Please recommend 2 roses to go up an arch

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We’re planning to erect a simple wooden rectangular arch to go from the gravel pit area to the greenhouse/veg area. We have recently added cattle troughs for pond plants either side of the path if that makes any difference.

The arch will be painted black & we’re planning wooden posts screwed together - maybe 7-8ft high. I’m a fan of David Austin & would like lots of flowers & highly scented if possible! Please recommend me your favourites, or offer alternative advice - many thanks 😁

Generous Gardener by DA - beautiful rose

Banksaei Lutea. This is mine at the moment. It stretches 30feet. It is highly scented and thornless so easy to train. Team it with a later flowering rose for a continuous display. This flowere from April to ma

Any of the David Austin ramblers. The labels are really helpful and tell you what height they will grow to and ideal positions, eg wall, pergola, arch. I have loads of DA roses, total addict. If you know the height of your arch and the colour scheme you want you’ll be spoiled for choice.

Here is a good list-you can even tick what size arch in the filters

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/collections/climbing-and-rambling-roses

The David Austin ones are all lovely. Munstead Wood has a particularly lush scent.

I have an arch with a Generous Gardener either side. It's wonderful

Ooh thanks all, look forward to rating these & making a shortlist tomorrow! 💚

Generous gardener is lovely. Gertrude Jekyll has a wonderful old-rose scent. The pilgrim is a wonderfully floriferous sherbet-lemon yellow, not quite so fragrant though.

… but you can also call David Austin and they can give you suggestions depending on aspect etc.

Sorry to jump on but for an arch do you need 2 roses,one on either side, or just 1 and train it up and over and down?

Gertrude Jekyll is beautiful, lovely scent. Climbing rose would be better for the space, rambling roses get out of control very quickly !

Zepherine Drouhin. Not a fancy rose at all but a glorious pink that flowers almost non stop till the frosts and beyond. Ours was bought from a suoermarket about forty years ago. You know the sort in the plastic packets.
i chose it for our pergola because it is thornless and I had young children at the time. It always gets admired and commented on.

David Austin Rambling Rector!

https://www.facebook.com/share/167yoYdN2E/?mibextid=wwXIfr

My DA generous gardener is such a disappointment. But I absolutely love strawberry hills. Gorgeous colour and it keeps flowering. Scent is myrthy and strong.

I could probably get away with one rose but I’m quite greedy when it comes to plants so I’ll want 2.

we have Gertrude Jekyll, Boscobel, Wildeve & Agatha Christie elsewhere in the garden. So many choices.

thanks for the tip about calling DA-I may do that also, not quite sure about aspect as depends on what way you look at it!

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I should never have opened instagram. I’ve just bought six roses 🤦🏻‍♀️

Another vote for Strawberry Hill. So glad I chose her 2 years ago, prolific large pink blooms and a second flush in August.

Another vote for R. banksiae 'Lutea' which flowers April/May and the tiny yellow puffball flowers smell of violets so extends the season.

If you like yellow roses Goldfinch has lovely semi-double flowers that start out yellow and fade through cream to white, not thornless but near thornless.

If you like a big show, R. filipes 'Kiftsgate' is glorious and available at DA

I like the semi-doubles as they are still useful to pollinators.

Trevor White Roses has an excellent selection of roses (I have no connection other than being a customer), some really unusual ones too. https://www.trevorwhiteroses.co.uk/

Ghislaine de feligonde is a star repeat climber (technically small rambler?) that was my most successful DA rose.

We have 'wedding day' across our archway.

I personally am dithering between blush noisette, wild eve and lady of the lake so if anyone wants to opine on those I’d be grateful for your experiences!

You will need a rose for each side otherwise one side of your arch is going to be bare at the base as roses don’t like growing downwards (their branches want to find the sun). You want a rose that grows to about the height of your arch - so one that has 10-12ft as its mature size. Some of the rambling roses like rambling rector and banksia lutea are too large for an arch however lovely they look. You’ll find yourself having to constantly cut them back ( and loose flowers as a result). David Austin’s website allows you to filter your search to find one suitable for growing up an Arch.

I have a few DAs, all beautiful.

I have a similar shaped “arch” and have a penny lane rise just recently planted- seems to be growing well

Another vote for generous gardener