New buys + help with a climber

[MamaHawk]

Hi all,

I just bought two discounted roses and I’m excited - maybe too excited because I’m unsure where to put them.

I’ve got an Angel Face that should be able to be plunked by my Sweet Mademoiselle (or somewhere, I’ll figure it out), but also a problem child White Dawn.

I hadn’t realized it was a vigorous climber, and I’m nervous about it taking over something. See, we have a slope on the edge of our property - a garden to the east by a foot, a sidewalk to the west by a foot, our neighbor’s property to the north by however much I plant it, and a makeshift driveway in maybe 10 feet south of the neighbor’s land. So that’s like…maybe a 2x10 stretch I was considering training it vertically in. Is that enough? Am I failing to consider height also? What have I done???

 

[Sheal]

Climbers and ramblers should be grown horizontally not vertically to flower properly. Smaller stems growing up from the horizontal main stems can be kept under control by pruning or weaving them back in horizontally.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Slight clarification, ideally grow it up something like a fence and train the side shoots out horizontally so they come off in either direction at fairly short intervals and cover the fence. I had a vision when I first read Sheal's post of a rose sprawling out horizontally at ground level, no.

 

[MamaHawk]

Hi guys! Yes, I don’t plan on letting it touch the ground; how high up is sufficient do you think?