Tom's Rose Garden

Paul's Scarlet Climber
(Paul, 1916)

This actual plant used to grow under my bedroom window when I was child. My folks are re-landscaping their front yard, so I was sent the plant. It came to me as a dozen bare-roots - one main and a bunch of suckers. I�ve planted eight plants along the front fence of our side yard. I�ll train them into the fence.

�Climber or pillar rose of medium vigour only up to 10 ft. Flowers bright reddish-crimson, in small clusters, semi-double, of medium size, slightly scented. Blooms profusely in mid to late June with little recurrence, the later flowering being better if it is only pruned very lightly after first flowering. One of the most popular roses for many years and still widely grown but in colour it is now superseded by others with stronger, clearer red with practically no tinge of purplish-blue in the red. Some stocks seem to have deteriorated in vigour in recent years.� The Dictionary of Roses by Gault & Synge