Today we are talking roses on the podcast a plant that I've never grown until this year

and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I have a climbing rose and I have some more traditional roses and that in fact is what

we are talking about on today's show.

We are talking about the growth habits of roses and sort of the categories that you

could grow out there.

There's actually quite a few.

The American Rose Society of which I am now a member, you've got modern, hybrid tea,

granda flora, flora bonda, polyantha, miniature, climber or shrub.

You also have old garden and I think antique is sometimes what it's referred to as but

regardless, there's a lot of different types of roses out there.

So let's go ahead and jump into climbing first because that is one that I actually have

on my property.

So roses that have a climbing habit can go really, really quite high, about 20 feet high,

three feet wide, they're fantastic for arbor's, arches, trellises of some kind.

They don't have a way to actually hold onto some things though so you actually have to

do it for them.

You have to either weave them through a trellis or some sort of structure or you have

to actually tie them some way to the structure.

It's not like a pea where the tendril will clasp and it'll climb itself upwards.

Next up you've got a ground cover or drift rose.

So a ground cover type, I mean the name is pretty self-explanatory, they are low growers.

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