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Which rose should I plant puzzle: climber in a difficult spot

DrPekeMom
10 years ago

I think I want a climbing rose for a hard spot in my garden. I have a shady north wall on the south side of my back garden, where the lovely Lyda rose has been doing her thing beautifully at the base of various passion fruits. This wall eventually runs into an old carriage house, leaving a gap of about a foot between the wall and the carriage house.

This is magnet for naughty little doggehs to go exploring, even though they can't get out, and then they come out all dirty and I don't like going back there to retrieve them. Spiders! Snakes! Scorpions! Bigfoots!

So I am thinking of putting up some (ugly) green fiberglass to functionally block the gap, but I'd like to put a rose in front of it both to screen it.

I could put another Lyda rose there, I guess, but I think I would like a climber to start in the bed that I could train against the carriage house. This poor old carriage house is old, and so I can't have any house eaters. But it's going to need to be vigorous because I appear to kill everything else.

Another issue: it's going have shade early on, but as it reaches up, it will get full southern California sun all day.

Looking also for something that won't clash overmuch with the Lyda rose, which is a pink/white.

I was thinking Claire Austin, but I don't seem to have much luck with many Austins. Any ideas?

And thanks everybody who answered my Darlow's Enigma inquiry. She's in the ground. Let's hope she turns into something!

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