FIrst, you need to WAIT. If you only planted these roses a month ago, they have not even settled in yet, no matter which roses they are. Make sure they have enough water, and leave them alone. I presume that the new growth you and blooming you are seeing is mostly not terribly long canes that are not terribly big around? When they really decide to climb (which may take many months or a few years), they will suddenly start putting out one or more larger, long canes. Sometimes this frightens people, the canes grow so fast and tall. At that point, yes, to get the most flowers you can GENTLY pull the canes to as horizontal as you can get them without damaging them, and tie the to the lattice. They will put out blooms all along their length that way, instead of just one at the top. Do post pics on here of the bushes and the blooms - someone will probably recognize them. Jackie

You can just snap the spent flower off. I try not to remove leaves from young plants-- they are needed for growth.

Wow, sydseeds that is amazing. Did a blanket of your winter snows come early and cover them for a long period, and then after they broke dormancy in the spring, did the temps stay above 32 degrees F. all during your early spring? If so, those conditions could be an improvement over what occured over our winter and early spring. Though we did not get as cold as your zone, Our trees and shrubs were stressed by temps swinging back and forth below and above freezing many times during the winter. Then when temps warmed enough for the trees and shrubs to break dormancy the night temps dropped below freezing again. That actually happened in early spring 2006 and twice in spring 2007 with the latter one dropping low enough to be a hard freeze. Since there was no blanket of snow cover during those times, such conditions caused lots of death to many of even our established trees and shrubs. If you took the cuttings in late summer, the twigs must have been much thicker than mine taken in spring just prior to my shrub beginning to produce bloom buds this year. Is that true? I would be a lot less concerned about mine if their main stems had thickened up some this Summer. Maybe this fall, they can get a little stronger by being out in full morning sun and afternoon shade. This is about the second week for them in the new location, and they do seem to be responding well. Anyway, thanks again for your encouraging report about how tough the hardy RoS cultivars are even in your much colder zone.

I agree, I don't like version 2 where you alternated. Did you leave those or pull them? Here is a picture of mine to help me explain the situation: So I can't use the technique of having the bullnosed pieces sit across the front of the wall and kill into them. I would like to have the bullnose be on the the long wall and have the tiles on the little wing wall kill into them. Because subway is staggered (not the proper name, but I'm sure you know what I mean), every other piece along the corner will be a half piece. Daltile doesn't make a 3x3 bullnose, so we'll need to cut down 3x6 bullnose. So the top piece will be a 3x6 with a bullnose on the 3 side. The next piece will be a 3x6 bullnose on the 3 side, but cut to 3x3 and set with the bullnose on the corner. So the right side of it will be a cut edge. So should I butt a factory edge up to that cut edge? Won't that look bad? (BTW, when I say "should I", I really mean my GC's very competent tile guys.) As always, my thanks! Anita