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    Climbing roses for small gardens

    Nov 30, 2021 3 minutes

    AT the height of summer, you can never have enough roses. Their buxom, colourful flowers celebrate the season and fill the air with scent. In the average small garden, where space is tight, there are only so many shrub roses you can fit into borders, so the best way to squeeze in as many roses as possible is to grow short climbers and ramblers.

    The likes of ‘Soleil Vertical’ (a yellow modern climber) and ‘Strawberry

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