White Dawn® Climbing Rose

Brighten your landscape with the showy, fragrant blooms of the White Dawn® Climbing Rose (Rosa 'White Dawn')! These gorgeous, vigorous rambling climbers will be absolutely covered in ruffled, ivory-white blooms with up to 35 petals apiece!

Although the large, semi-double blooms of White Dawn® Rose resemble Gardenia, they feature a sweet Rose scent and high-contrast dark green foliage. Enjoy the blooms in your garden, or cut them for incredible floral arrangements indoors! 

One of the most disease-resistant Climbing Roses, White Dawn® produces wave after wave of white blooms from late spring through fall. Leave the last blooming flush of the autumn season to develop into pretty red hips for birds and winter decoration! Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 5 to 9, this wonderful climbing ornamental has strong, flexible canes for easy landscape décor!

Planting and Application:

Use White Dawn® as an effective privacy screen on a trellis, a boon for small space gardens! You get a lot of coverage from White Dawn®, in exchange for a minimal footprint and vertical interest anywhere in the sun! Turn an eyesore into a feature. Old chain link fences and TV antennae can become a bower of snowy, fragrant blooms! These white blossoms are a must-have for vertical interest in a Moon Garden.

Even a single White Dawn® Rose can be trained to cover a tall tower, pillar, or obelisk. Place these garden structures in your mixed garden border and achieve year-round interest! Tie Climbing Rose canes at a 45-degree angle to your sturdy structure for the most prolific flowering. Flexible landscape ties are strong, but won't bind the canes too tightly.

On slopes, try Climbing Roses as an effective groundcover and barrier planting! Space them four feet apart on center, measuring from the center of one to the center of the next. Use it to create privacy and living walls covered in fragrant Rose wallpaper, or cover unsightly siding, and fences, and add shade to seating areas with a Climbing Rose placed at key locations around your landscape.

• Clusters of Creamy White Roses
• Lovely Rose Fragrance
• Lush Green Foliage & Strong Canes
• Fast Growing Tall & Wide Form
• Shade, Vertical Specimens, Living Walls & Upright Garden Accents!

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Choose a planting site with full sun and well-drained soil. Give Roses a consistent, even amount of water and regular Rose food to support the abundant bloom production. Add Nature Hills Root Booster to the planting hole to provide a life-long resource, and keep your Rose roots happy with a 3-4 inch thick layer of arborist bark chips.

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.

Read all you need about pruning Roses, winterizing Roses, and un-wintering Roses in spring in our #ProPlantTips Garden Blog! Every three years, practice renewal pruning to keep White Dawn® Climbing Rose growing and blooming vigorously. Untie the canes after the first flush of flowers is finished, then prune the oldest, thickest canes out at ground level and retie the young, thin canes.

• Full Sun
• Moderate Moisture & Regular Fertility
• Appreciates Enriched Well-Drained Soil & Mulched Beds
• Easy to Grow & Train
• Prune Early Spring

Grow vertical walls of delightful white blossoms with the White Dawn® Climbing Rose at NatureHills.com! Fragrance, bright blooms, and small-footprint flowering ornamentals are waiting for you today!

Climbing Rose FAQs

Where Is The Best Place To Plant Roses?

Roses need a protected location and prefer full sun. They favor the drying power of the morning sun and flower best in 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 Roses Come Back Every Year?

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

How Do I Find Rose Bushes & Trees 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 Tree-form 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.