Large Flowered Climbing Rose 'America'

On Nov 11, 2015, brandoncakes from Kailua, HI wrote:

Beautiful salmon pink blooms with an intense fragrance! Constant bloomer, shooting out buds every few months. I bought this rose as a barefoot from Weeks, and it's doing quite well. Not growing as tall I expected, but it's still only in its first year here in Hawaii. She loves sun, so don't leave her in the shade too long.

On Nov 11, 2012, AZ_Alkmaar from Westfield, IN wrote:

Although 'America' is a beautiful rose, it is extremely susceptible to Black spot disease. I have had it for the past three years, and this summer of 2012, it got infected starting May and all summer it had been leafless. I beleive partially it happened because it is planted between two prune bushes and there had been limited air circulation. I will transplant it coming spring and give it another chance, if it continues to get sick, I will dicard it. I do not understand why this plant is listed here as a Black Spot resistant?!....

On Apr 6, 2009, Joan from Belfield, ND (Zone 4a) wrote:

On Jun 21, 2006, garden6 from Lansing, KS (Zone 5b) wrote:

This rose is doing very well with a heavy mulch cover and light shelter from the wind provided by the trellis. I planted this potted rose during a summer sale. I also added a whole raw egg at the base of the roots during planting. A neighbor shared that this would do wonders for the rose. Seems to be working.

On May 16, 2005, Gindee77 from Hampton, IL (Zone 5a) wrote:

This was my very first climber and it's done beautifully. It survives winter with protection and blooms a lot. The only draw back is that it tends to get black spot late in the season.

On May 21, 2004, flwrlvr from Sargent, NE wrote:

The original builder of my current country residence loved plants and trees (there are several fruit trees and I have "discovered" old flowerbeds and other treasures) but the last few owners/tenents didn't care much for that kind of thing, so there's lots of work. While turning soil for a flower spot, I uncovered a rose tag, and immediately set forth to find out about it.
It is a small round metal tag (about the size of a dog's ID tag), and the brand appears to be Armstrong Roses. Stamped into it in raised letters is: CLAMERICA (JACCLAM). Inscribed above it is: CLIMBING and below the name, the PL. PAT. NO.: 3682. Also, printed on the tag is the statement: "Asexual reproduction of this patented plant without license is prohibited."
I do not know if this r... read moreose grew well here, was transplanted, or if the tag somehow came to be in the yard without a plant, but I'm hoping to find photos of what the place originally looked like, and maybe I'll see it and be able to report more.

On Jan 17, 2004, suncatcheracres from Old Town, FL wrote:

I've been looking for a climbing light salmon or coral pink rose that will do well in Northcentral Florida for quite a while, and I found a bare root one on a table in front of a local feed store yesterday. The owner says he sells this brand every year and never gets anything but praises from customers, so I planted my fairly hefty bare root rose with unslightly bare stems into the ground today, as the package said "Plant Me Now." I've been told I can plant practically anything here in zone 8b, as long as the ground isn't frozen.

The label says: "Climbing America, everblooming climbing rose with salmon colored blooms that have a silvery sheen and spicy fragrance. Unusually vigorous plant. Disease resistant and winter hardy."

My Sunset Rose book says it ... read moreis a large flowered climber developed in 1976, a coral pink color, and an All America Rose Selection, and that "beautiful buds and large, full, highly fragrant, coral-pink blooms of the best hybrid tea form adorn these vigorous plants throughout the season. Can be grown upright, as a pillar rose." It has a high rating of 8.2 (out of 10) from the American Rose Society, says my Ortho Rose Book, and the plant has dark, leathery leaves, is moderately tall and disease resistant, is hardy, and easy to grow. What more can one ask of a rose?

My Southern Living Garden Book describes tea roses in general as "elegant, virtually everblooming, relatively tender roses best in the Lower, Coastal and Tropical South. Plants are long lived, building on old wood and disliking heavy pruning. Flowers are in pastel shades . . . in crosses with hybrid perpetuals, tea roses were parents of the first hybrid teas."

This rose was planted in my "pink bed," placed to climb up a deciduous tree, where it will blend with tall Confederate roses, a red bud tree, an Oriental pink saucer magnolia, pink cannas and Sweet William, and some yellow and white perennials interspersed to break up too much pink monotony, all backed with George Tabor light pink flowered large evergreen Southern Indica azaleas. I garden under heavy shade from ancient live oaks, but this flower bed is in one of my sunniest spots with about a half day of sun, mostly in the early afternoon. I can't wait to see it in full bloom.