if your goal is to plant climbing roses then you need to be aware they won't grab on to a fence in order to make them successful on this block wall we put a very simple trellis that anyone can build we will talk to you about which roses we picked and how we built the trellis these are 16 ft long 5 ft tall heavy gauge welded wire in 4x4 squares we found that stores like Home Depot and Lowe's have something similar but they're not as heavy a gauge a wire and we like this heavy gauge cuz
it gives a a little bit of support to the fence and it's strong and these roses over time get heavy yeah you can use thinner uh wire um I'm not really impressed with the finished effect it tends to not be as rigid and uh it might waffle or I'm not sure what the right word is but it's not straight these are 16 foot lengths if you want you can cut them into whatever size you need this is 252 ft if you use any other products it's more expensive if you build a wood trellis it's way
more expensive so this is simple easy to construct you know when you first plant the Roses you see the trellis more than anything we painted it a nondescript color that makes it not real noticeable and we used the Benjamin Mo color dragon's breath you should hardly notice the wire and eventually the Roses will touch each other and you won't see the wire wire at all the way we attached it is really very simple we used we drilled holes in the block wall and we used this simple what I call EY hooks um I think maybe
that's what they're called and we painted them dragon's breath also and we used enough to support these 16t long pieces we put them in about every 8 ft and that's the trellis and about as simple a trellis as I can imagine you want to plant them as close to the wire as you can get I would prefer that these closer but the reason they're not and many times they're not on a block wall is there's a footing and the footing is solid concrete and so you can't get any closer unless you want to damage the
footing which we don't want to do these were planted right up next to the footing and then we tilt them a little over time you won't even notice the space because the trunks will get much bigger you don't have to go out there every day and help them twist around it but you have to get them started so they'll latch onto that wire and then they on their own they'll start to grab it and grow and I like to use green Horticultural tape we'll just tie the rose tendrils to the wire we're also going to
take off all the stakes and then we'll attach the ones that are big enough some aren't big enough but the ones that are big enough we'll attach them to the wire these Rose varieties were selected for their color their size their Vitality their adaptivity to our climate very hot summers there's six of them Don Juan Joseph's coat pretty and pink golden opportunity zephrine druhan and lavender Crush you might get the idea that those are all very different colors so what they're after is this kind of um I might call an orgasmic mix of color really
spectacular they have low roses in the foreground and then they have these big roses all up against the back and really Vivid bright colors you know it's going to look fantastic there's one different variety next to each other six times and then we start the six over again there's quite a variation in climbing row sizes so when you select the rows some don't get that big some don't spread that much some of these spread more we kind of like the idea of them growing together and mixing together so we're not worried about it but there's
no hard and fast rule they have to be spaced 10 ft that's just what we came up with here because they really wanted to use six different roses four times and so they had 252 fet so the 10 ft spacing came out of that if you look up the Roses it'll give you their what they like in terms of climate and also um how big they get how tall and wide they get areas of the country they do well in so you'll be considering all those things and then the color obviously is a big consideration
with climbing roses the other thing to be aware of is uh sometimes you go online or look in a book and you find these climbing roses that you love but you can't find them anyone that grows them so if you're thinking you know where you're going to buy them you might check with what's available in this case the owner became convinced she wanted that lavender Crush I could not find it locally so one of the neat things about buying plants these days is you can go online and find lavender Crush so it came from another
state but I was able to find lavender Crush all the other roses I bought at local nurseries here in Fresno for climbing roses you don't do a lot of pruning because it's almost impossible to prune them once they get intertwined in the wire but you can prune for width and so you might want to come and prune it to keep encouraging it to stay flat and then if you wanted to you don't have to but you can prune off old blooms which is a lot of work you probably do increase future blooms if you prune
off dying blooms but that's difficult to do on 250 long area of climbing roses the way we're going to get these to perform like crazy is with our blend about 3 cups when we plant and then we're going to spray over the blend in what we think is the root Zone with penetrate liquid bio Tiller that is spectacular for roses and then every year add that same blend and penetrate liquid bioer and by doing that you'll encourage a massive Bloom and a really healthy climbing Road R I'd say about 3 years the wall will mostly
be covered in about 3 years you'll see much more climbing rows than wire so I hoped you liked our video on climbing roses please like it if you found it helpful in any way and also subscribe and help us get more subscribers and more viewers
