What can I replace my beloved climbing rose with?

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I had a beautiful, fragrant, pink climbing rose which grew on a trellis up the side of my house. It grew round my window and I absolutely loved it.
Last year I was really upset when it suddenly died almost overnight. I’ve no idea why, everything else near it was fine. It was however old, maybe 30-odd years so perhaps it was just that.
I planned to plant another rose as I loved the old one so much, but after a bit of internet research have realised that’s not going to be possible.
What can I replace it with?
The wall is brick, south facing and has a small border infront of it. The border has forget-me-nots, daffodils and amarines in it. It gets hot there. We are in the south of England.

I’m not keen on honeysuckle or jasmine as I think they get too big and don’t like the woody stems that build up over the years - I could prune my rose back to a neat framework over winter.

PS I left the old framework of the rose to see if it might have some shoots this year, but there is nothing- it’s definitely dead.

Passion Flower? I have 2 and they're fabulous. Grow very quickly.
Though it would also be lovely to train a fig tree against that wall, unless you don't like figs?
No reason really why you couldn't do both.

Wisteria would love the heat of you don’t mind the short flowering season. Otherwise I’d go for annuals like black eyed Susan for few years and then replant a rose

If you loved the rose, have another!
Either dig all the soil out and replace with new or wait a year and replant.
Plant a climbing annual for this year.
Or there are lots of lovely clematis that would like that position, just put a pathing stone over the roots, they don't like scorched feet!

You can replant with a rose but you need to a couple of other things first.

Dig out the old rose and a make a sizeable hole for the new one, moving the dug out soil elsewhere. Put a cardboard box into the hole, fill with a loam rich compost and plant the rose into that. By the time the roots reach the edges of the box, the rose re-plant disease should have gone.

I've done this many times and it works.

Genius, thank you for sharing!

How about a clematis.
Winter beauty is a gorgeous one. Evergreen. And flowers over winter.
Truly stunning.

Thanks! Some great ideas. I didn’t think you could replant a rose there.
I’m going to research all the ideas this evening.

What about campsis, the trumpet vine?

Ooooh if you are going to replant a rose, have a look at the Alexandre Girault variety from David Austin. It's amazing. I planted one in the bottom corner of my garden 3 years ago and it now covers the whole back third of my fences on both sides and flowers manically for a couple of months from about May. I love it. https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/alexandre-girault?

That looks stunning @Raquelos

The received wisdom is that you don't plant a new rose in the soil where an old rose was. But I have heard, as per Vegemiteandhoneyontoast's post, the advice that if you totally replace the soil then the wisdom is redundant.

I was trying to remember where I heard the advice (?David Austin, Peter Beales?) but have found it on the RHS website.

I’m quite excited about having something new now.

I don’t want something that grows too big so, sadly, I think the rambling rose and passion flower are out. If there was a small passion flower I would definitely have gone for that.

Currently thinking of a winter clematis (never knew there was such a thing!) and wondering if I can grow an summer flowering annual through it? Maybe something like a Morning Glory.

Yes you just have to wait op. Even six months is normally to be enough. Better still, replace the foil - it doesn’t need to be a huge area, just deep enough for the roots.

Oh I just read the useful link another post supplied and the six months seems to be cutting it too fine. But the cardboard box was a good idea!

Climbing hydrangea?
I am wary of clematis as they so often seem to get wilt and die.