mishkab said:I grow many clematises through roses. There are endless combinations. I plant them according to my mood at that particular moment. I love blue/purple clematises with yellow/ orange roses, and red rose with white/ pink clematis and vice versa. Clematis is a very diverse group of plants. You can plant clematises that flower before the rose, with the rose or after the rose. There are different requirements for clematis pruning that you have to keep in mind as well. There is a whole book about growing clematises with roses: The Rose and the Clematis : As Good Companions
by John Howells
Do you have any particular rose or clematis you trying to combine with?
mishkab said:I grow many clematises through roses. There are endless combinations. I plant them according to my mood at that particular moment. I love blue/purple clematises with yellow/ orange roses, and red rose with white/ pink clematis and vice versa. Clematis is a very diverse group of plants. You can plant clematises that flower before the rose, with the rose or after the rose. There are different requirements for clematis pruning that you have to keep in mind as well. There is a whole book about growing clematises with roses: The Rose and the Clematis : As Good Companions
by John Howells
Do you have any particular rose or clematis you trying to combine with?
Growmore said:Perhaps I am of the, 'Old school'. Being a rosarian. I along with countless other have for the most part considered roses to be grown selectly. Meaning a rose bed is home only to roses, albiet a group planting of a single variety. This practice also applying to climbers etc and other climbing plants.
Then in more recent times, times have changed. Now rose beds are often underplanted with heavens knows what. Inter mixing with climbing plants. I prefer to keep the two.........seperate. Having said that. I have only a small garden. So my climbing and rambler roses are close together and I have deliberately tied them in so as to form a mixed presentation.
Growin roses in with clematis and lonicera, for me, a no go. I have found that clematis and lonicera both can be rampant growers and given the chance will choke to death everythingelse, just as common ivy does. Both clematis and lonicera grow fast and in that course there can be long lengths of growth void of foliage, this so often dies, especially with clematis. So your prized rose is now somewhere in that mass of birdnesting dead or dying structure. In the case of lonicera. You could end up with the whole garden wrapped up in it and just a few flowers here and there. Each to their own. I prefer to stick to the older plans.
ttkc4704 said:
Thanks! I will look for this book. I have a huge old rose bush ( just rose colored singles) that came with the property, and a purplish magenta German Pavement rose I planted 2 yrs ago. I love sweet Autumn Clematis but it can be rampant and heavy for climbing through roses don't you think? I like to see the roses bloom by themselves, then see the clematis at other times. The Montana might look good in the early spring. Would appreciate your examples