Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose features showy clusters of fragrant rose flowers with pink overtones along the branches from mid spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 6 feet. As a climbing rose | it can be leggy near the base and may be concealed by underplanting with lower-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence | trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it | or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This woody vine does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. To help this plant achieve its best flowering performance | periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 15'Hx6'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are rose with strong fragrance

Flowers from mid spring to early fall

Attracts bees

Zone 4a

Likes well drained soil