Here are some pictures of our rambling rose , Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ on our Magnolia Tree, enjoying the summer sun. In the last two years, it’s started to go rampant, and produce many flowers, which the bumblebees enjoy. It also has a lovely old rose scent.
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Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ in flower on the Magnolia Tree
Friday, July 12th, 2013Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ in flower
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Pruning out suckers – Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’
Friday, June 26th, 2009We purchased a climbing rose from R.V.Roger Ltd Rose Nursery, Pickering last year, to add some colour to the magnolia tree in the summer, after the tree had long since flowered in the spring. The climber we purchased is called Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’, described as a huge and very vigorous climbing and scrambling rose; with creamy-white scented flowers. We’ve been regularly checking on it’s progress last winter, and early spring waiting for it to flower, within the last few weeks the plant suddenly started to put on massive growth, which comparing the growth with the rest of the plant, I suspect this was a sucker from the host plant, which has grown from beneath the graft.
I debated long and hard, and on inspection I think it’s a sucker, so proceeded to cut it off.
It’s almost four feet in length.
So I removed it, and also pruned out some other black wood. I chopped the sucker up into small lengths, and potted up in the greenhouse, and we will see if they root! (well it’s worth a try!)