Looked it up, and it's good to zone 3. I wouldn't have bothered wrapping it. I'm no expert though.

Thanks witch and moses for the info. Moses the height on the box is 4 foot high. Wife wants to put layer of rocks bottom (it’s open) for drainage with a layer of mulch and peat. I would say it would have no less than 3 feet of fresh soil in the dimensions on last post. I want to put the climber in there cause it sucks to bend over from military war injury. Bad back. Anyways if it doesn’t stunt the growth of the plant I will move it. When is best time to transplant anyways? I did a few teas in August and they were fine.

i basically built a 6 foot planter box where 3 full lattice sheets are bolted into place. Basically matches my deck and I wanna block out neighbors on both sides for privacy.

Thoughts? Thanks again for info.

I grew Golden Showers for years--long before I had any idea how to grow roses. So let me assure you that that is one tough plant that can largely take care of itself. It has some rambler in its background, so feel free to let it ramble--that way the branches will naturally extend outward and help produce more blooms. The one thing I noticed about GS is that it likes regular watering. Any time it quit producing blooms, all I had to do was give it a good watering, and voila--blooms.

The negative side of GS is that the blooms are not good at holding their shape and don't last very long. But they are so abundant and cheerfully yellow that I never noticed that much from a distance. Don't know how that will be for you with it planted closer to where you will view it.

Golden Showers--probably 6-10 years old.

You will have to spray it periodically with a fungicide. Definitely does have some problems with blackspot, but not the worst one in the world.

I'm inclined to think your planter box may not be large enough. My GS threw long canes 7-10 feet in the air and then arched , extending out sideways. For support, I put a strong metal rod securely in the ground--it was maybe 6 ft tall and attached a cheap fanshaped trellis (about 5 ft tall) to the rod and attached GS (in fanshape) to the trellis--but the long canes extended way beyond the trellis.

It got RRD disease after about 12 years and I had to dig it up. I seem to remember that the roots went quite deep and spread rather wide.

As for winter protection, I didn't do anything to protect it. It might have received a bit of protection from the leaves blowing over from the big oak tree in my neighbor's yard, but that would have been minimal. Like I said, it is tough.

If I had room, I might want to plant it again. It used to get good comments from visitors to the garden.

Kate

Found a couple more older pics of Golden Showers:

You can get more sense of its sprawl here (but ignore the neighbor's mess I was hoping to block out).

Here you can see Molineux in the foreground--about 3.5 ft tall--and Golden Showers to the rear right side of the photo. Gives you an idea of its height.

Here is the Golden Showers bloom looking its best. Unfortunately it flops open within a day, so don't plant GS for the shape of its bloom!

Kinda fun digging out my old GS photos. I kinda miss this rambler now.

Good luck with yours.

Kate

Hello Kate thanks for the reply and pics. You are right on the flowers. Mine would last a day or two before flattening out. Still not bad but the color on these are really nice. So are you saying box might not be big enough because of root system? Or spreading in width as it matures? If it goes in box I plan to control it’s spreading. Just wondering if it would stunt its growth as in like putting it in a 1 gallon pot. Maybe I’m wrong Dunno.

Thanks again for the reply and pics.

My lion's fairy tale blooms are like that, and I hate it. I've yet to see one that looked like the picture that caused me to get it. Blink, and they're open. lol Pretty though, when you have a big climber full with them going and going. I keep looking at the pic at chamblees wondering how they got that photo (of lion)? Sorry for the ramble, it's just good to know the blooms that do that, because I know I don't care for it. Nice photos Kate.

Check out Palatine Roses and Antique Rose Emporium to order from as well. Is your GS in a pot right now? Are you sure Ann Arbor is Z6, I think you might be Z5? I'm guessing Eden and Joseph's Coat will not be cane hardy for you. Search around here on the forum, there are a bunch of threads about cold zone climbers. Happy shopping!