What’s your most beautiful climbing rose?

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I’ve reached the end of the line with Madame Alfred Carriere. She is just too big for the arbour I have and attempts to prune it to size result in rampant leafy growth and few flowers. I’m going to replace it.
Do you have any recommendations for a rose that grows to about 10 - 12 ft that does well for you? Yellow probably wouldn’t work, but any other colour would. If it repeat flowers that would be great.

Thank you all so much for your suggestions. I grow Buff Beauty as a shrub @BestIsWest and I love it too. That peachy colour is so pretty. It’s good to know that it will also work as a climber.
I also have Iceberg as a shrub and wondered whether the climbing version was also good @LBOCS2 , so thanks for the info. I have leather gauntlets!
Lots of love for Gertrude Jekyll I see.

This is encouraging - I've just started planting roses - so far I have these climbing or rambling roses (but they're very small atm):
Mary Delaney (DA)
The Generous Gardener (DA)
Bridge of Sighs (Harkness)
Ginger Syllabub (Harkness)
The Simple Life (Harkness)
Ruby Rambler
Little Rambler

Bridge of Sighs is very delicate. Agree that Mary Delaney doesn't last long.

That's what I pulled out and replaced. Mine was a rambler so flowered once all season - yes prolific - but I felt it was 6 weeks of flowering and I wanted a longer season. I had Albertine (?) in the same bed and rambling rector dominated. Whereas my newer ones - climbers - flower a lot more, grow well but I still have 3 in that bed.

Albertine is lovely, nothing quite that colour

Second this. Mine is beautiful this year, despite me constantly battling black spot.
It's bloomed since the beginning of July and still has buds.

Likewise it repeats flowers and in monsters too like 4 or 5 on a branch like a bouquet. It's so lovely 😍

Your is so amazing, my one is still young but this year is basically grown over a metre as it nownrwaches the top of the fence!

@Spectre8 mine is on its third year now, so yours should get better and better!

I’ve come back to this as I’ve just accidentally cut down a climber. It was struggling anyway. I want one that will initially go in a pot -we’re doing some work over the next year or so and it would have to be moved. Would Gertrude Jekyll be ok in a pot?

I've got a Paul's Scarlet in a pot at the moment. Its a climber. Seems to be doing well. Got it from Tesco, in Spring 2023, as a bare root plant, for £3.

This is Handel - it’s been in the garden over 20 years so probably isn’t a prolific flowerer like modern roses but very pretty

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I have this rose up the north side of our new house it’s lovely but I am yet to identify it

The most beautiful rose - the blooms are candy pink and the scent is strong, old fashioned Turkish delight.

I’ve had great success with the rose New Dawn. It’s a beautiful climber, reaches about 10-12 ft, and repeat flowers throughout the season. The soft pink blooms might be just what you're looking for, and it’s quite manageable size-wise.

@dekuw thanks for the info on New Dawn. It does look very pretty and would go well with the plants around it.
And thanks to everyone else. I’ve really enjoyed seeing all your beautiful roses. I’m a huge rose fan and would happily fill the whole garden with them.

I planted a new rose this year, Wollerton Old Hall, and it's done really well in a sunny spot. It's heavily scented, has light apricot flowers and is repeat flowering. Grew to about 6 foot this year but max height is 12 ft.

I also planted Mme. Alfred Carrière but put her in a very shady spot so she's taken a bit longer to get going, she's about 3 ft and we're just getting the first buds now.

Both planted as bare root plants in February.

JaninaDuszejko, that's interesting about Wollerton Old Hall - I have one, about 3 years old, and the blooms have been really sparse. It's also in a sunny spot. I'll persevere.

Incidentally Wollerton Old Hall Gardens are absolutely beautiful - we were there in May. Well worth a visit if you haven't been.

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New Dawn does well everywhere. All the David Austin climbers. I also have an Italian rose (will share the name if I can find it) that has the most elegant sprays of blooms.

if you have a pale rose adding a clematis creates a beautiful contrast.