Beginner Gardening: Teddy's plants, 1 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
No one tells you how to keep it alive because invasives don't need much help to grow. If you intend to keep it, you must control it. As ecrane says, you might be much happier digging out that bush and replacing it with a more domesticated type bush.

If I could make a suggestion, why not look for a climber that is a rebloomer that you can trellis. It's probably a little more old fashioned, not the knockout or tea hybrids. Every year I cut down my Fourth of July rose, and it comes back and blooms all summer for me every year. I know it is a grafted bush, very hardy. I think it only has 2-3 rows of petals, but it continues to produce all summer long. I have a couple of other similar climbers that I trim down every year. Lots of blooms, all summer long.