If you grow roses, you know that the first bloom each spring always boasts the largest, most gorgeous blooms! It is a beautiful time in the gardens. I have more than thirty roses in various garden areas, hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, shrub roses, climbers, and a miniature too. Many of them are about thirty years old, and doing well.
I added a new climber a few years ago to grow on an arch in the front yard. When I looked back at my planting records, I saw it was actually seven years ago. My, how the years go by so quickly! Sally Homes is a lovely old-fashioned looking rose, with single blooms which start out pinkish, and open more fully to white.
I am loving this newer rose! It is light on thorns, very disease and pest resistant, and has been easy to train on the arch. I must admit though, climbers take quite some time to prune in the spring, giving thought to where to prune as you train it to your trellis or support system. When this rose bloomed this year, the blooms were larger than ever! I don’t know why.
..fertilizer, and other care was the same as previous years.
Perhaps it was the generous rain over the winter. At any rate, you can tell by the photo that the blooms were in clusters as big as balloons. Very magnificent! It has bloomed every year, but these were certainly larger than normal.
At the same time I planted the climber, I had purchased several other roses. These newer roses have been developed to be more disease resistant, less thorny, with frequent.
