Fourth of July Climbing Rose

Want a dazzling Rose to use as a showy centerpiece? No space in the garden? You need the Fourth of July™ Climbing Rose ('Rosa 'Fourth of July') is a beautiful Climbing Rose with an impressive resume and a long list of fabulous features! An All-American Rose Selection Award winner in its debut year! This is another big winner from Tom Carruth with Weeks Roses.

With bold striped and flecked blooms that reach four inches across, the Fourth of July™ Rose delivers a huge visual impact. The unique look is even more amplified because the big blooms are held in clusters of four, five, and more! A spicy apple pie fragrance will make you and your guests want to take a closer look. Even in the first year, you'll enjoy blooms and reblooms through the growing season.

Cut long-stemmed sprays for cut flower arrangements regularly! You'll have plenty to share, and this will encourage new pointed buds to develop and bloom. Semi-double Fourth of July™ Roses features a wild mix of brilliant red and snowy white with bright yellow stamens. No two blooms are alike as they spiral open from high-centered to flat.

You'll be "wowed" as well, by the bright yellow centers. This patriotic colorway makes a very happy presentation in your garden! Dazzling Fourth of July™ Rose is a vigorous grower with glossy, deep green foliage. It's clean and disease-resistant to black spots and powdery mildew. Very chill and heat tolerant throughout USDA growing zones 5 through 10, this climber can reach heights of 10-14 feet tall and cover 5-6 feet in width.

Planting and Application:

These days, people want to make the most of their yards. Even a tiny courtyard can work hard as a blissfully private refuge. The strikingly beautiful Fourth of July™ Rose blooms reach four inches across. Can you imagine the excitement of this beloved fragrant variety gracing your space this season? Space is no problem with vertical growing plants!

Place this standout Rose where you'll be able to see and smell it. Use one or more on a trellis to create a flowering wall for an outdoor room! Use it along a sturdy screen to hide mundane, hum-drum, everyday objects (we're thinking of you, garbage cans!).

Create a special retreat as a destination spot on larger properties. Allow the Fourth of July™ Rose to cover a gazebo or garden arbor to create incredible outdoor rooms and privacy. Train it up around a lamppost on a front berm to create height in a Rock Garden. Or add year-round visual interest with a wooden or metal obelisk or tuteur placed in your garden beds.

You will love the vibrant cut flower arrangements and your pollinators will swarm these bold blossoms in droves! Feed the bees on a small footprint and know you're providing nectar for these endangered creatures!

• Climbing Rose With Big Sprays of Large, Long-Lived Blossoms
• Striking Deep Velvety-Red Petals Striped in Bright White
• Ruffled, Large Semi-Double Roses
• Feature Up to 15 Petals per Bloom
• Reblooms All Season
• Deliciously Fragrant!
• Great Cut Flower, Vertical Color, Space-Saving Accents & Specimen

#ProPlantTips for Care:

An adaptable heat-tolerant Climbing Rose and does best when planted in moist soils and in full sun, favoring the drying powers of the morning sun. It's a very attractive and reliable Rose and shows good disease resistance. Use a 3-4 inch deep layer of mulch to help keep the roots moist and keep the ground near your Roses hydrated on a regular schedule once established to support the blooms, avoiding splashing the foliage.

Provide a location with good air circulation and organically enriched well-drained soil and fertilize regularly with a good quality slow-release Rose fertilizer. Don't forget the Nature Hills Root Booster, to give this fragrant Rose life-long support when used during planting.

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.

1. Prune Roses in early spring just as you see new buds beginning to swell.
2. Remove any dead, diseased, or damaged branches.
3. Identify several new, younger, more vigorous canes to become the new structural foundation of your beautiful Climbing Rose.
4. 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).

1. Cut your secondary canes down to 6 - 8 inches above a bud after the first flush of flowers has finished.
2. Trim the secondary canes back at 90 to 45-degree angles.
3. 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.

• Great in Full Sun
• Well-Drained Enriched Soil
• Provide Moderate Regular Moisture & Mulch
• Prune Early Spring
• Disease Resistant to Black Spot, Rust & Powdery Mildew

Read all you need about pruning Roses Here, and winterizing Roses Here, and un-wintering Roses in spring in our #ProPlantTips Garden Blog!

Bring a welcome splash of patriotic color and spicy-sweet fragrance to your landscape design year after year. Order our top-selling Fourth of July™ Climbing Rose from NatureHills.com today! We will ship your high-quality bushes to your doorstep when the weather is right for planting in your part of the United States.

Rose FAQs

Where Is The Best Place To Plant Roses?

Climbing Roses prefer full sun and favor the drying power of the morning sun, and flowers are best when there are at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Choose a location in good, enriched soil that drains well and has good air circulation.

What Is The Best Month to Plant Roses?

You can plant Roses any time if you are able to provide enough consistent moisture and attention. While there is not a specific month that is best, generally because it changes with temperatures, climate and growing zone. However, the easiest times of the year to get Rose bushes established in your landscape are in spring after the last frost date, and in fall about 4-6 weeks before the first frost.

Do Climbing Roses Come Back Every Year?

Roses are deciduous woody perennial shrubs and will return bigger and better each year.

How Do I Find Roses for Sale Near Me?

Make your life easier and your yard happier by shopping for Roses at NatureHills.com online nursery. You'll find a massive selection of Rose bushes for sale, including many lovely Grandiflora varieties!

Choose the right shrub for your area by first finding your growing zone by entering your zip code in the field above the Plant Highlights section on our product pages. Narrow down your options by plant hardiness zone, sun availability, and size requirements.

Place your order, knowing it's backed by the Nature Hills Nursery product guarantee and protected by Plant Sentry™, which helps ensure regulated plant materials aren't sent to prohibited areas.

Expect to receive your plants at the appropriate planting time for your growing zone when temperatures are safest to ship through and into.

What Shipping Options Do You Offer?

NatureHills.com works closely with our growers and nursery professionals to ensure we ship when it is most appropriate for your area. Our goal is to deliver the hardiest plants by avoiding extreme high and low temperatures. Check out our shipping schedule for more information and to learn our wills and don'ts when it comes to shipping plants. Find your Roses for sale here at NatureHills.com!