Climbing roses are a charming, romantic addition to any outdoor space. Whether you're designing and planting the perfect cottage garden or you simply want to cover up a dull corner of your yard, these ...

Climbing roses serve a functional purpose while adding color, texture, and beauty to a landscape. Most types of rose bushes grow like shrubs, but these climbers can be trained to screen for privacy, ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...

These vigorously growing climbing roses create old-fashioned cottage charm. Climbing roses (Rosa setigera) add old-fashioned cottage charm to your Southern garden. Vigorous and relatively easy to grow ...

If you haven't tried growing climbing roses in your garden, then you are missing out on some of the most beautiful, versatile plants and design features. Whether arching over a gate or arbor, or ...

Question for Dan Gill: I have a climbing rose I'm attempting to train on a wrought iron fence. I need some advice on how and when to prune and the best way to train this rose. --Charlotte Webster ...

Our resident gardener has shared his top tip for training climbing roses horizontally to 'alter hormone signals' and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

August is the month many of us do this. Exceptions include the old-fashioned roses that flower only once, in spring, on last year’s wood: old wood. Prune them around November, after flowering. Those ...

Although the winter months sees garden growth slow down, there are still plenty of jobs for gardeners to be doing, including pruning climbing roses. According to Gardeners’ World, if climbing roses ...

Rose ancestry is older and even more confusing than the British royal families. When a plant has been bred and rebred, crossed and recrossed, swiped, stolen and traded for 2,000 years, the offspring ...