These are soo beautiful. Can you describe the most cold hardy of the climbers and rambelers? I would like to try some in us zone 4....

I love these so much! I have four of the above and will no doubt want all now. My Madame Alice may have gall so I'll need to root one or get another from RVR.

I'm glad to hear they do ok in some shade. I have a few small trees on my property that I plan to grown ramblers up into.

Bleu Magenta and Aryshire Splendens are my favorites

Another bunch of beauties. Love them all.

Another nice group photos! I have Alberic Barier, Francois Juranville and mme Alice Garnier, thanks to Lynnette. I 'd love to grow Gardenia and Jessica. I don't have Blue Magenta, but I have a Veilchenblau. I checked on a few ramblers today, a lot of them are cane hardy to the tip (zone 6a), but Rene Andre has the most winter damage. I might have to move it to a protected spot in the spring so it can stay tall.

Gorgeous blooms , they all look sooo healthy..wish I could grow some of these in my zone

They are all beautiful indeed. I am not sure if there are cane hardy ramblers. Honestly I have never thought of growing them until now.

Beautiful roses and photography! The sharpness of the photos is remarkable. Can you share what kind of camera you're using? Thanks!

I selected a Nikon D90 because a lot of my photos would have red shades in them. Nikon is the best for reds, but that could have changed by now as my camera is already 5 years old. It seems that one year Cannon is the best all round camera and then next year Nikon and then Fuji etc I don't care that the Nikon isn't the best at fast shots because my subjects hardly move!!

jpeace would it matter if they died back to the ground? Rambles spring back with amazing speed. I cut one right to the ground because I wanted to get rid of it. Forgot about it and the thing shot up basals everywhere.

They bloom on old wood though. If not cane hardy, no bloom, I wouldn't think.

There are a few ramblers listed as being cold hardy to at least zone 5. Once bloomers Baltimore Bell and Long John Silver are two that I can think of.

Blushing Lucy is cold hardy too.

Thank you oldrosarian!

Hello friends. I surgically intervened again a couple of weeks ago and the convalence has been absent from this forum (I fell and I broke my ankle in two parts). Back here with you !!

What a pity that it takes so much effort to understand what they say and to be able to express myself! It is a very heavy job to always use the google translator. But hey, it's okay if I can communicate.

I wanted to comment that a couple of days ago I read a very interesting article on how to help our roses before the arrival of the intense cold of winter.

The gardener (who lived in Minnesota) who wrote the article argued that it is good to make weekly potassium applications just six weeks before the first strong frost begins.

He talked about several options to provide potassium to roses. It may be valid to use muriate of potassium but also potassium sulphate (0-0-50) that having 18% sulfur lowers the pH of the soil a little and it may be well for our roses to grow on a slightly more acidic soil.

So he explained that he dissolved 1 / 1.5 teaspoons of potassium sulphate in a gallon of water and applied this mixture weekly to each rose. This equals during the six weeks to the first strong frost. I did it six times.

He argued that this applied potassium helped block the growth effect of N. and therefore that the rose enters latency and favoring that the branches are hardened when winter arrives.

What do you think of this proposal? Do you make this potassium application? Surely you have read about this topic?

I acknowledge that I had no news of this and that when I read it I was surprised.

Anyway, my garden has no deep or prolonged frost. Despite having rather cold winter weather. I'm not sure it would be wise to make this potassium. What do you think?

Thanks for the ramblers suggestion.

I never tried the potassium mixture but sounds good too to be true.

Definitely worth a try!!