Be sure to consider their mature size before selecting a rose variety.

Climbing roses also offer a wide array of possibilities in terms of color, flowers (single or double), fragrance, disease resistance, etc.

Therefore, you may want to consider them over the large-flowered ones. Small-flowered clematis usually have a profusion of smaller flowers, which may be scented, and are rarely affected by wilt.

Large-flowered clematis are rarely fragrant and may suffer from wilt, a disease specific to clematis.

The diverse clematis family provides you with a wide choice in terms of flower size (large, small, single, double) and shapes (cross-shaped, bell-shaped, star-shaped), color (purple, blue, pink, red, white or bicolor), fragrance, disease-resistance.

When pairing roses and clematis, you need to consider size, color, fragrance, and timing of their respective blooms.

You also benefit from this companionship in terms of floral display. If both roses and clematis bloom during the same period, you get twice the flower power and enrich the color palette of one single garden spot. If you select roses and clematis with different flowering periods, you will be extending their spectacular color show over a longer period of time. They often are of similar sizes with the result that neither swamps the other. They also have the same natural needs, require the same growing conditions (rich soil, moist, well-drained soils) and benefit from the same fertilizers. They happily share the same arch, trellis, pergola, doorway or garden wall, both reaching for the sun and providing a lush vertical floral display. Climbing roses and clematis are perfect companions.

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