Hi Sheryl. There are lots of others here who will have more experience than me, but I have found that Raspberry Cream Twirl is pretty agreeable to being trained. Try to be careful and gentle, but don’t worry too much about breaking one or two canes. If it happens, just cut it back to a budeye where it will grow again (just like when pruning).

I would try to tie all the canes in. I find myself needing to tie/train Raspberry Cream Twirl again about once a month because it grows so fast. This is why I wouldn’t worry about breaking a few canes. It will grow again!

Let us know how it goes once you finish! Take photos! :-)

Not perfect, but it’s a start. The little ones did very well and I have 5 of them. My husband did a great job with the cables. And as I tied the last cane, it started to rain and we are desperate for rain.

My work in progress.

You did a great job! That slope looks scary! What a wonderful home. It’s all just absolutely gorgeous.

Thank you! Interior design is my forté and gardening/landscaping never was. Since building this house I am much more interested in the garden area. A landscaper did all the heavy work and I just gave him the idea of what I wanted and definitely what I didn’t want. It has turned out a bit more “manicured” than I envisioned for a log house, but I just can’t seem to manage wild and natural, even though I love that look.

Looks like you have good support and did a great job. When your roses and companion plants fill in, the lines will grow naturally softer. However, it looks lovely now and so does your log house!

Climbing roses are my favorite. I got my start by watching the Paul Zimmerman videos. Search for Paul Zimmerman Roses on YouTube and he will teach you everything you need to know. He is humorous too and will put you at ease about growing roses.

I think your yard is gorgeous! Can't wait to see pictures of it when it has matured a bit. You will have to post them for us.

Looks great! And, I agree that the plants growing in will soften the lines. I also love the color combo with the lavender.

I will post more photos as things progress. Our next project is on the front side of the house. We have an outside fireplace and a terrace. Next to it we are adding a wood fence with a large trellis which you can walk through. It will have antique wardrobe doors as a gate and be the entrance to the back yard. My husband has already built the trellis and I painted it. I want climbing roses to grow over top of the trellis. I will post a before picture.

What a fabulous place

I love all of your hardscape. Things will soften as the plants fill In but you have a wonderful foundation to plant around. Congratulations on your stunning home

My husband has a plan to plant wine grapes on the highest part of the slope which you can see on the far right side of this picture.

My husband has a plan to plant wine grapes on the highest part of the slope which you can see on the far right side of this picture.

I’m so jealous of your beautiful property. It’s looking fantastic and will only get better over the years as things mature.

Wanted to share photos of our latest project. I’m getting brave and trying another climbing rose. We bought a set of antique wardrobe doors and my husband made the trellis as an entry into our back garden. He also built the fence with all the tedious Oak leaf cutouts. Out house is built into a hill with the garage underneath. This is at the top of stonework terraced steps to the front door. The landscaper chose the rose. I asked for pink or yellow and as tall as possible so I didn’t have to wait so long before it grows over the top of the trellis. I am a first time rose grower and am wondering about the rose hips still being on it and if I should cut them off.

Some folks like the hips for winter interest, but I'm thinking that in zone 8a you don't get a lot of winter, and definitely not in June. The hips are the rose's seeds so if you want it to keep flowering it's best to cut off the hips. It won't hurt anything to leave them on, but it can be a signal to the rose to shut off flowering if there are a lot of them. If you regularly deadhead the rose (snap off the knob of dead bloom behind the spent petals) then it won't form hips until you're tired of deadheading and ready for winter interest and hips.

Cynthia

I love this addition to your property! Do you know what the roses are?

Vaporvac, here is the tag from the roses. The 1.5m x 1.5m is referring to the size at time of sale in this case. The maximum height should be 3.5 m.

That's a beautiful Hardy Rose with a lovely fragrance. I remember when you first posted. Please continue as the plantings mature.

James Galaway should be stunning g on your trellis.

You guys have really created an incredible palette for your gardens

Thanks everyone! We are having a fairly cool but very sunny spring/summer so far. The roses are growing very well, but the hydrangeas are going crazy. This house has been my first experience at any kind of gardening other than vegetables planted in rows. I don’t know much, but I know what I like and I have a father and son landscaping team to help me. Also, My husband is happy to do any project I ask him and is a very talented woodworker.

The landscaper also put in 5 of these. There have a very small bloom not much bigger than a quarter. Do I need to be deadheading these, too? That seems impossible.

Sheryl, what you can do with roses like the last picture is just wait till one of those clusters stops blooming and cut the whole cluster back further down on the stem. The rose is big enough that a little haircut like that won't bother it at all, and that would involve no more than a dozen pruning cuts for the blooms there. You do want to deadhead when possible because it signals the rose to keep putting out more blooms, assuming it's a repeat bloomer.

Cynthia

Sheryl May 8a if you’re still on here... will you pleeease give up a photo update with how your roses and garden is doing?

I’m considering the raspberry twirl rose you have planted among others, and would love to see and hear about how yours is doing. I’m in Southern California zone 10B.

Ann-SoCalZ10b it's Winter here in Bavaria, so there is nothing but bare canes right now. My raspberry twirl grows super fast and it sometimes gets away from me on getting the canes tied up.

Thank you for responding Sheryl. It’s 80 degrees F here today... so I forget that many other parts of the world is still experiencing snow and cold.

I can’t wait to see what it does for you in the spring.