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Re: [SG] Solutions & Question

From my limited knowledge of such stuff (I am no expert!), there are no
roses that are climbers in the true sense of the word.

There are three fundamental ways for vines to climb: suckers, tendrils &
twining.  Most ivy's use suckers, little "pads" that attach themselves to
whatever they're climbing.  Grape vines use tendrils, little growths that
come out of the vine & wrap themselves around something.  Morning Glories &
Clematis appear to twine; the stem of the plant grows in a spiral around
the support, such as a wire or a string.

No roses do anything like that.  The only way "climbing" roses attach
themselves to things like an arbor or trellis is for folks like us to put
the cane up there and tie it to the support with a twist-tie or some
string.  Thus, "climbing" roses don't "climb" in the true sense of the
word, they just grow really long canes that lend themselves to being tied
up to a fence or an arbor.

-- Lew
Atlanta, GA
Zone 7a

At 11:45 AM 5/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In our paper this morning in the horticulture section it stated ' there
are no
>such
>species, as a climbing rose bush, just leggy rose bushes'. I have several
rose
>bushes that climb and are very full. Is the statement true??
>
>Jennifer Sheppard
>N. Louisiana
>zone 8
>
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 Lew Jansen
 lewj@mindspring.com
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