• hide the ugly fence...Entirely open to what goes in there

    A rambling rose is a good shout.

    I always recommend this one as is heavily flowering in season and produces flowers almost all of the year - we still have new buds coming out now.

    My boss and I were chatting about roses and we both agreed that buying no-name roses is a false economy. So if you do go for a rambling rose, it's worth spending the little bit extra to get one from a breeder like David Austin.

  • Cheers. Looks a distinct possibility.

    How wide do these things grow? Websites always tend to tell you height but no real indication on width.

  • How wide do these things grow?

    Bit of a late response.

    I've recently pruned them, but I'll try and take a recent pic and add one of what it looked like earlier.

    Both mine were cuttings from my dad's one that I linked. The stronger cutting in a good sunny location is now x4 fence panels wide - so ~20'(?) after 4½yrs. The weaker one in on the North side is only 1½ fence panels.

    Worth pointing out that in that time we had a new born across one of the pruning periods and were away for a year. When we came back to the UK the North side one was a mess shape wise, so was brutally pruned. My guess would be they could be 20% wider with effort.

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