How do you train climbing roses into a flower wall? These varieties are worth planting
As an office worker who leaves early and comes home late every day, I always make sure to look at my flowers before heading to work. I adore this one particular scene that never grows tiresome - a rose flower wall like an oil painting. When the flowers all bloom, their skill at competing for attention is on full display. That is my reason for falling in love with rose flower walls.
Creating a flower wall is actually not fussy at all. Once you have chosen the right varieties, have a good planting medium, and taken care of the basic maintenance tasks - sunlight, adequate nutrients, regular pruning, paying attention to ventilation and dryness in the environment, and preventing pests and diseases - all that is left is to train it. Beginners can absolutely have the rose flower wall of their dreams too, and it will definitely be stunning!
The obvious first choice for a flower wall is of course large and small climbing roses. Most of the modern newly bred varieties are European roses, with hybrid newcomers emerging endlessly, and there have been qualitative leaps in flower color, petals, and flower quantity, which is thanks to Europeans' passion for breeding them. Now let's see which climbing rose is your favorite:
Based on practical experience, the following climbing rose varieties are basically flowering machines, with many blooms, a long flowering period, and repeated blooming across multiple seasons. They are very suitable for beginners to grow, and are the ones fellow flower lovers recommend most (who can blame me for being a partial mom too) - 1. The beautiful and hardworking Parade, 2. The light apricot-colored Sweet Dream, 3. The multi-headed, relatively small-flowered Free Spirit (you need to wait patiently for it to grow up), 4. The richly fragrant Teasing Georgia (super photogenic), 5. The free-flowering and disease-resistant Angela, 6. The pink Leonardo da Vinci with a faint tea fragrance, 7. The classic European rose Golden Celebration (its spring blooms are outstanding), 8. The light purple, pitiable Blue Rain, 9. The enormous-flowered Super Fairy, 10. The pink Eden rose, known as the world's most beloved rose (beautiful flowers, but unfortunately it only blooms for one season), 11. The romantic Red Eden rose (its branches are a bit stiff, so pay attention to training), 12. The soft-branched yellow Margaret's Princess.
Of course, climbing roses are far more than just these; many others are also suitable for making flower walls. Since I am in Guangdong and Guangxi, I also grew Parade before, and the flowers were very beautiful, but unfortunately they wilted as soon as the sun hit them, so you still have to choose the most perfect and most suitable one according to your own location.
European roses are very beautiful, with diverse flower shapes and rich, colorful blooms, so they are highly sought after. But they also have quite a few drawbacks: they get sick easily and are not easy to grow. So before planting, you must do your homework. Only by fully understanding their habits can you tame them. A rose flower wall with blooms competing in splendor - you can have one too!