How to Grow Climbing Roses Part 1

Patti, the Garden Girl, host of the national PBS show Farmers Almanac TV shows how to brighten up your home and keep it fresh with climbing roses.

(Music Playing) When I first move to Roxbury, I noticed that many of the houses in the neighborhood have this climbing rose. So I preferred to call it as the Roxbury Rose since then. When I moved to this property, I saw that I have my own Roxbury Rose here. It had been very, very much neglected for a long time. And as you can see, a lot of the bottom area is void of any rose buds or any new shoots. A great companion plant, two roses, is this beautiful Clematis here and I planted two Clematis plants. One of them is already flowered and it flowered much earlier than this one right around April. What I did to my Roxbury Climbing Roses is a bed of perennial flowers. I have got forget-me-nots here that I started from seed. I have Lupin. I have got a bunch of Hollyhock, and just a variety of different perennial flowers. In terms of maintaining your climbing roses, what you want to do is once the rose bushes bloom that is when you can start pruning it. I have got my pruning sheers here and the first this that I want to do is I am going to start off by just taking out these sections that did not grow any flowers. In the process of trimming your climbing roses wherever you want them, you can want to securely tie them to your trellis or fence or whatever you are growing it on. I just loop this string and then pull it through. And this does is it secures it really, really well to be fenced and then, I have to do is thread this through and tie it off. This rose smells amazing. Now having these Roxbury roses growing on my house, inspired me to take a step further. Few years ago, I built a lettuce fence along one side of my property and I have been growing a bunch of different varieties of climbing roses. Let us go and take a look. I am Patti the Garden Girl. Thanks for watching! (Music Playing)