Roses-climbers or ramblers?

[Edith]

I want a rose to provide interest to the top of a smallish shed. My plan would be to give it something to scramble up, and then net the top of the shed. I'm fine with pruning it and so on to get a specific shape-I'm more used to pruning fruit trees but I'm assuming with instructions it won't be too hard.

My questions are

1. Would this work?

2. The shed is around 10 ft high, I think. Whatever standard size shed come in. What kind of rose would I need-rambling or climbing?

3. If anyone has any specific recommendations either for lovely roses or reliable websites, that would be great! One thing is that it needs to be both flowering over a long season and highly scented. Right now I'm looking at "‘Madame Grégoire Staechelin’".

4. Oh the shed roof is partially shaded. Would this be a problem?

[VirginVegGrower]

Take a look at both David Austin Roses and Peter Beales Roses - they have websites. Ramblers will take your shed over, if it was me, I would look at a climber.

[Thelma Sanders]

Madame Grégoire Staechelin only flowers once in June - no repeating, and can grow easily to 20ft if she's happy (I have her growing round my door )

I think you need something less vigourous and a climber rather than a rambler. most ramblers only flower once, although they absolutely smother themselves with bloom when they do.

[Edith]

Thanks both!

The problem seems to be that most roses only grow to max 8 ft. This might sound like a daft question but if I don't want her to grow to 20 ft, couldn't I just not provide support, and prune?

TBH I'm totally fine with a rose taking my shed over, provided I can get in the door and look out of the windows occasionally (we sometimes work in the shed, rather than just storing stuff there). But she is welcome to the roof...

The big problem though seems to me to be the once only blooming, I'd like a bit more than that really.

Have spent quite a happy hour now on the David Austin website...

[Thelma Sanders]

Have a look at Peter Beales site and set height (on lefthand side) for 3-3.99m it shows 133 matches
Roses. Bare root and container, climbing, rambling, bush and shrub roses from Peter Beales Roses Ltd

[Angeldon]

I can definitely recommend New Dawn - Lovely fragrance, responds well to pruning, flowers all summer and good disease resistance.

[Two_Sheds]

any specific recommendations either for lovely roses ...the shed roof is partially shaded.

I only grow Climbing Iceberg. It's not scented (or not much) but is very prolific, and very very vigorous. It came from one of the pound shops in 2008, and is now 12ft wide and well over 8ft tall (though I prune it back to the 6ft fence).

I took cuttings of it and stuck one in the shady spots of the garden: the east facing one is romping away (sun in the morning only).

[PyreneesPlot]

We have a new Mermaid (climber) up a pergola - planted out this time last year and less than a meter tall, she made 2m up and 2m along by the end of the summer. The bottom bit, so I guess wood from the previous year, flowered from June until November.