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When the roses started to climb, they changed their live completely. Under large bushes they tried to stretch their flowers to the light. On the way up to the sun they had to hook their thorns in branches and knots. The own shrub lost its sustaining function and all the vigour was put its branches. The climbing roses did not only change their growth habit but their location too and started growing at the border of the forest instead of open areas.

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Young plants can even grow in the shade but their flowers need the sun. Ideal locations in our gardens are walls in Southeast or Southwest direction, so that they can avoid the wind of the west and the burning midday sun. In the warm light of the evening sun the colours are shimmering warm and soft.

Even if climbing roses are very vigorous, they can also be planted in small gardens. Their height and width can be directed by their supple laterals. Those long and arching or creeping laterals will tempt people to “play”. They can weave rose bows, fences and trellis with their canes. They will climb pergolas and will provide a coat of flowers like a roof. Curiously they surmount walls to spread their flowers on the sun warmed stones. Some varieties have more tough and erected canes which are suitable to build pyramids or bowers for “sleeping beauties”.
When they do not find something to climb they let their canes creep on the ground or provide their blooms in cascades over stones. Therefore cascade roses is a better name than weeping rose for climbing roses grafted on stems.

Planting information: The planting distance varies due to individual growth: for vigorous varieties 2 m, for not so vigorous ones at least 1 m.

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