Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening June 2015, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Cam--
That is a very stately looking trellis. Looks like metal. Yes?
The red rose against the stone wall and white trellis will look spectacular

My "Autumn Sunset" climbing rose is really declining. Half of the
canes are dead this year. There is always one new cane that shoots up
in the spring but,overall, it is just getting old...I think. I made the tall trellis this rose
lives on from PT wood slats screwed together.

I do not know what to do with this climbing rose? It has been growing in this spot
for a long, long time. Wonder if i could dig it up and plant something else??
Thinking how pretty the Zephirine Drouhin Rose would look there....

On the other hand--the Clematis-"Lady Betty Balfour" wants to climb to the moon!!
It's tendrils are twining on everything nearby. It is on a small, metal trellis (Aldis).
NOT high enough for it. A switch here would work great...but NOT realistic.

Also--my all time favorite Rose "Sweet Surrender" is also declining.
There is ONE main stem left--and a new cane from this spring. This one is about
20+years old as well.
Everything seems to be getting old here---including ME!


1--The tall trellis I made for the climbing rose.

2--How the base of this trellis was put together.

3--The last stems of my "Sweet Surrender" Rose. It will continue--somehow!

4--This is the "Lady Betty Balfour" Clematis--which wants to climb and climb...
but it has NO trellis high enough to do so...

5--This Clematis is twining around anything and everything...Needs a 10' trellis!