Q. What's your best recommendation for hardy, disease-resistant climbing roses in our climate?-David Solberg, Fargo A. Many climbing roses advertised for other regions lack winter hardiness, and are ...

Dear Master Gardener: I bought a beautiful trellis on a closeout sale last fall and would like to plant a climbing rose. Is it too cold up here for climbing roses and are they difficult to grow?

Dear Master Gardener: I bought a beautiful trellis on a closeout sale last fall and would like to plant a climbing rose. Is it too cold up here for climbing roses and are they difficult to grow?

Everyone loves roses, whether it's an elegant bush of bright red blooms or a bed of pink blossoms. Another way to add roses to your garden is via the climbing variety, which can grow along fences, ...

SQ: We have a split-rail fence that we would like to make more attractive. We know we would like climbing roses on it, but we are not sure we are up to all the spraying, pruning and winter protection ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...