Climbing Rose 'Laura Ford'
- A beautiful miniature climbing rose with lush foliage and clusters of lightly scented, double sunshine yellow flowers.
- Covered in blooms over its entire height, and repeat flowering from early summer until the autumn.
- Compact and sturdy growth, ideal for growing up any support you choose and perfect in a pot on the patio.
- Growing to around 2.5m tall, this wonderful climber is easy to grow and control.
- Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot.
Product Description
A miniature climbing rose with flowers borne over its entire height, award winning ‘Laura Ford’ is an impressive sight. Compact, so it’ll never get out of control, and easy to train onto any kind of support you choose such a pergolas or obelisks, it’ll bring welcome height to your garden whether planted in a pot on the terrace or balcony or into the ground.
Clusters small, double, deep yellow lightly scented flowers that develop a pink flush as they age bloom amongst lush dark green foliage. A repeat flowering rose, ‘Laura Ford’ will bloom from June and throughout the year until the first frosts of autumn.
Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come.
Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot.
Plant Information
Top Tips
- Climbing roses need plenty of support and must be tied as near horizontal as possible on to wires, trellis or similar. Newly planted climbing roses need little initial pruning. Thereafter prune in October or November.
- The roses can be kept in their pots throughout the winter provided they are kept well fed and watered, however ideally, they should planted out as soon as possible. Because plants are dormant throughout the winter, they do not produce any new roots until spring, so don't be alarmed if the compost falls away from the roots when you take them out of their pots.
- They will already have been cut back so no further pruning will be required, apart from removing any tips that have died back.
Care Guide
- To prune, just remove any dead, dying, damaged and diseased stems and also deadhead regularly. Traditionally, you would cut just above a leaf joint with a sloping cut away from the bud, however, this isn't necessary, and don’t worry about pruning too much - roses are very resilient and will grow back.
- When pruning, make sure that your secateurs are clean and sharp to prevent squashing stems and introducing disease.
- Add mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help the plant establish quicker.
- Roses can be planted at any time of the year, as long as the soil is not frozen, waterlogged or drought-dry. Plant your rose where it can get plenty of sun for at least half of the day, and where it will be sheltered from the wind.
- Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, so add plenty of well-rotted manure into the hole if necessary and plant so that the graft union (the swollen area when the stems meet the roots) is around 3cm below soil level.
- Water well every other day - daily if the weather is hot and dry.
- Established roses can be watered around once a week through spring and summer - more if the weather is hot.
- For best results, feed roses in late-March/April and again in late July.
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