If you’re growing a rose against a north facing wall..

[Crazzzycat]

If you’re growing roses against a north, or north east facing wall can you tell me how floriferous they are?

And if you have one that does well, can you tell me what variety it is?

I’ve been looking at the David Austin website and they clearly think that some varieties do ok in these conditions, but I’m just a little bit sceptical 🙈

Can anyone persuade me otherwise?

I have Vischenblau, Banksaei Lutea and The Fairy all doing well on north facing wall. I am in London though, with a small sheltered garden.

I’ve a golden showers growing in a very large planter against a North facing wall. It does flower well in its first flush of the season, but subsequent flowers tend to be a bit sparse.

Last Autumn I planted Generous Gardener along the same wall, so I’m waiting to see what that does.

We have two ramblers (David Austin) up a north facing wall and they are doing fabulous- they are two years old off root stocks and already about 10ft high and trailing along jute swags. Doing really well. - I’ll double check which they are in the morning and take photos for you!

Oh wow, sounds like growing a rose against a north facing wall might work better than I thought!

The Generous Gardener is one of the roses I have my eye on @Beebumble2 . It looks absolutely gorgeous on the David Austen website, although in all fairness most of their roses are quite photogenic 😄

I’ll google the roses you mentioned @FLOrenze. It’s really good to know they’re doing well for you.

And I’d love to know what that rambler is @Shadowboy . The wall I’m trying to cover is HUGE, so a rambler would not be a bad idea!

Madam Alfred Carriere. Slow at the start then did really well.

Same Mme Alfred Carriêre. Hardly flowered for the first year and had bad greenfly first two. Since then a joy

Banksaei Lutea is perfect for covering a big expanse. It grows a mile a minute, flowers really early, April and May and is sweetly perfumed. Best of all, it has no thorns so is easy to prune and does not form a tangle. It does not flower much in the first year, as it is busy putting down its roots, but after that it is wonderful.

I would plant it with a late flowering rose for a longer display. I also have dark blue alpine clematis which go well with it. TheY flower mid summer and go on till December.

One word about Vischenblau, because it is blue the colours look a bit naff when then start to fade.

On our N facing house wall we have Rosa Mundi (Rosa gallica versicolor), a striped red and white heritage rambler. It has spread from where it was planted near the front door right around he bay window to the edge of the house, and is smothered with flowers every year. It's not a repeat flowerer though.

@Crazzzycat so the two we have are: The Albrighton Rambler and Malvern hills. Malvern hills has small orange/peach flowers and the rambler is just delightful- huge pink complex roses.

I forgot to say the image of the flowers is last year. They are just about to flower now. I adore them. This is their size this year at 2 years old... there is a cherry blossom in the middle but they are about 10 foot and climbing along the swags.

Another vote for Mme Alfred Carriere. She does very well for me and is in shade of a good proportion of the day, from mid morning onwards.

Thanks for all the suggestions! And @Shadowboy those roses look gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing