Perennial Blue

Highly recommended for large rose arches

I planted one Perennial Blue on the left and one on the right of the large rose arch. The right one grew very vigorously straight away, the left side was reluctant at first but has caught up completely.
In my garden I have 86 roses, including a red Perennial. While my roses had rust and yellow leaves this year, I didn't even find aphids on my rose arch, which is by now huge. The flowers last a long time and are truly countless. I cut off the spent ones, and so I have a flowering arch again and again right up to autumn.
I had to prune the red one back hard in spring because, stupidly, I had given it a climbing support that was too small and weak. A reinforcing mesh mat bent into a square is not pretty, but ideal; after a while you no longer see it.

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Absolute dream

This beautiful rose stands at my place on the arch on the south side of the house, completely exposed to the wind in the rough Alpine foothills. It has lovely light-green, pointed foliage and flowers in masses. Its blooms smell wonderfully of lime blossom and attract bees and bumblebees as if by magic, so that the lush beauty hums and buzzes.
It has never been ill, has never frozen back (last winter we had -20° C) and if you don't prune it, it forms pretty little rose hips, which also adorn the rose in winter. The stems are flexible and it has an urge to grow somewhat wider as well, which is why I suspect it could also grow as a lovely shrub.

Actually I have a spot on the terrace for sitting outside, but it is so lovely to sit under this rose that I really only spend time at the rose arch now.

By the way, the combination with the "Donaunymhe" looks especially beautiful: its blooms are shaped very similarly, but are delicate pink and also smell wonderful.

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