My Rose Arbor Has Arrived!

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 07, 2005 11:47 pm

I'm so happy. I have my very first rose arbor. It's white vinyl and came unassembled. I hope to grow morning glories on it this year and then plant a climbing rose next year. It's 87" H x 63" W x 41" D.

Deb118 · Post by **Deb118** » Mar 08, 2005 11:37 pm

Your going to love it, covered with roses! I have 8 climbing roses on my Pergola and it's heavenly, walking through it

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 09, 2005 12:41 am

Deb, are you serious? How absolutely wonderful. You must have an awesome landscape!

Should I plant one climbing rose on each side? The sides will be on the south and north, so I'm not sure about the north side. I'm not sure how to grow roses either but I've got to learn.

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » Mar 09, 2005 3:50 am

Ask Deb what kind of climbing roses she has.......go ahead...ask!

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Mar 09, 2005 9:12 am

Oh, I would love to have a rose arbor! I have several climbing roses around, but I don't have an arbor..trellises, and a hayfeeder that I turned on it's side to make an entrance to my 'secret' garden, but no arbor.
Show us some pics when you get it in place!
OED..that sounds like a threat, so I won't ask!!!!

Linda P

Deb118 · Post by **Deb118** » Mar 09, 2005 11:37 am

OH, Linda! That turned out really nice! I was actually eyeing one of those the other day in someones horse pasture

, and had the same idea!

Dont mind Bob

He LOVES giving me a hard time..... about my roses

Which, BTW.... are RED ones

Some of them, I dont know which kind they are... dug up and passed on to me. 2, I know for sure are Climbing Blaze, and the other 2, I forgot

I originally had Red and White ones, but the white ones died

Here's a couple shots of the Pergola, taken last year. It was the first REAL year for it. We built it in 2003.

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 09, 2005 8:26 pm

Great pics !! That funny good looking round thing is that what you call a hayfeeder ? looks good, think they are more boring here

Midnight Reiter
If you can find the roses you like to plant, go plant them this year and the morning glories too, the roses need a year or two for take off. Most roses can take more shade than we think they can, only thing they do like to be dry before they take their night nap, so do not plant them a very damp all afternoon place, and do not sprinkle water on them just before night time. So just find some healthy roses for your zone and some who are fitting

for the arbor
Pia

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 09, 2005 11:59 pm

Pia, I'd love to plant 'Constance Spry,' but don't roses like good soil and morning glories like poor soil?

Deb, I'm impressed! We can't build our own things.

Man, I'm fifty-eight and never had anything to grow vines on besides the mailbox. I don't even know how to grow roses. But I can't go to my grave without having tried. We don't have a fence and can't afford one.

For those of you who want pics, I'll have to get my daughter's help. I don't know how to post pics.

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » Mar 10, 2005 12:13 am

Deb's red ones and white ones.

MR, good catch on the different soil requirements for roses and morning Gs.. THINK clematis and roses.

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » Mar 10, 2005 8:30 am

Congrats on your new arbor, MR! I'm sure it will look fantastic when you get it assembled and roses planted.
And I want to add that all of you who have posted pics have beautiful arbors also!

Sure is nice to see those pics with all the color when everything here is still all white.

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Mar 10, 2005 8:45 am

Yep, your going to love the arbor......My Dad & DH built me 3 pillars a couple years ago for my climbing roses....Then last fall, I got 2 more trellis's at a good price to put some climbing vines the OED gave me.....I still have to figure out where to put them.....

If need help picking out climbing roses, I can help....

Great pictures Linda, and Deb!

Good Luck Midnight Reiter!

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 10, 2005 11:16 am

Yes roses love clay they say, but most modern roses grow in what ever soil you have, just give them plenty of water and some heavy fertilizer. I have 2 huge Leander ( English Darwin roses like Constance Spry in front of a huge wall and more or less planted in a ditch off construction grit with tennis ball sized stones in it for the first 2 feet, then poor clay, I just gave it a bit of clay and some compost

Just never use peat moss for roses.
So if your soil is normal soil I think they will both do fine for the first year.
Clematis like water too, but for them add some peat moss in their hole and do not fertilize too much just on top of them...

I just trow in a few handfull of organic fertilizer and alfalfa, do not know where it end

but they have been there for some years now. My clems climb the roses.

So think it depend on your soil

Pia

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Mar 22, 2005 9:35 am

Hi, Pia
I missd your question about the feeder. They make huge round bales that are about 6 feet in diameter here, and this is what they use to feed them. DH and I had quite a time getting that in there, mostly because he failed to understand the concept. I finally discovered that he was doing his best to lay it down, while I was trying to stand it on edge. When you've always used something a certain way, it takes a bit of convincing to see another use for it.

Once he got the idea, he thought it was one more of my bouts of insanity, but now he likes it. This year the rose has really filled out (I have a climbing New Dawn on it) and it should be really great looking...if I can find my rose gloves and get those canes tied up where they belong, that is.
Linda P

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 22, 2005 2:37 pm

Thanks

Yes, sometime cooperating help

Pia

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 23, 2005 2:05 am

Maybe I should go with 'New Dawn' instead if 'Constance Spry.'

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Apr 13, 2005 9:38 pm

Wish me luck. I hope we can get the arbor up on Friday. For two inexperienced unhandymen it's a scary proposition. The rose arbor wasn't cheap. I sure want this to work.

Wow! In a few weeks we'll be able to plant annuals! I should live that long. My rose arbor gets Heavenly Blue morning glories this year --- roses next year.