This week’s photo challenge is enveloped. Once happily established, a climbing rose will cover its support, then smother it with blooms. Rosarians explain that the trick is to match the potential size of the plant with the scale of the structure you want to clothe. Choose a rose that is too vigorous and you’ll have the heartbreak of cutting many healthy flowering stems away. Get it right and you’re in for a treat!
I’m posting these pictures of climbing and rambling roses with a nod to my friends who I know will be putting the final touches to their rose display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show later today – have fun and good luck!
I hope you enjoy the show if you’re lucky enough to be going this year.
Susan Rushton 
Love, love, love climbing roses! Thank you!
Me too – contented roses are such generous plants, and even the spindliest climbing rose has a sense of style!
I’ll be there on Tuesday. I would say with bells on, but I think I’ll be needing a rain coat instead!
I can sense your excitement – if it rains, you can always shelter in the Grand Pavilion! I’ll be looking out for your pictures.
how romantic
Glorious!!
Beautiful healthy and very happy roses 🙂
Oooo! Chelsea! Have a wonderful time. Maybe I can fit it in next year.
Good advice about the climbing roses. We were given two Wedding Day roses on our wedding day. We have since moved. They’ve probably pulled down the trellis they were on!
Do you know, I nearly warned against Wedding Day when I was posting! It’s a wonderful rose if you’ve got a spare 40ft (12m). Receiving two was a generous present in more ways than one! I’ll not be at Chelsea this year, sadly, though I’m planning to visit Hampton Court.
So pretty🌸🌸
Love Love Love this post. I love the thought of being enveloped in roses!
Thank you – I am sure you come pretty close to it some days!
The climbing roses are a treat for the eyes. We don’t get to see them in India except at certain places developed by the British as “hill stations”, mostly in the lower Himalayas and Nilgiris.
Beautiful pictures! Thanks for your like on my Tiptoeing… since that is the reason I found you. Nice place to browse in.
Thanks Oneta!