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My favorite climbers are Climbing La France and Sombreuil.
Climbing Lady Hillingdon is one of the most beautiful roses that I've ever seen. The woman I knew who grew it was in zone 6b so it should do just fine in 7a provided of course you site it correctly against a south facing wall.
Reve d'Or ties with Mme. Alfred Carriere as perhaps the highest rated Noisette. You really can't go wrong with it.
Climbing Crimson Glory is a drop dead gorgeous dark red climbing rose with a fragrance to die for. Unfortunately I've read spotty reports on its vigor. It seems to do great in the Deep South and Texas, but elsewhere can be slow to establish itself.
Image of La France by Labrea-7NYC.



"Own root" means nothing when considering RMV. If the plant from which the cutting was taken is infected, the own root plant will be, too. If the original stock of the variety is infected, until it is heat treated to remove the infection, every plant produced from it will also be infected. That was the original issue with many US roses produced in the middle of the last century. You can't find an uninfected plant if all the stock was infected to build the quantity of material required to introduce the variety. It finally became such an issue that it is much less likely to find newer roses infected, but it is by no means impossible. Kim



Mine gets horrific disease, I'm sorry to say. I just got it last spring (2013), so maybe it will grow out of that. I'm adding a picture of it from last December (center pot). Brother's Grimm, Dark Night and Grandmother's Hat were the worst fungal offenders last year.


I would say with pretty good certainty that it is RR. As a mature plant, it is very thorny as Ann Cecilia pointed out, but on an immature plant with non-hardened canes, you can't really judge it solely based on that. It is definitely not Dublin Bay, nor a Rugosa.
All this said, there are a number of reds that look very similiar, but I do believe it to be an immature RR.


Lela - Good luck trying to keep the deer away. I agree about Tiffany, I've seen many blooms of this rose and it is truly gorgeous. The touch of yellow really does add to its beauty. The picture here is my best one so far, it is from my spring flush this year.



Maggie, the rose slugs are probably gone now. But if some of them are still there, washing off the underside of the leaves will get rid of them, along with the mites.
It's amazing -- but really, the most effective solution isn't a chemical . . . it's something as simple as water at high pressure.
To be truthful, this is a great deal of fun, on a hot summer day.


Thank you, but Heirloom Roses sells it (it was in stock this past spring). I just don't think I'm the only person who's been interested in this rose, and I'd like opinions and experiences from those who own or have owned it. I appreciate your suggestion, though!






Thx.will do.i spread some bone meal on top layer ,and I think that did the damage.
Actually bone meal is inert and has little effect on the soil or plant.