While I think roses are absolutely gorgeous and I love the ones that smell, I’m not a fan of growing them. When I’ve seen what I considered amazing rose gardens, they were spaced perfectly apart, kept perfectly trimmed and not a weed in sight. I’m not that kind of gardener. I’m aware of knockout roses and with my very limited knowledge, I can’t even tell a knockout rose from a regular rose.
We have this one rose growing in our yard. It could be a knockout rose for all I know. It doesn’t have much fragrance and I think that’s typical for most all knockout roses. It’s blooming nicely with little care, which makes me think it could be a knockout rose. It’s so nice, bright and colorful.
At one of my houses in Louisiana, I had planted a climbing rose on a fence probably 30 years ago. I had ordered it from the Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham, Texas. It took over the fence and was just gorgeous. For many years, my dad would send me a picture or tell me he had passed by and it was still growing and blooming. I need to ask him how it did after the hurricane. A lot of fences were knocked over, uprooting anything growing on them.
Vince wants to put some lattice under a side of the deck and if he does, a climbing rose might do well there – something I can plant and forget about.
Ruth says
I remember knockout roses as having little smell and too many thorns. Climbing roses are so pretty!
Cindy Kuipers says
I have grown Knock out roses for several years. They grew taller than me one year! I do nothing with them other than cut back dead growth in the spring.
Nelle Coursey says
The name of the rose I had is Samba, it is a floribunda. But it smelled delicious! You could smell it just by walking by and it was heavenly. It started out yellow, turned pink and then a darker pink. I loved that rose! I need to replace it with another one. They get to be such big blooms too. I think I brought one to Common Grounds one day when you were there. I got mine from Lone Star Nursery out of Tyler. A friend had the man send me 10 bare root bushes and he did not even charge me for them!
Judy Laquidara says
Thanks! I’ll have to make a note of that.