first time with climbing rose -- your advice?

 Hello,

My wife came home this afternoon with a "Climbing America" rose.  I've
never tried roses before this week, and I usually have a gray thumb.

She wants to plant the Climbing America on an east-facing brick wall.
Some websites say that we need to drill holes in the brick (if you've
never done that, it's not the same as drilling in wood!), install
hardware, run wires, etc.  Really?  That's a lot to do to a building
that we don't own!

What happens if we just plant the climber beside the wall, and let it
go?  Okay, the Rose Police will tsk-tsk about it.  What else will
happen?

Thank you.

Ted Shoemaker

 On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:03:49 -0700 (PDT), Ted Shoemaker


If you drill into the landlord's masonary wall you just may find
yourself with a huge bill and needing a new place to live... I
strongly suggest you don't.  Instead buy a wooden trelis you can plant
in the ground in front of the masonary wall, it will not only keep you
with a roof over your head, it will look nice too.

 Wow!  This group provides not only gardening advice, but also plant
genocide (Nad R wants to exterminate roses from the planet), political
diatribe (Billy posts an evergrowing list of anticapitalist
sentiments), and advice about keeping the landlord happy (Brooklyn1
advises me not to poke holes in the exterior wall.  Yeah, I'll agree
with that!).

Hidden somewhere in there were good replies about growing roses.

What wasn't useful was entertaining; and what wasn't entertaining was
useful.

I like this group.

Thank you for all responses.

Ted Shoemaker

P.S.  I'm keeping the wife.

 
Your Welcome :)

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

 On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:45:56 +0000 (UTC), Nad R