Climbers that won't quit: Re: Re: Re: red or pink z5 hardy climbers as good as New Dawn?

» CarolWallace - Re: Re: Re: red or pink z5 hardy climbers as good as New Dawn?

In response to message posted by stlgal:

Your bizarre mold isn't really a humidity thing. They are what you call slime molds (we get them here, too) and they are almost always found on mulch that is beginning to decompose. They are completely harmless and will disintegrate in a few days if just left alone. Actually, they are only a sign that your mulch is doing what it should be doing.

For cascading down a wall as opposed to climbing I'd lok at either groundover roses or ramblers. Although I'm not sure how many ramblers there are out there with repeat blooms.

The only other rose company I can think of that seems to really breed for easy care and disease resistance is Tesselaer (I am not certain I spelled that right.) He's out of Australia but his roses are big over here. I'm blocking on the name but they were originally easy to spot as they came in bright, pink pots. They come in white, pink and a deeper pink and are marketed as groundcover roses.

I was going to send you to the place where I got many of mine - Rosaraie at Bayfields - because the catalog was so good about classifying roses according to hardiness and use - but discovered to my dismay when I went to the site that the woner, Lloyd Brace, retired this year. Let me poke around and see if I can find another, equally good catalog. I have two in mind, if I can only find them and if they are as informative as when I last shopped them.

-- posted by CarolWallace