Hello, just joined today, and I've been finding lots of really juicy information and ideas, thanks all!
My question: I have a concrete ranch "porch" (a high stoop) attached to the facade of my house, with an overhang and pillars in front of it, as well as a garden bed. Planted at the back of the garden bed--directly in front of the porch and pillars--is a dense hedge. I can't move it or I would, but it has cramped in my flowers-climbing-the-pillars dreams for years, because although the front of my house including the pillars gets full sun, the hedge in front blocks the bottom three feet of pillars.
I still have my dream and I want to go for it, but I don't want to kill any flowers when I do, so finally my question: If I were to put my two climbing roses (Dublin Bay) in pots on the stoop beside the pillars (behind the hedge) and let them grow up, would they be okay with their bottom three feet of canes in perpetual shade? They already have 5- and 7-foot tall canes, so the tops would get full sun.
