No rose garden is truly complete without including climbing roses into the mix of rose species.  The climbing rose is not really a vine and is also referred to as a rambler, trailing rose and everblooming rose.  With successful rose planting, remember they don’t grow their own support structures and do not instinctively attach themselves to surfaces.  They create a grand entrance to your rose garden, patio or bakyard when growing over the gated entrance. The climbing rose needs to be trained to grow in a vine-like manner and will require a bit of attention.

The grower can loosely attach the plant to a structure or wind it through the structure.  With a little imagination, you can create a beautiful effect on a garden wall, fence, over a gate or almost anywhere you decide.  You will see more blooms on  climbing rose bushes that is trained to grow on a fence rather than up a wall. 

Climbing roses that have been attached to a grow up wall will produce short spurts of blooms.  A climbing rose will require the similar tending as your other roses.  For instance, the amount of sunlight they need is the same.  Even climbing roses that are said to do well in the part shade still need about four to five hours of direct sunlight a day. 

When planning to grow climbing roses in your garden, take into consideration the height or length that these types of roses will grow to.  Some varieties have grown as large as thirty feet high.  Some may only reach seven feet.  Be sure the structure that you are planning to grow them on can support this type of plant.

The height of the plant will also depend on the type of climate you have in your area.  Another thing to consider is which type of climbing rose is going to suit your garden.  Some types of climbing roses will produce beautiful roses all year round.  Then there are those that may only produce flowers in the spring. 

One thing that is different when tending your climbing rose is that it does not need to be pruned as often.  Most importantly, the climbing rose should not be pruned during the first two years.  This is because, contrary to other roses, if a climbing rose is pruned often it will have less blossoms. 

With rose bush care, you can get away with pruning their climbing roses every three or four years.  Even then, pruning consists of removing small canes and old or less vigorous canes at the base of the plant.  Vigorous young canes are encouraged to grow and to become long and flexible.  Owners will have an easier time training these canes through and onto structures.

The thing to remember with climbing roses is that you have to be patient.  This type of rose takes some time to get rooted and grounded before you begin to see an abundance of blossoms.  In time you will have a beautiful trellis, fence or arbor just filled with beautiful rose blossoms.