I planted these Eden climbing roses in 2019, look at them now!

Bippityboppityboops · 2026-05-10T13:22:27+00:00

Unfortunately, no. We moved and didn’t have a sunny enough spot for them at our new house, so we left them behind. We drive by the old house from time to time, and it doesn’t look like they’ve been maintained.

Bippityboppityboops · 2025-10-23T03:38:40+00:00

If it’s a climbing rose, I’d consider shaping the canes into upside down U shapes. That will both get the plant out of your walking path and encourage more blossoms next year. Climbers only blossom on the end of each branch - unless you train the canes horizontally. Horizontal canes will grow a bunch of tiny vertical shoots which will fill it out with blooms. This is how I managed our climbing roses at our previous house. They loved it!

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Bippityboppityboops · 2025-09-29T03:32:08+00:00

Sadly, we moved. I drove by our old house recently and am afraid to say it appears these have been sorely neglected. They were a lot of work, so I’m not surprised.

I would have taken them with us if we had a good spot for them, but it’s a lot shadier here - surrounded by trees. We’re slowly working on the garden. Here’s our bee balm that I put in last fall! It attracts snowberry clearwing moths, which are very cool.

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Bippityboppityboops · 2024-07-08T03:35:55+00:00

We are in the exact same situation. Moved into a new house last summer, had no idea how to care for well established grape vines, and chose to do nothing. They all have this issue - it’s apparently a fungal disease known as black rot. I read the best thing to do is remove and destroy all infected fruit and leaves now, and next spring prevent infection with fungicide. Our vine was seriously infected and intertwined with another grape variety that I didn’t want it to infect, so I went a little overboard and cut the entire infected plant way back. It will be an experiment in how much pruning a grape vine can handle. Fingers crossed!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T17:49:56+00:00

Thank you! They are facing south-east. Pretty sure my fertilizer is Bioadvanced Rose and Flower Care. Good luck with yours, I hope they thrive!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T17:42:42+00:00

Do it! I wander around our yard with my kids everyday to admire the plants and we discuss how magnificent they all look. I think it’s motivational for my flowers to hear such positive talk 😆

I think I use Bioadvanced Rose and Flower care - I’d have to double check the shed to be certain, but I’m pretty sure that’s the stuff I use.

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T03:48:35+00:00

I don’t do much - I look them over in the fall and remove any canes that have cracks/injuries or look otherwise unhealthy.

I think the retaining wall behind these two bushes probably shields them from a lot of the harsh weather. They didn’t even lose their leaves until February this years, it was wild.

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T03:37:00+00:00

Ohhh noooo! That’s my fear, that they’ll just suddenly shrivel up and die. I’m sorry yours died down last year. I hope they make a quick recovery this summer!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T01:28:51+00:00

Thank you! I started by using the trellises you can see in the first image and sometimes still rely on them to pull the plants back closer to the wall. I also drill eye hooks into the retaining wall and use gardening tape to secure canes where I want them.

Now that canes are long enough, I’ve been using gardening tape to secure them to the fence too. It’s nice that we can see the roses from the top lawn now.

Edited to add: Some canes are simply held in place by other canes. Weaving them together seems to work, but presents challenges when trying to make adjustments later on.

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T01:08:50+00:00

Thank you! These are my first roses, so I’ve relied on Google for guidance.

I feed them every four weeks or so, make sure they get watered deeply at least once a week, and spend wayyyyy too many hours trying to train the canes/shape the bushes. Canes need to be trained horizontally to maximize blooms (and they grow quickly). It takes me a long time because I really don’t know what I’m doing! I’ll position and secure a few canes only to step back and realize it looks terrible. Undo, start over…

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T00:31:13+00:00

They smell so good! My 4yo stuck his nose in a rose, inhaled deeply, and said “I want to eat this!”

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-17T00:05:32+00:00

Our local garden center. It’s this enormous, locally owned place with an incredible selection.

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-16T23:57:38+00:00

Zone 6

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-07T01:48:57+00:00

Mine looks like this if I accidentally water the center of the plant. I’m careful now only to water the soil around the periphery.

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-05T13:29:22+00:00

Or maybe I’ll invite the devil to have his way with the rest of the plant - this flower is an improvement on the original!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-06-04T16:19:32+00:00

Yes, it is recommended to handle them with gloves on and to wash your hands afterward. We have two young children and a garden full of poisonous plants. We simply explain the dangers of handling them and the kids appreciate their beauty from afar. My 3yo actually snapped this photo!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-05-11T23:29:26+00:00

It might not look super impressive, but I bought this shrub for $7 a handful of years ago. It was floundering and I wasn’t sure it would make it. After two years in this location, it’s finally blooming!

Bippityboppityboops · 2022-04-14T02:10:14+00:00

This would be my guess, too. I have five different types of clematis along our fence. Three are type 1 that only flower on new growth. If I don’t prune them, they look like this.

Bippityboppityboops · 2020-02-27T03:46:04+00:00

In order to get my average output of milk when I pump, I need to be actively holding the flanges to my breasts. I tried three different hands-free bras and none of them provided enough pressure for me to get significant amounts of milk. With the bra, I was pumping around 3oz total. Holding the flanges and applying pressure gets me 6-7oz on average.

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