Large Flowered Climbing Rose 'Golden Showers'

I planted two of these about 4 years ago in spring in full sun on two separate trellis' 4'wx8'H alongside 2 Blaze climbing roses. The fir...Read Morest year they got established and grew a little. The second year they sprouted up about 4ft and flowered lightly. They also got blackspot very bad with our wet spring weather we get every year. Third year they really shot up to about 8ft or more. Not sure exactly because I zig-zagged it across my trellis with the Blaze rose. It flowered about 50 flowers each plant for the whole season and got a very bad case of blackspot. This year we had a very severe winter and one of them died completely and the other only had one cane that barely survived. Now it has blackspot again. Spraying it for the blackspot again hoping to revive the little bit that is left. The Blaze rose planted right next to both of them made it through winter with no problems and is blooming profusely although it has blackspot too. I would say this rose would do wonderfully in a drier, hotter climate. Not sure why it died or barely survived considering it is rated 2 zones lower than mine. It has not been a good performer for me and I am contemplating taking out the one that barely survived and replacing with a different rose that won't get blackspot as bad and can tolerate the cold winds we have here better.

The 2 1/2" blooms are a true yellow - look like "Spring". I bought it as a shrub rose and was told it would grow as a tall shrub or a cl...Read Moreimber and it is really tall - about 7' in it's second season. I will probably have to move it to a trellis somewhere in my yard.
It does get quite a bit of black spot in my humid area.
The blooms are a light to moderate fragrance.

I've got mine up against an east facing stockade fence, it gives me shady wet roots and full sun for the top of the plant most of the day...Read More. It is 3 years old now and trained across the top of my fence for at least 10 feet. Lots of blooms and easy care-3-5" of mulch, feed it twice a year and deadhead away and it just keeps blooming.I also planted clematis x jackmanii next to it and they do well together and when they are both in full flower it looks awesome.