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Add Romance to your Arbors and Pergolas with Fragrant Rambling Roses

Rose Gardening, Designing with Roses, Climbing Roses, Rambling Roses


Rambler Roses are a spectacular sight when in full bloom. In this beautiful garden scene, two lovely rambling roses have been combined: Rose 'Dorothy Perkins' with salmon-pink flowers and Rose 'Princesse Louise' with creamy blush flowers, eventually fading to white. Blooming once in late spring or early summer, they may not repeat flower, but they make up for it with the massive quantities of blooms they produce in their main flush. Their long, flexible canes are literally smothered in roses, forming impressive cascades of colorful blooms.

Both roses enjoy a light fragrance. Easy to train, they add their romantic flower garlands to arbors, pergolas or walls.

Perfect at hiding the leggy stems of the roses, the violet-blue flower spikes of Catmint 'Six Hills Giant' (Nepeta x Faassenii) nicely complement the rose color schemes and form a lovely show against their gray-green foliage.

Garden Information

Hardiness 6 – 8
Exposure Full Sun, Partial Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Water Needs Average
Maintenance Average
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil Ph Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Moist but Well-Drained
Characteristics Fragrant, Showy
Attracts Butterflies
Landscaping Ideas Arbors, Pergolas, Trellises
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage

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©Clive Nichols

While every effort has been made to describe these plants accurately, please keep in mind that height, bloom time, and color may differ in various climates. The description of these plants has been written based on numerous outside resources.

Garden Information

Hardiness 6 – 8
Exposure Full Sun, Partial Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early)
Water Needs Average
Maintenance Average
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil Ph Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Moist but Well-Drained
Characteristics Fragrant, Showy
Attracts Butterflies
Landscaping Ideas Arbors, Pergolas, Trellises
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage

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Great Plant Combination Ideas with Clematis Great Plant Combination Ideas with Nepeta - Catmint Great Plant Combination Ideas with Rosa - Roses


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