Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose
Rosa 'Zephirine Drouhin'
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Specifications
| Plant Characteristics | Cold hardy, Flowering, Reblooming, Fragrant, Thornless, Disease resistant, Attracts pollinators |
|---|---|
| Hardiness Zone | 5a to 11b |
| Sunlight | Full sun |
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| Width | |
| Watering Needs | Moderate |
| Preferred Soil | Clay, Loamy, Sandy |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Growth Habit | Climbing |
| Blooms In | Summer, Fall, Spring |
| Flower Color | Pink |
| Foliage Color | Green |
| Fragrant | Yes |
| Suitable Space | Outdoors |
| Plant Name | Rose |
| Botanical Name | |
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| Cultivar | |
| Class | Magnoliopsida, Rosales |
| Does Not Ship To | AK, HI, ID, MT, PR, UT |
Description
Old-fashioned fragrant climber, the Zephirine Drouhin Rose (Rosa 'Zephirine Drouhin') is a vigorous Climbing Rose that puts on an incredible show when in full bloom! This antique classic is in high demand, but generally hard to find. This Climber has scented, vibrant, large flowers with sometimes as many as 25-30 petals each! The butterflies and bees will adore these!
Zephirine Drouhin is remarkable for several reasons! It's a vigorous climber so you won't have to fuss with it to see results. It's also nearly thornless, so when you do decide to work with it, you don't have to worry about risking injury to do so. Plus, this Rose can adapt to part-shade situations, opening the door to a world of many uses throughout your landscape. Zephirine is grown on its own root so there's no worry of unwanted suckers!
As if the Bourbon Rose Zephirine Drouhin's remarkable qualities aren't enough, it's also incredibly beautiful and prolific in bloom. The abundance of 4-inch, deep-pink, semi-double flowers are incredibly fragrant. They'll appear in May and continue on all growing season, right up until frost. You'll enjoy their sweet fragrance all summer and into fall!
The new growth is reddish, and the leaves have a delightful bronze color that matures to a glossy, dark green hue that is thick and vibrant in appearance. Even after the foliage drops in autumn, the purplish coloring of the canes adds an attractive accent to the winter landscape throughout USDA hardiness zones 5 through 9.
Planting and Application:
One Zephirine is sure to look amazing climbing your garden wall or trained against a trellis. It is a great vertical focal point to be planted on a pillar or larger garden obelisk in a nice sunny area. Many like to train the longer canes along a fence. Some even like to plant them as a colorful freeform and informal hedge. Train one as an upright accent over the top of your front entrance or patio. Grow them up and over a pergola or at an entrance to a garden room.
Plant as a backdrop to your Rose garden and add Rose bushes and Rose trees for varying heights. Climbing Roses like Zephirine Drouhin will add vertical color, fragrance and privacy to your garden by elevating its spectacular, floral display to eye level. There will be loads of blooms for your vase displays indoors too! It's an absolute must-have if you're seeking an antique, Climbing Rose with a gorgeous pink color that's also incredibly hardy and easy-care.
- Gorgeous Deep Pink Large Antique Roses
- Old-World Rose Fragrance
- Strong, Vigorous Canes 8-10 Feet Tall
- Red New Growth, Bronzy Green Summer Foliage & Purple Canes
- May Until Frost Blooms!
- Vertical Color, Privacy & Space-Saving Scented Ornamentals!
#ProPlantTips for Care:
This opens the plant up for full exposure to the sun so it can produce maximum amounts of bloom. Plant your Rose in an enriched site with plenty of humus and organic matter. Give your Rose moderate, consistent moisture. Provide a 3-4 inch layer of arborist mulch around the root system to hold in moisture and insulate the roots. Clean up any dropped leaves in early spring and keep an open interior for air circulation. This is a big part of preventing blackspot and other issues, but this Rose is naturally disease-resistant.
How to Prune and Train Climbing Roses
Pruning should not be done during the first two to three years, since Climbing Roses need time to build flowering Rose canes. These structural canes will grow thicker for several years before it is time to replace them.
Spring Pruning and Structural Rejuvenation
Remember that spring pruning is most limited to removing broken branches, and dead tips or correcting the structure of the Climbing Roses. If you remove long canes and side branching you will be removing the first set of June flowers.
- Prune Roses in early spring just as you see new buds beginning to swell.
- Remove any dead, diseased, or damaged branches.
- Identify several new, younger, more vigorous canes to become the new structural foundation of your beautiful Climbing Rose.
- Remove the fattest, oldest canes out at the soil level, if possible and right after the first set of flowers finishes. Those canes will be replaced with new shoots that develop from the base. As these new, rapidly produced shoots elongate, you will want to direct, train, and tie them into the place you would like them to develop.
Summer Maintenance and Pruning
Horizontal branches produce the most flowers. Prune these secondary canes after flowering, because Climbing Roses bloom on last year's canes (old wood).
- Cut your secondary canes down to 6 - 8 inches above a bud after the first flush of flowers has finished.
- Trim the secondary canes back at 90 to 45-degree angles.
- Keep your structural support canes in place.
In colder regions it may be more difficult to maintain Climbing Roses, so choosing your planting site is important.
Winter protection is best for Roses grown in zones 7 and colder. Mulch is your best, more natural way to overwinter roses by mounding the dormant canes in late fall. Don't fall prune, rather instead wait until spring.
Those new long cases of this nearly thornless Rose will produce flowers next year, so be careful not to trim them back. Read all you need about Climbing Rose training and care, pruning Rose, and about winterizing your Roses, and un-wintering Roses in spring in our #ProPlantTips Garden Blog!
Roses respond really well to adding fertilizer to keep them producing flowers. It is important not to feed too late in the summer so the plants can shut down before winter and go dormant naturally and overwinter better.
- Full Sun & Partial Shade
- Moderate Moisture Needs & Easy Care
- Wonderful Vigor & Resistance
- Provide Enriched Well-Drained Mulched Soil
- Deadhead & Encourage New Blooms
- Prune Very Early Spring
This pink-flowered climber has that classic Bourbon Rose fragrance that you will remember from the old-world English Roses - you know - back when a Rose smelled like a Rose! We have secured a very limited quantity of this hard-to-find, Climbing Rose, so don't miss out. Order today at NatureHills.com to find Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Roses for sale now!
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Was a bit concerned as it took a while to ship however, the rose bush was super healthy, had a great root ball. And it's taking really well in it's new planting area.
Shipping wait times can definitely test your patience, so it's good to know the plant arrived in solid shape and is settling in well. Zephirine Drouhin tends to put energy into establishing roots before it puts on a big show above ground, so you're off to a great start. Thanks for sticking with us through the wait.
I was very pleased with the delivery and condition of my climbing rose. I am eager to see the fragrant blooms to appear.
Zephirine Drouhin is such a rewarding rose to look forward to, Rebecca. The fragrance is genuinely one of its best qualities, and as a thornless climber it is easy to work with as it gets established. Give it a sunny spot with good air circulation and it should put on a nice show for you. Thanks for the kind words and for choosing us.
It’s growing very well, very healthy, but has no buds or roses. When can I expect them?
Zephirine Drouhin is a vigorous grower, so it sounds like yours is off to a good start. First-season plants often put most of their energy into establishing roots and canes before flowering, so it is common to see a flush of blooms arrive in the second year once the plant is more settled in. If you are heading into your second season and still seeing no buds, feel free to reach out to our support team and they can help troubleshoot things like light levels and pruning timing. Thanks for the update, Ellen.
I was initially wary about ordering plants online, but to my surprise, both of my Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose arrived in excellent condition. It was a sizable, healthy plant on arrival, and it has shown very little transplant shock during establishment. So far, it is doing great and has started growing vigorously—almost ready for a trellis. I’m very pleased with this purchase and would not hesitate to order from Nature Hills Nursery again.
Zephirine Drouhin is such a rewarding climber, and it sounds like yours hit the ground running. Minimal transplant shock and vigorous new growth this early on are great signs for the seasons ahead. When you get that trellis in place, give her some room to spread, she can put on quite a bit of cane once she settles in. Thanks for trusting us with your first online plant order, Natalie.
I ordered and paid for 2 of these roses. The plants I received looked healthy. Sadly, when they started to bloom it was apparent that I did not get anything resembling what I ordered. One had both red and pink blossoms. The other had an entirely different red blossom. No response to my phone call or my email. I cannot use these roses. I will be reporting this company to the Better Business Bureau. I highly recommend you have nothing to do with this company.
I got two of these Zephirine rose bushes about a month ago. They are doing super well - already blooming lovely roses and growing well. So happy!
A climbing rose that blooms within the first month is always a good sign, and Zephirine Drouhin tends to settle in fast when it's happy. As it matures you'll get even more of those deep pink, thornless canes, which makes training it along a fence or arbor genuinely enjoyable. Thanks for sharing the update, Hannah.
Rose arrived looking very healthy!
Healthy roots and strong canes right out of the box are a great sign for Zephirine Drouhin. This rose tends to establish quickly when it hits the ground in good shape, so you are off to a solid start. Thanks for sharing, Amanda!
Just opened the box and had to immediately write a review. I have never received a mail-order plant in the shape this rose bush came in! I was stunned. Absolutely gorgeous, healthy plant already laden with blossoms ready to open! Getting it in the soil very soon and hoping it will keep its excellent vigor.
Rebecca, a rose arriving with buds already forming is exactly what you want to see when you open that box. Zephirine Drouhin is a vigorous grower by nature, so give it a good deep watering once it is in the ground and it should settle in without missing a beat. Thanks for sharing that first impression with us.
Huge lovely healthy plant. Very well packaged. Planted and happily growing!! Thank you!
Hi Karen! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for our Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose. We're so glad to hear that it arrived in great condition and is happily growing in your garden. As a gardening tip, make sure to prune your rose bush regularly to promote even more blooms! Happy gardening and thanks again for choosing our product. -Nature Hills Customer Service
My rose came well packaged and is thriving! Can’t wait for blooms!
Zephirine Drouhin is such a rewarding climber once it gets going, and it sounds like yours is off to a strong start. When blooms do arrive, you are in for a real treat. that soft, fragrant pink is hard to beat. Thanks for sharing the update!
I was amazed at the size of this mail order rose! It arrived lush and healthy. It has to be at least three times the size of other, even more expensive roses I've ordered in the past. Additionally, it's an 'own root' rose. I don't do grafteds...very pleased with this nursery and will order again!
Zephirine Drouhin is such a rewarding rose to grow, and it sounds like yours arrived ready to hit the ground running. The own-root factor is a real point of pride for us since own-root roses tend to establish more reliably and come back true if they ever die back to the crown. Thanks for mentioning the size comparison, Susan. We think you will be very happy with how this one performs for years to come.
Love the rose climber. It's doing very well so far.
Can't wait to see it growing up the arbor and full of blooms. i need to be patient.
Patience definitely pays off with Zephirine Drouhin. Once she finds her footing and starts climbing, the blooms are hard to beat, and the thornless canes make training her up an arbor a real pleasure. Thanks for sharing the update, Dean. We hope she puts on a show for you this season.
Beautiful healthy plants in bloom. Exceptional packing! Very with my roses.
Zephirine Drouhin arriving already in bloom is a real treat, and it sounds like yours made the trip in great shape. That rose is such a rewarding climber, nearly thornless and wonderfully fragrant as it matures. Thanks for the kind note, Cindi, and enjoy watching it settle in and take off.
The rose quality is awesome!
I ordered two rose bushes, only one was received. I have called customer service twice, they are helping other customers so the only option is to leave a message, which I did. Twice. I sent two emails to customer service over a three business day time time period. No response. I am frustrated. These are not cheap roses. This is my first time ordering from Nature Hill Nursery. I am very unhappy.
Delighted with this rose! It arrived in spectacular form, filled with buds that opened a few days later. I’ll be back for more of your superior plants.
Zephirine Drouhin is such a rewarding climber, and getting one that arrives full of buds ready to open is a great start. She is also one of the few climbing roses that does well in partial shade, so keep that in mind as she settles in. We look forward to seeing you shop with us again, Sarah.
The plant is a good size and generally healthy enough but it arrived with powdery mildew on it. We treated it and hopefully it will clear up.
The two bushes arrived in less then desireable condition, I prepped the groun,planted and mulched, we shall see in time if they will improveand florish
My new rose arrived last week in PERFECT condition full of buds! It literally filled the big box. We planted it last week and cut a rose last Friday. It’s still beautiful in the vase. Can’t wait to see it grow! Totally satisfied/. Pat Lockerd
A climbing rose that ships full of buds and delivers a cut flower within the first week of planting, that is a great sign of things to come, Pat. Zephirine Drouhin is a real charmer once it gets established, and with that kind of start you are in for a good show. Thanks for sharing the update, and enjoy watching it climb.
I just got my rose plant today it was very beautiful am so happy I will ask my husband to order me another.
Zephirine Drouhin is one of those roses that makes a strong first impression, and it only gets better once it settles in and starts climbing. It's a thornless variety too, which makes it a joy to work with up close. We hope your husband places that second order soon, and that both plants give you years of blooms. Thanks for sharing the excitement, R!
Arrived very healthy and good sized. Babied it in house and on deck during some cold weather but once planted, it has been quite happy.
Zephirine Drouhin is worth the extra care you gave it during that cold stretch. It sounds like it settled in well once it found its spot in the ground, and with any luck you will have those fragrant, thornless canes climbing happily for many seasons to come. Thanks for sharing the update, Ruth.
They adapted well and I had blossoms within 2-3 weeks!
Blossoms in 2 to 3 weeks is a great sign that the roots settled in quickly and the canes got right to work. Zephirine Drouhin tends to be an eager bloomer once it finds its footing, and it sounds like yours did exactly that. Thanks for sharing, Hannah!
All aspects of the order and delivery were top notch. The roses are planted and doing great!
Gorgeous first blooms!! Not much after that but I’m thinking it’s because we basically ignore it all summer except for watering it.. also because it is in afternoon sun inTx
Hi Sharon,
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose! We're thrilled to hear about those gorgeous first blooms. To help encourage more blooms throughout summer, try feeding it monthly with a rose-specific fertilizer from spring through late summer. Also, deadheading spent blooms regularly will signal the plant to produce more flowers. We appreciate you choosing Nature Hills Nursery. Thank you - Nature Hills Customer Support
