Why are my climbers not flowering?

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I’m a novice gardener, we got our garden done up last year and they put in some new climbers. One was, I think, some sort of climbing rose and it looks healthy enough. Though I only just took away the canes and tried to train against the fence. Hasn’t flowered in 2 summers (pic 1).

The one on our trellis died so I bought a new Solanum Glasnevin at the garden centre a bout 3 weeks ago. So far so good, it has grown some new shoots and seems healthy, but no sign of any flowers. Am I missing something to do with pollination or something? Anything I can do to encourage flowers? Both have been fed with miracle gro (specialist rose one and a multipurpose one).

I think if any perennial plant flowers the first year it's a bonus rather than a given. Did it have buds on when you bought it? It migt be optimistic to expect them to form now if it is summer/autumn flowering, but you never know.

I don't know that particular plant (looks pretty, though) but I would feed and water it well this year and let it settle, and hopefully it will put on a show next year.

Btw multipurpose feed can discourage flowers- they put the energy into luxuriant foliage instead, as I learnt this year with my cosmos. A tomato feed is better.

Thank you @DDemelza, that is the kind of experience I was hoping someone on here would have. No buds when I bought it but it did say that it flowered “from June until first frosts” so I was hopeful not too late in the season.

Any ideas for the other one, which has gone through 2 seasons with no flowers?

Climbing roses like their stems arched over horizontally. This encourages them to put out vertical stems that produce the flowers.
Rose feeding is best done in the spring and after the first flush of flowers, if it is a repeat flowering variety.
Can you identify the rose? Some only flower once in the season.

Thanks. No idea what rose it is, or even if it is a rose, to be honest. The leaves look very different to my non-climbing rose but I was fairly sure the gardener said it was one when he redid the garden.

We had a honeysuckle that did nothing because it wasn't getting enough sun where I had planted it. I moved it into a pot in a different place and it was like a new plant.

Hard to tell from that picture, but the first one does not look like a rose. Have you got more of a closeup of the leaves/stems?

@RestorationInsanity thanks. Yes, here’s one. They do have jagged edges.

Pretty sure that's a rose. Not only does it have the compound leaves made up of oval leaflets arranged pinnately (on opposite sides of a central rib) it has the stipules - little leafy appendages at the base of the main stem of the leaf - that most of the rose family (and all the roses) have.

Agreed, the close up photo leaves little (no doubt).

You can download PlantSnap app for free, it's pretty good, you only pay for extras, no idea what they are, I've never needed them. Some plants like to take a couple of years to settle in.

Thanks @MereDintofPandiculation for a beautifully academic reply and also @RestorationInsanity.

@Flatpackback I tried plantsnapp a couple of years ago when it first came out to try and identify many plants that were in the garden when we moved to this house. It was great to begin with then they got totally overwhelmed and were taking weeks to identify plants so I got bored and gave up. I’m surprised to hear it’s still going.

Weeks ? Yikes, no wonder you gave up with it. It's instant now, mind you I've only used it on 4-5 things that have been in the garden for years but didn't know the names of. I'd say it's worth another shot, it's free so might be useful.