Rose suggestions:

**"Saxton, Susan" SSaxton@schwabe.com>**

> Suggestions please:  We have been remodelling
> and the porch is almost done.  I need ideas for climbers
> or ramblers to grow up the East end of the porch.
> The bed is only 1 foot deep by about 8 foot long -
> really narrow.  Something that bloomed most of the
> summer with only half day sun would be nice.  

Ghislane de Feligonde would suit your purposes.  Soft fragrance, surely not
powerful.  Sweet, darling, 1 1/2 flowers that grow in clusters, starting out
as tiny peach buds, opening peachy and then going toward yellow and cream as
they fade.  The effect of all colors at once is truly charming.  Everyone
who has ever seen it in my garden ran out and got one. Rarely out of bloom.
Nearly thornless.  A rambler, so nice, long flexible growth.  Mine is
growing on my north fence and has fierce competitors for light, nutrients,
water (winter honeysuckle and a lilac on either side) and doesn't so much as
blink about the adversity.  No disease, either.

Another suggestion is Souv. du Dr. Jamin, indescribable port wine color,
sweet 2", perfectly formed flowers.  Great fragrance.  Not really thornless,
but not lethal, either.  Not completely disease free here until after first
flush.  We have terribly wet springs in Oregon.

Casino is a yellow climber new to me but the flowers were beautiful, lemon
yellow with a nice scent.  Can't comment on much else yet.

Or how about Abraham Darby or Reine de Violette?  Both are short climbers,
to about 8-10', Abe is peachy pink/yellow (sunset-ish) with a fabulous
fragrance.  Reine de V is a beautiful muted purple, nice fragrance and
thornless.  Abe has a few prickles, as would be appropriate I suppose (in
thinking of the President).  Both are rarely out of bloom and pretty disease
free. 

For really good coverage, you might combine two of these, like Abe and Reine
de V.  The colors together would be awesome.  Plant them about 4' apart from
the center I'd say.

IF you plant one of the roses with smaller flowers with a companion, make
sure the companion choice does not have too large a flower -- might look
like a "Mutt and Jeff" planting.

Another alternative is a larger growing rose with a clematis, or even a once
bloomer with a clematis, for constant color.

Now if you'd only go for pink roses, I'd have even more to say...

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