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    Climbing roses

    Oct 06, 2020 4 minutes

    CLIMBING rose varieties are defined as ‘plants climbing or rambling with long sprawling or arching stems normally requiring support’. This is a broad category, including roses of moderate height that reach around 7ft (2.1m) and giants that will clamber to the top of tall trees. Ramblers consist of climbing roses with lax stems, in contrast to climbers that have stiffer stems.

    These roses grow up pillars and tripods, drape over arches and pergolas, and train against walls and fences. Most ramblers flower once only each year, whereas many climbers are recurrent flowering like the large-flowered and cluster-flowered bush roses.

    ‘Albertine’

    Like ‘Albéric Barbier’, ‘Albertine’ was raised by Barbier of Orleans, France, and it as [] as

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