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Hello. New here from the Ozarks and looking to get my first roses, and have come here for some suggestions. I thank you in advance and appreciate any help you may give.
I have approx 200 feet of rock retaining wall that is mostly about 2ft tall, with a section up to 4ft tall. I would like to use the climbing type of roses that will run the length of this wall. I understand that it will take several plants and they will have to be trained. Are there any particular ones that you recommend for such a low height structure?
I also understand roses prefer to grow 'up'. Can some be trained to droop over and down if planted on top of the retaining wall vs planting them at the base?
I would really like to use roses, but if this is not an arrangement they would thrive with, I understand and will search out alternatives.
Most of the wall will have a shade time, sometime during the day. The rock wall that is about 4ft tall and runs about 40ft in length is the one area that will be in full sun from sun-up to sun-down.
Again, thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Have a Blessed day.
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#1 of 5 posted
4 MAY 22 by
 Lee H.
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Hi, I can only give one personal recommendation…’Red Cascade’. It is naturally procumbent (but can be trained as a climber), and can easily create a 12 ft diameter octopus groundcover in just one season in zone 6. I would suggest you try the advanced search feature, where you can search roses by their habit (arching, spreading, etc.) and growing uses (beds and borders, ground cover, etc). Might at least give you some ideas.
OK, is that Malibu a small block motor? :-)
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#2 of 5 posted
4 MAY 22 by
72Malibu
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Since these roses will be the very first of my gardening adventure, I was unsure when using the advance search if what it showed me would work. Thank you, I’ll look into those.
I’m running a 355
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#3 of 5 posted
4 MAY 22 by
Lee H.
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Nice! Well, I know there are at least two gearheads who also grow roses around here. I’m a “hot rod Lincoln” kinda guy.
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#4 of 5 posted
5 MAY 22 by
72Malibu
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Guess we got in trouble with the pics, huh? Beautiful Lincoln. About 1940-41 or so ?
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Actually, there are some gearheads here at HMF that are equally impressed(!) with this beauty but we have learned, the hard way, relaxing our gardening-photos-only rule creates problems.
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