My plant was grown on its own roots. After a few years more (and several winters with temperatures below zero F) it has canes taller than 20 feet. They are strong and thick.. I don't know how to reach them to prune them!
This rose in my garden is a huge monster, growing at least 15 feet tall and even wider than 15 feet. It has mainly a spring bloom that lasts for 6 weeks. I should prune to see if it would help with a second bloom.
Listed as fragrant foliage but I can't find any references or any comments to that effect? Can anyone confirm and if so of what does the foliage smell of?
I certainly can't confirm that. I have a note that this file for 'Roundelay Climbing' was in existence with no breeder or date at the time when I added the discoverer of Langbecker. Peter Cox (1999 ref) says leathery foliage, and I have just gone out and smelled and crushed a leathery leaf of the bush 'Roundelay'. Not a sausage or a whiff of anything. I will change fragrant foliage to fragrant bloom.
It's what I suspected, an error along the way, but given this is a sport it wasn't out of the realm of possibility given unusual sports that have happened in rose history.
