Sally Holmes Climbing Rose

Fancy an English-style garden dripping with creamy white Roses all summer long? Then don't miss out on our limited inventory of the beloved Sally Holmes Climbing Rose (Rosa 'Sally Holmes')! The study stems are full of lush green foliage that by late spring and early summer fills itself with tender pink buds that burst open into clusters of flat single white blooms with a golden crown in the center of each.

Sally Holmes is a large, high-performance but short Climbing Rose that grows 6 to 12 feet in height and is only 3-5 feet wide. Simply put, Sally Homes Rose blooms her head off! She produces outstanding trusses packed with plenty of pink-hued buds that open to reveal ivory petals around a burst of cheerful yellow stamens. Bedecking your garden with her lightly scented, single blooms and does so much more than acting as a mere ornamental vertical Rose.

You'll gain a versatile landscape specimen, armloads of cheerful blooms, and even double-duty garden additions for shade, privacy, and height! Plus, all the local butterflies will truly appreciate your thoughtfulness in providing these extended blooming nectar resources for their nutrition, too. You'll get beauty, charm, and a good deed all in one pretty package!

Planting and Application:

Even in very small spaces, Sally Holmes works beautifully to provide a privacy screen and garden feature. Train her up on a trellis and she'll reward you as a "flowering wallpaper" for a garden room. Even balcony and patio gardeners can add this space-saving vertical garden element to large planters and train them onto a trellis to create living walls that shade and screen your private areas. As always, train Climbing Roses onto arbors and garden pergolas!

Sally Holmes can also be used to add year-round visual interest on a Rose pillar or obelisk. These time-tested solutions bring structure to your garden, even in wintertime! Feel free to mix and match this pretty, multi-hued choice with any of our other Climbing Roses. Alternate with pink, yellow, or even striped selections for a customized look you'll adore each season!

What's more, versatile Sally Holmes can also be enjoyed as a vigorous Shrub Rose accent! They create a mounding and tumbling shrub that doubles as thorny defensive barriers and landscape definition. Plant several along a slope and you'll create a lovely and effective barrier planting to protect (and enhance!) your property. Use a single truss as an elegant cut flower arrangement on its own! You'll have plenty to choose from, and harvesting the blooms actually encourages more flower production!

• Pink Buds, Single Creamy White Blooms & Golden Centers
• Lush Foliage & Strong, Flexible Canes
• Mid-Range Height & Space-Saving Width
• Very Versatile & Adaptable
• Cut Flowers & Pollinators
• Screening, Backdrops & Barriers, Containers & Vertical Specimens

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Delightfully hardy and adaptable throughout USDA growing zones 5 to 10, these versatile Climbing Roses do fantastically in almost any full sun setting! Give them good air circulation and enriched, well-drained moist soil with supplemental moisture during the hot summer months. Roses appreciate a 3-4 inch thick layer of arborist mulch over their entire root system and regular fertilizer applications.

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.

Early each spring, after the last frost of the year has passed, it's always a good idea to prune back the Rose tree several inches to maintain the nice round form atop its trunk. Keep new blooms returning with occasional deadheading, quickly improving your overall display.

Prune away suckers and branching that forms at the base or on the trunk each year too. Pruning Roses allows for better, bushier growth each year and stimulates new growth. Learn about winterizing, and un-wintering your Roses in our Garden Blog, plus all the tips and tricks you need when pruning your new prize Rose bush!

• Full Sun
• Moist Enriched Well-Drained Soil
• Regular Fertility & Watering
• Prune Early Spring
• Mulch Very Well

Bred by Robert Holmes in Great Britain in 1976, and named in honor of his wife, Sally Holmes Climbing Rose will bring as much joy as we can imagine Sally did for her doting husband! Order this vigorous vertical bloomer for your landscape today from the experts at NatureHills.com!