Right you genius gardening types. I need this plant in my life. Here's a "what the hell is this" thread.

[TattyDevine]

So. I have bush envy.

What is this magnificent creation.

It's in pots, but climbs up a neighbours house on a trellis thing.

I need it in my life, preferably without having to buy my neighbours house.

It's not in my street so she won't know I've shamelessly copied!

Help!

Looks like a climbing rose.

Definitely a climbing rose.

I'd take the picture to a garden centre and ask them to recommend a similar rose. Or just have a browse!

Lovely climbing rose - try the David Austin website to find one that will work for where you want to put it (esp sun vs shade).

That’s a climbing rise of some description. Looks a lot like David Austin Maid of Kent: www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/maid-of-kent
But there are many many pink climbing roses to choose from!

www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/type/climbing-roses

Also look at Harkness Roses: www.roses.co.uk/pot-grown-roses/climbing-roses you’ll need a pot grown one if you want to plant it now.

Ooh thank you all. I'll do some browsing round!

I have Maid of Kent in my garden. It is in a half sun half shade spot, and flowers all summer. It looks very similar indeed but there are so many pink climbing roses. Would you be brave enough to ask the home owner? If someone knocked on my door and asked what a plant was I would happily tell them.

That's a beauty. Anyone who's in the Midlands and loves roses, I recommend a visit to the David Austin nursery at this time of year. Beautiful gardens, most of the roses in flower, its lovely. Its free. It's worth it.

Welltidy I actually did wind my window down and ask her but she didn't know - I suspect she inherited it with the house! I think it might be the David Austin Maid of Kent as it has that cabbagy peony type heavy look about the flowers ...

A Lot of the David Austin roses have that cabbagey peony type heavy look. It's typical of very old rose varieties, then in the 50s rose fashion went over to hybrid teas (the classic 'bunch of red roses" shape) and the less shapely but more floriferous floribundas, both of which had the advantage over the older roses that they were "repeat flowering" - a good flowering in June and then scattered flowering through the rest of the season. David Austin was a fan of the old fashioned type, and their perfume, and from the 70s on bred "old fashioned" roses that were repeat flowering - a real pioneer in the rose world. So looking through his website or, better still, his nursery, is a good idea if that's the shape of rose you like.

Ooh, OP, now you've mentioned peonies, Claire Austin (daughter of David) is a peony specialist and has many varieties for sale.