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Designing a Shade-Tolerant Rose Garden: Best Ramblers, Climbers, and Shrubs for Partial Sun

Zephirine Drouhin in Shade?

Grows, but blooms poorly and gets severe black spot. Not recommended.

Best for Partial Shade (4 hrs sun / all-day dappled)

Hybrid Musks

Felicia, Moonlight, Cornelia, Prosperity (Cornelia floppy; others ~6 ft, arching, continuous bloom).

Noisettes

Strong scent, shade-tolerant.

Sun-Loving Hybrid Teas (for your 8-hr beds)

Elina, Frederick Mistral, Ingrid Bergman, Royal William, Sunset Celebration, Touch of Class, Valencia — all vigorous, disease-resistant.

Disease-Resistant Floribundas

Gene Boerner, Tournament of Roses, Sun Sprite, Meilland Romantica series.

Top David Austins (choose carefully—some get black spot)

Abraham Darby, A Shropshire Lad, Heritage, Charles Austin, James Galway, Jude the Obscure, Molineux, St. Swithun, Sweet Juliet, William Shakespeare 2000.

Climbers

Dublin Bay, New Dawn, Autumn Sunset, Westerland, Aloha, Gold Star, High Hopes, Meg (once-blooming, huge singles), Parade, Rosy Mantle, Sympathie.

Ramblers

Alberic Barbier, Francois Juranville, Gardenia.

Sources: HelpMeFind.com, Palatine Roses, Roses Unlimited, Ashdown Roses.

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