Climbing America

    Climbing America came from the bare root rose table at a local farm store.  As I began to do research on this rose I realized what a great bargain I'd gotten.  America is one of the highest rated climbing roses.  It is heat-tolerant and disease-resistant.  It blooms on new wood, so no waiting for that first blossom!                America is constantly producing new canes and new roses of magnificent form and fragrance.  All season long, sumptuous double blooms of a rich salmon-pink grace healthy canes.  The heavy flowers have the most charming habit of nodding as if asleep against a pillow backdrop of dark green leaves.  New foliage is dark red.
      In our backyard, America winds its way around the bird feeder.  Late growth spurred on by the removal of some bossy peonies at its base enabled America to reach a height of about five feet this year.  I expect it to attain even greater heights next year if the canes can survive a Michigan winter.
     
Spring 2000-  We love "America" so much that we've planted another specimen near the duck pen so that its fragrant blossoms and sumptuous, dark foliage will help camouflage our chain link fence.

Climbing America

Breeder:  Warriner

Parentage:  Fragrant Cloud x Tradition

Introduced:  1976

Class:  Large-flowered Climber

Color:  Salmon-pink

Scent:  Fruit & Spice

Size:  7-12 feet

Zones:  4-10

                             June 2000     

  Always fresh, always beautiful!  Here, "America" mixes it up with purple clematis "Warsaw Nike."  A full blossom of "Tropicana" is just to the left.  You can just barely see a dark bud of "Intrigue" getting ready to open behind the mammoth dahlia foliage.  That first rose was spectacular! 

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