Climbing rose for a pot/ troff/ trough that is thornless and easy to look after

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Okay, probably a big ask.

It needs to scramble over a fence area - south facing garden and this part gets morning sun and then dappled shade - except for full summer when it would receive much more sun. It can only be planted in a tub of some sort due to the concrete there. It can be a large tub.

Fence height is low - 5ft- so would want the blooms my side instead of the path behind - but I want screening for this area where I can’t plant in ground.

Any advice/ ideas? Or if you think I should plant something different?

Thanks all

Actually- the aspect is mostly south facing

So nice for roses methinks - does have to be in some sort of container and get to 6 foot

Thanks

Have a look on the David Austin website as he has a whole section of thornless ramblers.
www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/specific-situations/thornless

Look at something called a Minniehaha. I’ve grown it over a fence (south facing) and it looked gorgeous. I grew it in the ground but I’ve also seen it grown in a (very large) pot at the rose nursery where I buy my roses.

Sorry! Just seen you want thornless. The Minniehaha is not

I'd also recommend David Austin. I'm actually not a fan of rose bushes. Probably as I bought a house with many elderly ones in the garden and quite frankly when out of bloom they don't look very nice, leggy with few leaves and loads of thorns,. Cutting them back does no good, they love it and come back bigger than ever, but not in better condition, and rhy really are quite dangerous.

However, on a whim, I bought a David Austin rambler from our garden centre and it's gorgeous, bushy, full of repeat blooms, and nothing at all like the bare leggy thorny older ones.

Just bought a D Austin climber 'Claire Austin' - it's got nice smelling flowers and very few thorns. Am potting it up tomorrow!

Banksaie Lutea is the best thornless rose. It grows really fast is thornless and very easy to train. It has a wonderful perfume and flowers very early. I would plant it with a late flowering Alpina Clematis for year round olour

@Minkies11 Claire Austin is GORGEOUS!

I think as a pp said, the problem with bush roses can be when they get leggy. It drives me mad seeing gardens with umpteen spindly old roses in them and nothing underneath but bare soil! 🙈

If you want pink, this one is often recommended

www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/zephirine-drouhin

(It is available elsewhere that's just the first hit I got)

Zephirine Drouhin is my favourite rose of all time, but it's a bloody massive fast growing climber.

I have an abundance rose in a pot which has practically thornless canes (in their first year).

Stupid question but what do these roses look like in winter? What do you do to prune? I'm about to put a pergola in and trying to decide what to grow over it, thought about a clematis or poss Rose, then something like a honeysuckle. I want perfume and interest through the seasons if poss.

I doubt that is really possible, pumping. While some climbers are evergreen, most of not all will need pruning at some point in the year on a pergola.

If you try to get all round interest by combining different climbers, you may end up with a bit of a mess .... speaking from experience of having climbers which need pruning at different times of the year.

If anyone knows combinations which do work well I'd love to know!

Summer jasmine is perfect. It keeps its leaves in the winter and loses them inthespring just before it flowers. Very easy to care for just prune it slightly in autumn. Plant it with a spring flowering Clematis.. not the Montana types as they are too vigorous. Same with a honeysuckle too much work and flower the same time as the Jasmine. You could also do sweet peas climbing nasturtium while waiting for the others to establish.