Climbing Roses: Planting, Training, Pruning and Caring for Climbing and Rambling Roses on Walls, Fences and Arches

Every winter a climbing rose spends a few months as a bundle of bare, prickly sticks tied to a wall. Then, one morning in early summer, it opens a flower at the height of your nose, over the gate or by the bedroom window, without your having to kneel on the lawn at all. A patch of soil the size of a doormat can, in a few years, clothe a wall several metres high. This book shows you how to get there.

Climbing and rambling roses have a reputation for being complicated, and most of it comes ...