- 1). Decide what you want your roses to climb. A garden trellis or an arbor will work well. But you may not need to buy anything else; look at what you have in your yard already. Maybe a garden shed would blend in better if it were covered with roses.
- 2). Choose the breed that will climb to the height you desire. An ever-blooming Darlow's Enigma, for example, will climb to eight feet, while the Cecile Brunner will grow to 30 feet.
- 3). Once you have determined the height you need for the roses, you can determine the spacing for the plants. Some varieties of roses lend themselves to the creation of hedges. If you plant them close together, no more that two feet apart, they will grow together and interlace their branches with one another. Within a few years, they will need no further support and will have a firm foundation upon which to grow.
- 4). Ramblers require at least 10 feet between each bush and grow from about eight to 10 feet. If hedges are not what you are looking for, then ramblers may be for you. They are climbing roses, but they are different in that they are flexible enough to be planted anywhere. Climbing roses, in contrast, need to be trained to grow over things and need at least seven feet of space between each bush.
- 5). Make your roses fit your space. You can also train your climbing roses into large bushes. By doing this, you will have a bush that can cover about 20 feet in diameter after just five or six years of growth. You will need to leave plenty of room around whichever variety of climbing rose you plant. As the plant grows, bind the main stalk with the flowering stalks to make one large stalk. The higher you bind them, the smaller the radius in which they will spread.
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