Climbing/rambling roses

[DirtyDensDog]

Hi, I'm looking to plant a climbing rose along a north facing wall so can be quite shady.

I'm clueless with roses. Ideally would like a red or maybe pink. Evergreen would be perfect but not sure if rose climbers are evergreen. Fast growing would also be good.

It's to be grown in the ground and not in a container.

Am I looking for the impossible? 😁

Paul’s himaylan musk is a vigorous pink with a lovely scent
If you would think about creamy white Alberic Barbier grows like mad anywhere I have had it and also has a beautiful scent

Madame Alfred carriere is vigorous, good on North facing walls, beautiful and scented.

Edited as just saw you'd prefer red. It's cream with a slight pink/apricot tinge so doesn't tick that box. Beautiful though!

Thanks for replying. I would really like a red flower as it's to grow over a huge flint wall and I think that the red would look great against the grey of the flint.

Have a look at Danse de Feu. It's a red climbing rose, which is reckoned to do OK on a north facing wall.

If you look on David Austin website there's lots of advice and they're available in garden centres when you've chosen

We have veichenblau (purple) and rambling rector roses (white). Both doing well on north fence.

I've looked at the Danse de feu this morning. It was looking promising except a couple of websites say that it's brick red and that makes me think that it will have an orange tinge.

This is like the style and beauty topic but for roses !

David Austin roses are your best bet, they have really good descriptions of suitability. Our climber is pink

Crimson shower from David Austin is red.

I think I may have found the winner there.

Op, I haven’t had any luck with my north facing wall, except for shade loving plants.

roses thrive in lots of sunlight, with afternoon dappled light.

I have not had problems growing roses on north facing fence and in shade of neighbour’s bloody leylandii but I have stuck to those that David Austin says are fine in that position and all is well.

I have a climbing Handl on a north facing wall and it flowers prolifically beautiful scent too and unusual colours.

I’ve got Rosa Mundi (red and white stripes) going great guns on the N wall of our house.

I have a Souvenir du Docteur Jamain on a north facing wall that loves it there.

Maybe an option?

We have a rambling rector on a wall too but regret the choice as too vigorous so frequent pruning needed and short flowering window. How do you manage yours son it doesn't get out of control? Do you have a huge wall?

At the top of the fence towers the neighbour's bloody leylandii and Rambling Rector and Veilchenblau are romping up and nicely covering them 🙂 So vigour is not a problem but a virtue in our case. The short flowering window isn't great, I agree, though we also have climbing hydrangea on that fence which sort of takes over when the Rambling Rector stops flowering.

It's very early days as it was a Christmas gift but my Claire Austin rose is going gang busters in my very, very shaded spot it's gone in. I thought it wasn't going to make it for a while and then in the past month it's sent up lots of new side shoots, the longest of which is 30cms. Considering the awful weather and it's had maybe a gasp of sun so far in its small life, I'm hoping it's going to be a winner once the spring hits properly.

It is white though, not red.