Iceberg Climbing Rose

What could possibly compare with the sight of brilliant blooms in your yard, shimmering in the summer sun as they cast a spicy sweet scent upon the afternoon breeze? With pollinators flitting from blossom to blossom, while a bouquet sits on your bistro table in its shade, also brimming in glorious white blooms!

The snow white blooms with a blushing-bride pink sheen, exploding by the hundreds on the long canes of this Rose! With a lush backdrop of glossy green leaves, it's truly a romantic experience!

Wonderfully hardy and disease-resistant throughout USDA planting zones 5 to 9, the double Floribunda-like blooms show up all summer through fall. The strong canes are flexible and train well, making it an easy Climbing Rose to include in your landscape!

How to Use Iceberg Climbing Rose In The Landscape

The supple canes of the Iceberg Climbing Rose are fantastically easy to get to drape over a wall or picket fence, ramble up your arbor, or reach up front porch posts with no worry about messing up your painted walls or posts. Add a trellis on the corner of your home's foundation, or over the door of an outbuilding and let Iceberg drape itself romantically while softening hard edges.

Adorn a garden gate or arbor with these glimmering blooms or train Iceberg up a trellis. Train the canes up a fence so the dark green foliage creates fantastic privacy and screening! Hide that eyesore chainlink and transform it into something spectacular! This is the perfect Cottage Garden specimen when trained onto a lattice or obelisk, melding into formal and informal gardens equally!

The size makes Iceberg perfect for containers! Allowing you to keep the delicate fragrance close by! With a scent that is not too strong or sweet but just the right spicy, sweet honeyed scent for drawing Pollinators to your yard. A potted Iceberg Climbing Rose will add shade and privacy to a balcony or patio in the sun!

What better way to screen off an entire section of your yard? Create beautiful outdoor garden room 'walls' with regularly spaced plantings of Iceberg Climbing Rose and relax in perfumed seclusion in your lawn chair or seating area!

Need to take things up a notch? Fill a garden bed with regularly spaced Iceberg Climbing Roses alternating with the Iceberg Rose Tree and surround them with Iceberg Rose bushes with pops of brilliantly hued Delphinium, Hollyhocks, and other showy perennials!

• Radiant Snow White Flowers With An Occasional Pink Blush
• Lovely Cut Flowers - Amazing Fragrance!
• Glossy Dark Green Foliage
• Strong Moderately-Sized Canes
• Vertical Ornamental, Specimen & Works Well in Containers

#ProPlantTips For Care

Provide Roses with full sun so they can bloom their best, favoring the drying power of the morning sun! Plant in an enriched, organic, well-draining soil throughout all of USDA zones 5-10. Iceberg doesn't expect much other than regular watering and yearly fertilizer! Although a 3-4 inch deep layer of mulch keeps the foliage cleaner, the roots insulated, and keeps moisture in the ground more consistently.

Be patient when you first get it, as it might take one year for it to acclimate to your garden. Once it does though, watch out - the second season will start a show that won't stop! Provide moderate, yet consistent moisture throughout the year, but keep your Rose free of soggy soil.

Don't try to confine this hearty grower. It loves having free reign and rewards you for years with more and more blooms every season!

• Full Sun For Best Results
• Enriched Well-Drained Soil
• Regular Fertilizer & Watering Schedule
• Good Disease Resistance
• Low Maintenance & Easy Care
• Vigorous Grower!

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 to remove any dead or diseased branches. It is virtually disease-free so that nasty black spot isn't a problem. Check out unwintering tips in our Garden Blog.

This is a Rose that you can plant and forget! We guarantee you won't forget this showpiece in your garden! Order the Iceberg Climbing Rose today at NatureHills.com!