Romantic climbing rose

Greetings to all the rose lovers! Today's video I will dedicate to the first climbing rose to bloom in my garden this spring, Wedding Garland. We will admire her beauty, discuss best growing conditions, challenges that she offers, and the amount of work one has to put in to achieve best flowering results. Let's go! The Wedding Garland climbing rose was bred in 2003, so it's quite a new rose by the renowned South African breeder Ludwig. This makes her easily accessible in many nurseries of South Africa and she fits perfectly with our warm climate. This plant, the specific plant in my garden, is one years old. It was planted last year in September and had only two three branches. As you can see this plant is not shy to grow fast and reach over two and a half meters high and wide in one year. Wedding Garland's parents' famous Floribunda rose iceberg made this climber very floriferous. It is never without a bloom, but first spring flush after the winter prune is the most spectacular, abundant, and charming. Flower opens to have peachy center fading into creamy white the next day after opening. They have pleasant but not overpowering fragrance that fades slowly together with peachy color. Flowers are five to seven centimeters in diameter, born in clusters of four to seven on the branch. Individual flower fades in about three to five days, weather dependent, but numerous buds keep opening and filling the space. Flowers handle heat and rain very well. Luckily flowers are self-cleaning and don't require continuous care, but at the end of this big flush I would recommend to give her very light prune to hold back her vigorous growth as well as form larger flowers on stronger canes. But if you don't have too much time for it, just break off the faded flowers or forming rose hips to help rose rebloom faster. This rose requires at least six hours of sun a day, preferably more. I have two wedding garlands planted against the wall at the same time, but one gets less sun and it is smaller in size and takes longer to start flowering. To achieve the best blooming result, long branches can be tied horizontally so plant can push out new shoots all along the cane and provide you with multiple creamy bouquets at the end of each shoot. In my garden this rose shown good resistance to black spot but quite susceptible to powdery mildew requires time as sprays to control the sickness at first symptoms. If you let mildew take over it will be very difficult to stop its progress on such large plant without serious fungicides that are only available to registered farmers in South Africa. So us domestic gardeners have to be very careful not to let the sickness overtake the plant. Planting her away from solid wall on the arch or pillar or transparent fence will be better position than I have here. Good aeration helps prevent powdery mildew and my mildew infestation always starts here in the corner or near the wall. Obviously to achieve abundant growth of new shoots, a rose of this size will require balanced fertilizing. Organic or chemical just please cut away nitrogen out of feeds for a month when you see that rose gets too much powdery mildew as excessive nitrogen supports mildew growth. I hope despite of little challenges that wedding garland might have the romantic look and abundance of blooms will bring joy and peace to your garden like she does for me.