This plant does not 'climb '. It uses a horizontal plane for support and then it cascades. You'd need a heck of a lot of masonry nails or heavy trellising in order to train it
to grow up a wall.

This rose is at its best when allowed to be supported by, then grow over a railing, arbor, or similar.

If you locate your rose thoughtfully, you shouldn't have to worry about 'keeping it in hand '.

Dear AWP2007,
We have a Lady Banksia rose that climbs three or four stories up a mature slash pine. It puts on a spectacular show with thousands of light yellow blossoms and reaches out in all directions from the trunk of the pine. The rose is a little more than thirty years old and is, thus, a mature specimen. It is sited so that we do not have to prune it or do anything for it except to let it go its own way. And away it goes!

Climbing a 3-dimensional tree is totally different than climbing a brick wall.

I think you would find yourself on a ladder several times per year trying to train this plant up (by attaching it to) a wall. As rhizo said, it won't hold itself to the wall.

Yes, Opp, trees and walls are totally different things.

Now, Rhizo, to say that a Lady Banksia rose 'does not climb' is to misspeak. I planted our Lady Banksia rose at the foot of a slash pine, walked away from it, and ignored it. The Lady Banksia rose is four stories high. It must have climbed but perhaps not by aerial rootlets or holdfasts or whatever. The Lady Banksia rose surely climbs, but not like English ivy or creeping fig. (I can hear esh_ga gasping at the mention of English ivy; however, I've never heard her snort about _Ficus pumila_, which may be too cold-sensitive for her corner of the universe.)

jay, although you're not sure how your LB leaned its' way up your tree, you've inserted your unrelated experience into the conversation without either endorsing the OP's idea or offering any reason why you think it might not work. What point you are trying to make?

And why the snide remarks? Do you really think it's appropriate to speak to strangers so rudely? I doubt anyone else is taking this seriously enough to gasp. Chill man.

This Lady Banks has been cut down three times.

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Purple, dear,
esh-ga and I have a long-running difference of opinion concerning English ivy. I didn't say the first rude word in my comment. Perhaps you should re-read the comment.

As far as the relevance of my observations about _Rosa banksiae_, again, if you will re-read the comment, it is hoped that you will understand that what I said is that this rose climbs, but does so without aerial roots, or holdfasts, like those of English ivy or creeping fig.

I apologize for causing your mis-perception of rudeness, which is certainly not to be found in my posting.