oursteelers, your Veilchenblau and Arcata Pink Globe are glorious.

Same goes for your American Pillars, Fred.

And MetteBee, I love the look of Geschwind's Schonste.

Most people on this thread have probably already seen photos of my Mix of climbers, but I thought since this is a thread about climbers I should post photos here. I've just been so unexpectedly happy with the grouping that I didn't plan, that I'd recommend doing the same thing for anyone that liked the way it worked out. New Dawn is the monster climber in the mix, along with Aloha which is a shorter less vigorous climber, and Penelope rose, a hybrid musk that climbs to 8ft, a honeysuckle and a Clematis. They all bloom pretty much together for the whole month of June.

'Mel's Heritage'

'Mel's Heritage' Rose (helpmefind.com)

5 Days in the vase -- Still fragrant.

prariemoom2 - you might want to take a look at the thread "Accidental bouquets of rose bushes in the garden". Your Mix of climbers photo is EXACTLY what I was talking about when I started that thread. So glad that I saw it - it is amazingly gorgeous, and I am glad that you did not plan it - those are the most wonderful surprises.

Jackie

Thank you Jacqueline, I definitely will take a look at that thread!

It is really an area of the garden that I get a lot of satisfaction from. I didn't have vertical support but I went ahead and bought all these climbers and vines, and never got around to building trellises. So I just kept adding these to that one section in front of the fence just to 'hold them' lol. Six years later, they are still there and last year and this year, they have suddenly come into their own. And it is my favorite rose fragrance, old rose, from New Dawn. This area started blooming on May 30th and it was still producing a little fragrance this weekend with just a few blooms still open. What is delightful to me, is that I do nothing for this area. It gets watered if needed when everything else gets watered, that's it. And they grow vigorously and look very healthy without disease or insect issues. I do purposely purchase only plants that are known to be 'no spray' and very healthy. I haven't been fertilizing it or caring for them at all until this spring, I decided to add a little compost at the base. I prune off what ever is dead in the spring and never did deadhead either. On another thread, I learned that New Dawn will rebloom with deadheading, which I didn't know, so I am going to try that this year.

I like to share this story because anyone can do this if they have a spare corner somewhere. You just have to start with plants that are known to be very healthy. I didn't do anything special, it was just as you said...'accidental'.

Baby climber "Laguna"

Here is the Alchemist at Tangeled Gardens here in NS

And here is the Alchemist I rooted from a cutting last year

I absolutely love it. It is festooned with blooms and has a scent like cake and jam and licorice. It fades from apricot to yellow to baby pink. And on top of that, it's extremely cold hardy!

Alchemist was on my list at one time. Looks gorgeous! And I almost bought Laguna once and wish I did, I love that color!

Prairie Moon, is your planting in full sun or shade? Besides the Dead Heading I have found that new dawn needs sun for rebloom. Dc, that is one of the most beautiful pictures of Alchemist I've ever seen. Same for your picture of Laguna, mischievous magpie.

Vaporvac, My planting is in part sun. I think it might get between 5-6hrs of sun a day and that's it. That's another reason I've been so happy with that planting, I only have one 15x15ft bed that is full sun, so I'm very happy that I can add another rose in an area I wouldn't have expected to grow one.

That is way more Sun than my new dawn receives after its first flush so you may be good with some rebloom if you deadhead!🙃

I know the feeling for areas with limited sun. That's why I'm so glad with my gdf I posted on another thread doing so well with very limited Sun and New Dawn on my drive fence.

If I get any rebloom, i'll post some photos, Vaporvac. It's a little challenging here, we are in a full out drought and a complete water ban. I'm going to try to keep that corner up with rain barrel water.

I'm sure there are at least a few of us, who do not have a lot of full sun and feel the same. [g] Once you start growing roses the only thing makes you happier is to grow more of them. lol

I like Paul Transon. In my garden it puts out incredibly long horizontal canes that work very well on a low fence. There are laterals that tend to drape downwards which I think is pretty. It may very well go up a tree but in my garden it's sideways growth. It's also very blackspot resistant.

Veilchenblau...this one went up a tree.

Leontine Gervais

Violette

Sigh....

I know, right?

Which is the most fragrant climber?

There are many fragrant climbers. Some of my favourite include Nahema, Cl. Crimson Glory, Felicia, Bubble Bath, and Bathsheba.

Baby climber "Twilight Glow" aka Polka. Very thorny and thrips like it, but it also has a beautiful bloom that varieties in color and shape.

I’m so happy i found this thread and I love all your pictures! i love my climbers and I could use your help with identification. This rose came from a cutting from my brother-in-law’s grandmother’s garden. If she was still living she’d be 130 years old so this is not a contemporary rose. It is growing up our hedge and it’s at least 20’ tall and about 10’ wide. It’s a once bloomer, no scent, fierce thorns, small blossoms and small leaves. If anyone has any thoughts I’d appreciate it

You're going to have to attach some photos or I don't think any of us are going to be able to help you ID it.

Sorry- this is my first time posting and the pictures wouldn’t load

Where do you live? Also do you have an approximate date when his grandmother may have passed as the rose wouldn't have been planted after that.

She died around 1970 but i think she lived on a farm that had been in the family for several generations. I am in zone 6a, Midcoast Maine.

This lovely, lovely thread reminds me of my dearly departed Bleu Magenta. It took off up an adjacent mulberry tree but sadly came down with RRD and had to be removed just as it got to peak glory. Just as well, maybe, because the neighbors cut down all those trees shortly afterward so the entire scene is now just a beautiful memory. :)

Wow that's beautiful.

Labi, I love that Bleu Magenta! The color just appeals to me. There's somthing about the shade of magenta that it might look like other magenta roses, but there's just some extra zing to it! lol It looks like it is not really available right now. Too bad.

And I love 'Twilight Glow' too...and Erasmus - you have a LOT of climbers! And they are gorgeous. It's useless to single out any that are posted here, they all can easily compete with each other. Great thread.

Regarding HU's mystery climber - could it be some sort of climbing china rose? Except, of course, most chinas repeat. Sigh. Could it be related to American Pillar? Just me throwing out some names, and hoping that someone who knows more will respond. Amazing looking rose.

Jackie

Here is the listing at HelpMeFind -

Bleu Magenta

That is the dream, labi. Where do you live in Ohio??

Jacqueline- I also considered American Pillar. I think the blossom size on my rose is considerably smaller. I wonder if mine might be in the parentage of AP?

@Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley Columbus.

@prairiemoon2 z6b MA I got it from Rogue Valley Roses and they list it as available right now.

Oh, great...thanks, Labi! I'm going to check it out. I did just see the listing. Now, yours looks like a solid violet/magenta but on that site, it is multicolored from pink to violet. Did yours do that too?

Jacqueline- what do you think about Minnehaha?

HU - I think you are onto something. That is that it would appear to me that your rose is some sort of Walsh (the hybridizer) Rambler. Minnehaha is one of his, and also a rose I found in Anne Belovich's book "Ramblers and other rose species hybrids..". called Arcadia. Minnehaha's pictures in HMF are all much lighter in color, and Arcadia's blooms look way more double than those in your photos, but they are both Walsh ramblers, and get very large, and are once bloomers, so I suspect your rose is also. The very small leaves on Arcadia look exactly like the ones in your pictures. Anne B's book is in alphabetical order, without an index, and I only got through the As (pics of 300 rambler roses) when I noticed Arcadia, so I suspect that your rose might be in that book. HMF says Arcadia is only hardy to zone 6, but Anne Belovich was an expert in ramblers, and in her book she says the one in her book is the "Massachusetts clone" (so obviously more cold hardy than zone 6), and is a cross between rosa wichurana & Turner's Crimson Rambler, introduced in 1913. HMF agrees with the breeding, but says the date is "before 1906", but I would bet on Anne's information, as she personally grew every rose in her book.

If you want to get an ID, I would start a new thread - this one is so long, people may not be looking at new things on the end of it as much. If you start a new thread, with a title something like "Is This a Walsh Rambler"?, and then re-post your pictures and discussion, you will IMO, be more likely to get people to look at it who know something (or a lot) about that type of rose.

Here is a link to the info about Arcadia on HMF - just click on the top name Arcadia, and then click on "Photos".

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/plants.php?searchNmTyp=5&searchNm=Arcadia&rid=4015&sbSearch=SEARCH&tab=1

Jackie

Jackie- thanks so much! That is really helpful. You’ve given me a lot to go on. Barb

Prairie, although the effect from a distance was the deep, vivid reddish purple, my Bleu Magenta did have that wide variety of color among the blooms -- and it often had swirls of white in the individual blooms, too. My photo is definitely poor, but also I think that even good photos don't convey how pretty this rose is in person. The other great thing about it is that it's really healthy - the foliage looked good all season without a speck of attention from me, even as it was growing about 80% in the shade. Only drawback for me is its lack of scent.

@labi_OHz6, going a bit OT here... what other roses do well for you? Do you spray? I live a couple hours south in Cincinnati and am always looking to hear what others nearby grow. I dont spray due to laziness and too many roses, so I look for health.

Prairie, here is my Bleu Magenta.

Wow Shelia! That is so gorgeous! Again, there's just something about that color! And all the different shades really work well together. and of course you have that great wall as a backdrop and in the first photo, the way it's formed makes it look even better. Thanks for posting that. You must enjoy it!

Beautiful!

Unbelievably gorgeous

What an incredible color Sheila, WOW WOW!

Wowza! That's amazing.

Sheila how old is your Bleu Magenta?

Oursteelers, several years old by now. It just gets better and better.

About how big do you think it is?

Not that wide probably 12 ft tall than flops over as you see in the photos. That was one plant on both sides of the wall.

New baby rambler Himmelsauge arrived today and got potted up 💜