Climbing Polyanthas

Weeping China Doll

Clotilde Soupert

Hermann Schmidt

Contributing to the great array of climbers available today, these offer choices today’s gardeners rarely see: excellent foliage, good rebloom and the charming clustering and small flowers that mark the Polys. Some of these might well be placed among the Hybrid Musks, considering their habits of growth, fragrance and manner of blooming, as well as their ancestry.

Habit

The climbing Polyanthas are simply divided by habit into two groups (left to right, above).

(E.g., Phyllis Bide) Those that produce a multitude of long lithe canes and bloom all over. [PolCl #1]
(E.g., Climbing Orange Triumph) Those that tend to send up long, climbing canes from which flowering laterals are produced, often proving to be less remontant than the first group. [PolCl #2]

Brackets refer to Explanatory Information page.
Climbing Polyantha roses original Book of Roses pages: VCG_Climbing Polyanthas.pdf

Ginger, Fl

Gold Cup

Frau Astrid Spaeth

Lichterloe

Apricot Moon

Little Darling

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About TFoVR

TFoVR owns and maintains the historic roses in our collection, currently located in Sebastopol, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. Rosarians world-wide consider the collection to be one of the most comprehensive multiple-class collections of old roses ever assembled. Of particular note — the Hybrid Perpetuals, Bourbons, Gallicas, Hybrid Chinas, Teas, Noisettes and Chinas — are among the most complete in North America and the old Hybrid Teas include an extensive group of Pernetianas.