Re: [Rose-list] Pruning Experiment

**j*@uswest.net**

Well, let's see, The house is white!! Thank Goodness.  I have put in a
dark gray deck and pergola.  I have planted Wisteria around the pergola
and one climbing rose at the front.
Jacob's Coat... pink, orangey and white.  It doesn't seem to be doing
much.  It will be interesting to see what it does this summer.  The First
Prize is away from that, and for some reason, I thought it was a paler
pink than what the photo shows.  Truly, I haven't had it long enough to
know what it will really look like.  I can put the clematis anywhere, I'm
not worried about that.  I would just like to have this huge growth
overhanging on the trellis and do something at the base to cover it.
Perhaps I should plant some shrubs in front and have this gigantic rose
thing hanging over the top?
I live in Zone 5, so I am limited on my semi-evergreens.
If you come up with something, I would love it!   It sounds like you
enjoy solving problems.
It is raining like crazy ..
Best regards,
Julie in Utah

rosenlund wrote:

> Hi Julie,
>
> Oh wow, I had a couple of Climbing First Prize on my old house.  It's
> a Hybrid Tea and grew powerfully in the few years before we moved.
> Very pretty and nice huge blooms. I would think twice on the ivy, or
> move it farther away from the rose.  What zone are you in?
>
> In mild winters the Lady Banks Rose is evergreen. (Comes in single,
> double, yellow or white.)  I have a one (double white) newly growing
> on the south side of this house.  My sister brought it from Arizona
> in early November, in mid-December we had several 10' nights, unusual
> for us.  I had her in the ground and the top all wrapped in newspaper
> and black plastic.  February I unwrapped her (when our roses begin
> awakening from dormacy) and she still had some green leaves.  She's
> moving slow, only about 2 1/2 feet tall from the 16 inches when I
> planted her. [Slow of fertilizing this year.] She should grow to 30
> feet or more here. She was a well established, potted cutting from
> the World's Largest Rose (in Tombstone) that covers 8,500 square
> feet. Wonder if you could grow that one, you wouldn't need the ivy.
>
> Hum... red climatis and peach-ish medium pink rose.... What color is
> your house?
>
> PS... oh darn, just found a zone map which says that most of Utah is
> zone 4 or 5... doubt she would be evergreen there, doubt she would
> survive as she is slightly tender in zone 7.
>
> Sincerely,
> ~Carleen~
> Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
> Zone 8  ~  Oregon
>
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