Hybrid Multiflora, Large Flowered Climbing Rose 'Blaze'

This cultivar was a pioneer when it was introduced in 1932. It remains popular because it is so well known, though there are now many bet...Read Moreter red climbing roses.

Very susceptible to black spot, this defoliates for the rest of the season if I skip the fungicide spray for a few weeks.

Flowers are small (2.5") and lack fragrance. They open mid-red but the color rapidly shifts towards purple, not true red.

It is much hardier than indicated above, to Z4.

For a red climber, I much prefer 'Amadeus'.

I've had several Blaze climbers over the years at different locations. They do fine in Zone 4 with no protection whatsoever. I planted ...Read Moreone in the Spring of 2013, got a few blooms, and nothing the rest of the year. This Spring (2014) it took off and it's loaded with bright red roses. Give it good, well prepared soil, fertilizer and water and you won't be disappointed with its performance.

I have had this climbing rose for 3 years now. I have it in full sun growing up a trellis with golden showers climbing rose next to it. T...Read Morehe first year it didn't do much. Last year it grew about 4ft and had a few blooms. This year I added a soaker hose to my garden and also used liquid fertilizer on it as well as sprinkling 10-10-10 at the root zone. It is now about 8ft and has tons of buds on it already and it's just the beginning of the growing season. Last year it had a few blooms at a time, but this year it is covered in buds. Can't wait to see how great it will be this year. No problems or issues with it, other than a slow start. Oh, also..train it horizontally across the trellis in zig zag for better and more blooms. Fantastic!

UPDATE: June-2014:This winter has been pretty severe in my area. Not to mention the crazy ups and downs of our temps from below freezing up to the 70's in one day all early spring. This rose came through with flying colors. Very little damage when many other plants had lots. It has leafed out and is now blooming profusely. This year it did get blackspot pretty bad already with our wet spring weather. Sprayed it and am hoping it recovers from the blackspot and keep on a bloomin. LOVE this rose!

My great-grandfather planted this rose in 1933 in front of our garage. I have a picture of my father (age 4) and behind him is that rose ...Read Moreat about 3' tall starting to go up the trellis. I went over to Dad's house several years ago and he asked what I'd been doing. My arms were all scratched and bleeding. I told him that I'd been pruning the "demon rose". He just laughed himself silly. When I asked him what was so funny, he told me that he'd always hated that rose, too. It was Dad's chore, growing up, to prune it so he could, literally, feel my pain. The rose is now about 75 years old, healthy, huge and as cantankerous as ever. The rose is so large (it outgrew the trellis about 30 years ago) it just goes up onto the garage roof and lays there, blooming like mad, throughout the summer. It's now the middle of Nov. and blooms are still coming on. It gets morning and early afternoon sun but shade through the hottest part of the day, it gets watered when it rains, fertilized twice a season with 10-10-10, and pruned to control direction of growth and remove dead canes and spent blossoms. I think it's about time to teach my daughter how to "prune" this monster...