Climber, Shrub Rose 'Westerland'

Very disease resistant,drought tolerant, and shade tolerant. Fantastic spring flush and fragrance. Because I neglect it so, it doesn't bl...Read Moreoom much for me after that. The only negative is the vicious thorns. Otherwise, it is a super rose. I have it climbing in a semi-shaded, very dry spot at the back of my lot in south Alabama.

What a rose! She screams at you to look at her that's for sure! Westerland is VERY fragrant and a bright coral/orange color for me. She's...Read More very disease resistant and is quite a vigorous grower. I planted her as an ownroot last year and she is already about 6 ft tall!
Great rose, especially if you want fragrance and attention!

Our Westerland climber spent its first few months at the foot of our bench trellis contemplating its new Zone 8b home. Trying to decide w...Read Morehether to play in our rose arc or not? Then it took off. Abundant blooms in that oh-so-appealing orange, nice hearty canes, healthy, glossy leaves. Worth the white-knuckle wait!

I grew Climbing Westerland in Zion, IL, a town halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, a couple of miles from Lake Michigan. It gets very ...Read Morecold there - I believe it's Zone 5a, but the lake effect snow keeps it cooler and snowbound.

The Rose grew with an eastern exposure, and it grew magnificently, with blooms around June 20th like clockwork, and a less profuse flowering in Fall. The blooms continued almost until frost.

I purchased the rose as a bareroot, and by the end of the season, had a couple of strong shoots. It really took off the following year, and by the year 3, I had enough canes to justify building a trellis. Highly recommended rose cultivar.

I have since moved, and I am in Spotslvania, VA (Zone 7a/b; Zip 22553). I plan on growing it again here in Spring 2009, and have several bare-root plants on order.

My Westerland bloomed it's first year, and put on a lot of canes. This year it has lots of 6' - 8' canes, and many flowers. I have it o...Read Moren a tall pillar in front of a fence, and I think I will train some of the canes on the fence as well.

Westerland really took off the first year it was planted and sported canes of 7'-8' on a trellis in companionship with a Ken Dobson clema...Read Moretis. The rose bloomed a lot, the clematis not so much! This is definitely a zone 4b microclimate and faces east, with no southern or western exposure at all. I was very pleased with the rose.

This is a wonderful, strong, disease-resistant rose. There is a sport available also, "Autumn Sunset", which has yellow blooms.

Westerland has been our first venture into rose gardening two years ago. It's abundant, scented, healthy - we're still in love with it to...Read Moreday. (Lavrica, Slovenia, Europe, climatic zone 6.)

Bred in Germany. Won the ADR Anerkannte Deutsche Rose award in 1974, the Award of Garden Merit in 1993, and the Modern Shrub Rose award t...Read Morewice in 2001.

Parentage:
Seed: Friedrich Wörlein
Pollen: Circus