Choose the Right Climbing Rose 

My goodness, I'm only a quarter of the way into this vid and my bank account is in tears 😁😂. Also husband just loves when I "discover" empty spaces in the garden. I think I just discovered another that would be in need of some apricot climbers.

The David Austin Gertrude Jekyll does wonderfully as a climber or a shrub. The breeder sells both angles. I love them so much, I'm putting more in. Its the only rose that I can smell the final single blossom of the year as I walk by it this mid October in zone 6 New England! It's scent is truly amazing! Not a single black spot or mildew. Actually the aphids didn't even bother it! You won't be disappointed in your purchase

One i've fallen in love with is the Delbard 'Nahema'. Beautiful china-pink type colour and the scent is wonderful too

WOW so I searched up “how to prune dead head rose” and after watching that video I was wondering if I got a good climber rose.. so I clicked on your channel & this was the first video suggestion 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I have been buying roses more than spaces I have in the garden. Polka produces one of the largest blooms that attracts me. 🤔 start thinking if I can plant some in the park next to my house 😅

Can you make a video of thornless roses? I would sure appreciate it. I also appreciate that you have such a variety of colors and roses. Very lovely. Love your cleome too!

Don Juan was a favorite of my clients. I love that roses take so many shapes.

I have a Gertrude Jekyll, she is 20 years old now. I’m in zone 5a, northern Colorado, and she is Blooming now. I’m eXpecting frost tomorrow night!

Jason thank you for a very good idea about climbing roses

Very informative video. Thanks Jason.

Super info about roses many many thanks Jason have also subscribed, your the one-stop oracle for all things roses.

This was a lovely video, your love of roses shines through, and I am especially glad you stress a lot of scented roses. For a long while, this wonderful characteristic was almost gone, in exchange for big blooms etc. thank you so much. Growing roses has been my hobby all my life, at 72 years old, my favourites are Pink Peace and Climbing Pink Peace. They are so hard to find lately. Also hard to find but deliciously scented is Papa Meilland. Thanks for this enjoyable video. Windsor, Ontario, city of roses.

Thank you so much for this info. Love the videos and all the presentation and straightforward education. This has helped me tremendously in growing my roses.

Great video! May I also recommend DA 'The Generous Gardener'. Flowers truly reminds me floating water lilies. Every time I look at this climbing rose, images of Monet's paintings jump to mind... 🎨😆 Flowers are fleeting however and only lasts for a couple of days, but she's a productive rose with an abundance of flowers. She's also known for producing large rose hips in autumn. Gorgeous fragrance that carries through the air on hot sunny days. 🥰

Thank you Jason……….love your flowers

Well explained. Loved it.

Love your videos, they’re always inspiring, and I’m always sharing them, they are so full of useful information and practical easy to follow demonstrations. You named a number of roses I love, The Pilgrim being my favorite.

Thanks Jason for all your information on climbers, I wish I had more space, but also more importantly the sunny spots. 👍❤️😊

Thank you. I am learning a lot from your videos. Just starting to love roses.

If you have the space, Paul's Himalayan Musk once bloomer, but can't beat the performance. Blooms over long period. Mine is growing about 20' up an old maple tree. Also, love Lady In Red climber.

I love your videos, thank you so much! Ready to train my climbers which are just super tall vertical stems at the moment.

Thank you! Information is very helpful!👍👍👍

Planted a "Coral Dawn" this year. Man did it grow! At least 10 feet. And big beautiful fragrant pink blooms. Looking forward to adding a contrasting colour rose next year

Beautiful 😍 🤩 Tha🎉nks for sharing the experience with all the information about the climbing rose.I appreciate it very much.

I'd recommend Crimson Glory. Been growing at my house since the 70's.

Lovely video, perfect for this time of year when the skies are turning grey in Scandinavia. My favourite climber is actually Buff Beauty, so it made me really happy to hear you mention it. I have one in a large pot that is waiting for me to find a place to plant it. Laguna surprised me this year with its beauty and strong damask fragrance. There is lighter pink sport that is called Sweet Laguna - I "accidently" bought it - and have troble finding a place for it. It's an addiction...

As always soooo helpful. Thanks Jason💚

Really did enjoy your video. Very clear & informative. All the best 🥀

Beautul roses, very informative video. Thanks for sharing.

loved your video Fraser

Thank you for this!!!

I love that one it's gorgeous I never had a rose like that it's gorgeous gorgeous

Bookmarked, looking for a sunny space in my garden and start shopping soon. Thanks Jason 😁👍

Unbelievable I got a new fence and my intent is to grow climbers. Your knowledge is amazing and I would follow you anywhere I know you got it already figured out 😅

Thank you Jason, this was a timely video as I’ve just order my first climber ( Olivia Austin CL) and I’m considering adding a second to my garden. There are several you’ve showcased that I think are quite lovely so I’ll have to look into them. As always your videos are great and very interesting so thanks doing them. A fan from Austin, Texas. Oh and congratulations on your “retirement “ !!

Thanks for the comments re the scent and florists shape of Don Juan and thanks for the Roberta Bondar recommendation- I love yellow.

Another excellent review Jason. Really appreciate that you actually grow the things you recommend. And interesting facts to back it up Cheers Jason and Colleen 🌱🌱🌱

Beautiful Rose 🌹Love it so much 💖

thank you so much for the inspiration and your knowledge.

The Pilgrim is absolutely superb. My favourite. Ours is flowering its socks off (June in UK).

Belissima escolha de trepadeiras, flores incríveis... Mais um video fantástico

Thank you Jason for another informative video showcasing some gorgeous climbers! I'm still working on my one and only 'John Davis' (which you had recommended in another video), if that produces blooms, I'll maybe have to get some more!

Love your collection ! We have the same taste. An Austin climber that's worth suggesting for fragrance and flower production is Strawberry Hills. As for a favorite apricot color, there is an oldie that grows pretty big, but well worth the space and time; her name is Alchymist ! If you plant this one, and even though it's a once bloomer, she'll definitely become a favorite !

Thank you for sharing this video. Very informative. I will check your website and pick some roses. 😍😁

Those roses are absolutely gorgeous. Cheers from your newest subscriber in Ottawa🍁

I'm so happy that you mentioned your love for the rose, 'Ghilsane de Feligonde' as I planted one last year. It had a few blooms and continued to grow super tall!! I can't wait to see if she survives our cold temps here in Zone 5b, NW Illinois. I also would recommend for cold climates, any of the Canadian Explorer roses including John Davis, William Baffin and John Cabot - super hardy roses.

Great video!

Very beautiful thank you

My list just got bigger! If you like apricot, orange colored roses(the color is hard to explain. Kind of like the sky at sunset over the ocean on a clear day), Tangerine Skies Arborose is a gorgeous climbing rose that produces large strongly scented blooms.

I just bought the proven winners rise up lilac (I normally wouldn't order roses from PW but I needed a heat tolerant lilac anyway and was tempted while ordering on their website). supposedly one of the best climbing light purple roses, I can't wait to grow it!! I'm actually probably going to keep mine as a landscaping shrub rose

Hi Jason, happy to hear u will “retire” doing something you love…that’s the way to do it ! Best wishes as u go forward…Thanks again for another informative vid…would love to know if you have any recommendations for a climber in a tropical climate ?

By influence of this video, I got a Polka and it has boomed. I ❤ it! Thanks for the recommendations and for the video.

My favorite climber is Zephirine Drouhin, thornless as well and marvelous scent.

The David Austin rose, Tess is exquisite. Deep red, heady fragrance. Thanks for your video.

You are AMAZING!

yes, been looking for polka

I love all roses, my favorite! Bought a new house last year, and there were none in the yard! Went to Lowe's got several on clearance brought them home gave them a new home, they are getting ready to bloom, getting new leaves, can't wait after this cold winter here in TN thanks for the tips on climbers!

I just potted up a bunch of my new dawn cuttings and My wife and I discussed it and decided to plant them at our new trellis that we recently put in. It was funny because right after we had decided about it, your video showed up and the new dawn what is the first one you mentioned. LOL hey! By the way, your channel is awesome! I’ll be glad when I can get a mist system set up here at my new nursery.

JUST BEAUTIFUL.**

I have 2 of the Gertrude Jekyll because I absolutely love the scent. I had walked by one at a local nursery and just stopped in my tracks. I needed that rose! You will love it.

Thank you for telling us about roses 😍🌹🇮🇹

I have Abraham Darby which is apricot color, lovely fragrance and is 8 feet. Repeat blooms a lot! Love it!

Jason, Thank you for this video about climbers. I am an avid rosarian and left my established roses behind to move to acerage. Last spring I put in a formal rose garden here with about 70 new roses, plus about 10 climbers. I am new to climbers and have planted two Pretty in Pink Eden climbers on my wrap around porch. It gets morning sun and afternoon shade. I hope the Edens will be okay with morning sun exposure. I also planted Joseph's Coat and it put on a major show in its first year this summer! I have David Austin's Strawberry Hill and DA Colette, which can both be grown as climbers. I really appreciate you sharing the pruning videos and information about climbers. Thank you!

Thank you só much!🥰

Another excellent video! Wish I could support your farm, but not so here in Chicago. I appreciate the recommendations yet can't decide which to choose! :)

Great video - thank you!!!!! I planted "Ghislaine de Feligonde " and "Felicite et Perpetue " last fall. "Ghislaine de Feligonde" is beautiful. This year I chose "Alchymist" and "Aloha". :-)

Glad to know someone else loves Buff Beauty.

Wowza. Can definitely see why people are so eager to get heir hands on an Eden rose! I'll be getting a climbing rose this season, thank you for the inspiration.

I hope one day you can introduce some Japanese roses. Recent years Japanese breeders make a lot of successful variety and they looks very gorgeous! They has more unique color and shapes, especially the blue roses, it is so special!

Hi from uk luv roses

My favorite climbing rose that also looks beautiful as a freestanding shrub is Colette. It grows to the size of a forsythia or a bridal veil spirea and when in main bloom in early summer, makes a beautiful and fragrant specimen that's absolutely awesome. It does rebloom later on in the summer, but not as fully as that first bloom...but the whole plant is very shapely when left to grow untrimmed.

Great vid Jason. I love climbers !

Very good info.best stuff for promoting and getting more people into these beautiful pastimes of glorious perfumes and attractors for pollinating . Just can’t say enough for the content. Sent me a copy of it. Just great. ,!

I had a Kiftsgate rose on a very very large Arbour for years. Incredibly prolific it expanded to 20+ ft branches. It is white and when it blooms the fragrance it amazing. Bees absolutely coated the flowers and you could hear them from quite a distance. Alas, the Arbour rotted and collapsed as did the rose. I was successful at 3 cuttings and would love to replant. Would love to grow up a strong tree. This rose is a winner if you have LOTS of room!

Florentina is a wonderful rose, super disease-resistant. I saw it in the Europa Rosarium in Sangerhausen in Germany at the beginning of September. Despite the rainy summer it looked incredibly healthy and had lots of flowers. Another super-healthy one was Bajazzo which is also a repeat-flowering rose.

Just ordered some Don Juan. I can’t wait to plant them next to my garage and have the grow up the side.

Oh yeah. David Austin is my choice. I’m going to be looking into finding a couple climbers from David Austin to put on a new pergola that I put up. You definitely gave me a couple great choices

Yes , the once bloomming Lady Banks rose comes in a yellow and white or light pink varities. 😊

Hello Jason! Love your channel. Thank you for putting in so much effort - I do realise you don’t have first hand experience of hot/humid climates or warmer ones like zone 11 USA but would still highly appreciate input for those climates too ❤ Thanks in advance

I just ordered, Bathsheba climber from David Austin. I have Alchemist as a once bloomer, it’s beautiful.

Both you’re Austin climbers GJ and the Pilgrim I will highly recommend! Just hit the like on the way in guys! Thanks for the vid! B

There used to be some good plant nurseries in Windsor, Ontario, now we have big box stores with incorrectly names plants, would love it if we could get the antique roses, heirloom types.

Hi Jason, you have done it again! Being as it is that I am in love with roses your video is absolutely disturbing, I want them all!!! Please advise me which would be the best acquisition to provide the profusion, beauty and fragrance of one or more roses that will drive where I live (Mallorca). And can you provide where I can have them shipped to me? Good God Jason, you inject so much knowledge and admiration with all your knowledge of roses 🌹. Thank you so much.

thank you very much

Planted Gertrude Jekyll on a tuteur this spring.

wow, that is just tremendous Jason, tons of good information and ideas there. I'm sure I will be viewing this video again. I have Don Juan in my yard but much prefer my Dublin Bay. btw, you talk fast enough the CC gets to be a real mash-up. Probably no way you can edit that.

Wonderful suggestions. We planted Sally Holmes and Altissimo together and they make a great couple; 'Al & Sal' as we call them.

Thanks...

For me, two of the best are Aloha (Boerner) and Crimson Glory, both highly scented.

Glad you mentioned Westerland… I just bought one bare root in Australia but left it in box too long as weather was so cold windy n wet and by the time I unboxed it, it was nearly dead, however it has some green and a few leaf buds so I sprayed it with rose food and am keeping it watered speaking love and life over it, expecting it to recover! It’s a gorgeous colour though I’ve only seen it online not for real. How would you describe the scent (other than strong …which is good news)?

I put in a Gertrude Jekyll in last year. Man it’s thorny! Not much blooms in year one. Looking forward to seeing what it will do next year.

Most incredible beautiful video HALLELUJAH

Strongly recommend Gertrude Jekyll, it’s beautiful and edible, you can make rose jam

I have ordered Bathsheba which is a DA climber. I hope it's wonderful.

Very informative! I have Westerland, but not a proper structure for it to climb on; it's good to know it can be grown as a shrub. Jason, do you - or will you next year sell at farmer's markets south of the river? I'm in SE Langley, within walking distance of … the other rose breeder … but you know - options are always good.

Mill Pond Botanical Garden in Delaware's favorite climber is the thornless old Bourbon rose, 'Therese Drouhin' a large deep pink, abundant repeat bloomer, to 12 feet, somewhat disease resistant, and fragrant. No thorns is very welcome on an arch way or where visitors pass close and at some risk of snag on thorny roses.

In Southern Ontario we lost our Eden roses. I had it for years and I’m not the only one. The nursery said they had a huge fail rate this spring. Not sure what happened to cause this.

Love your videos! In my experience, many clients are disappointed to learn that many climbers on the market such as 'Eden' and 'Don Juan', are not cane hardy to cold winter areas of Canada and suffer severe cane damage as a result. They generally don't survive on their natural roots and require a graft that must be buried deep. Also needing serious winter protection on top of that, if they're envisioned to adequately fill a whole garden structure, they may still suffer substantial damage regardless of any winter protection they receive. Eden and Westerland can be treated as small shrubs in colder zones since they winterkill right down to the ground. The following climbers (or large shrubs that can be trained into climbers) are suited to cold Canadian zones 3-5 on their natural roots. Depending on micro-climate and winter-type, wind and freezing rain can do a nasty number on roses. The canes of these varieties should hold up better or suffer less or minimal winter damage. *Canadian Explorer Climbers:* Sir Thomas Lipton, William Baffin and its sport, Lucy Irene, John Cabot, John Davis, Quadra, Henry Kelsey, Captain Samuel Holland, Louis Jolliet, Alexander Mackenzie. *Additional Climbers:* Albertine, Lilian Gibson, Polestar, Ramblin' Red, Repens Alba, Above and Beyond, Carmenetta, Dortmund, Rosatoum Utersen, Alchymist, Fruhlingsgold, Ames Climber, Cherry Frost and sometimes New Dawn. If anyone else has more to add to this zone appropriate list, please do chime in... 🌹

I regularly watch your video and admire your knowledge. I would like to add 2 of my favourites to your list: Zephirine Drouhin, absolutely thornless!! fuchsia/cherry rose burbon type rose with strong fragrance. Easy to train. Abraham Darby, an Austin rose that can be both a shrub and a climber, amber orange colour, strong fragrance. I could send you pictures by mail. Zephirine climbs 5-6 yards (4+ meters)to the roof and has a spectacular blooming in spring and less blooms later, Abraham Darby blooms about the same time , 2.5-3meters, till frost. Both get black spots unless sprayed but I often forget and they still survive. I can send you pictures by email.

Eden rose is so beautiful