snowgoose" which is a small rambler, wouldn't be big enough so you would need two.
@Busy-Lizzie I will have a word with them at some stage as the ivy (amongst other weeds) is pushing through some fence panels and I don't think they would want to share the eventual bill for new fence as there is a 50m fence line full of ivy between us! They are very old and had to pay for cutting down an old dying willow tree with TPO that started to fall apart on our drive so thought its best to let them recover from that episode first.
It throws up very long pliable slender shoots and I estimate it's just over 2 metres high so if you planted one in the middle say of two fence panels and fan trained the shoots on either side of the base, one plant would cover two fence panels I reckon. Hope this gives you some idea. It is a lovely rose, slightly incurved blooms, creamy white on the outside, then lemon on the inside. Not a strong fragrance to my nose but quite a prolific flowerer on and off.