Apple Blossom - bought this rose because the name got stuck in my head after Taddy kept posting about her unidentified rose that may or maynot be Apple Blossom. In the end, hers turned out to be Dawson and I ended up with a vigourous multiflora Apple Blossom, growing more than 2 meters in 12 months that I had just planted another one to grow it up a tree because of its long lasting rain resistant blooms. Very pliable stems, beautiful foliage and so far disease free. 
New Dawn - the most common rose in Switzerland, and can be seen all over the place scrambling over fences and one of those roses that are sold even by supermarket chains. I once went to shop for food but ended up coming home with a bread and 6 New Dawn. A row of 2 and a half metres wide arch tunnel was later brought in to the eastern side of the garden for New Dawn to greet the raising sun at the break of dawn. The New dawn arch tunnel area is quite narrow as it is a small terraced area which connect the lower ground floor guest room to the steps leading up to the middle kitchen patio terrace which is only one floor building difference. 6 New Dawn in that space proved to be too small for such a rampant grower like New Dawn, throwing canes in all directions with hooked thorns that I had to move them all to several areas. 3 is growing into the hedge and the other 3 scrambling up a tree. One out of the 3 that is growing up a tree is growing in dapple shade of the woodland with no direct sun at all and within a season, had grown in leaps and bounds. This one seem to be doing much better than the other 2 which receive full day sun on a south facing aspect.
Rambling Rector - imagine waking up on Sunday morning and sit underneath the pergola sipping wake up coffee while listenening to birds songs, inhaling the intense fragrance of this rose that's appeared in abundance of trusses?
It must be heavenly, but I didn't know how worthwhile this rose was when I first got it. I had it planted in the hedgerow to scramble the evergreen hedge at the far end of the garden.
A new 3 X3 metre open structure pavilion is now planted with a second rambling rector to ramble and scramble and hopefully it will cover the whole structure as soon as possible. 
Thalia Remontant came to the garden by accident. It was a replacement rose after an order that went all confused. The blooms resemble the trusses of white fairy but the plant is huge in comparison. 3 meters tall while the white fairy is so much shorter and and more like a procumbent in character. Thalia is planted at the 90 degrees corner of the hedge to scramble around but that corner had gone a bit thick and very shady for most part of the day. Nevertheless, this rose seem fine with the surrounding green and the white blooms kind of brighten up the dark and boring corner pretty well. .
If my Treasure Trove is to grow straight up stiff like a tree, it can easily reach the height of 5 meters (15 feet) high, and to think that this rose is the offspring of Felipes Kiftsgate, Treasure Trove has the potential to get as enormous as its parent Felipes Kiftsgate. That is how wide this rose has reached weaving and rambling into the evergreen hedge. In wingspan direction the length it covered is double that. I had it cut back because it was in tangle with other roses. The flowers are scented and its trusses and colourings reminded me of trusses on Ghislaine de Feligonde but the leaves are much bigger and the canes are much stiffer than the weepy G.d.F
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