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Blaze Climbing Rose
Rosa 'Blaze'
Also called blaze rose
Blaze Climbing Rose blooms from June through September.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Blaze Climbing Rose
Plant it in full sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 6–8. Expect it to reach about 11 ft tall and 8 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 4 years (a house reading).
Pets
- Not yet checked for pets.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
No toxicity note is on file for Blaze Climbing Rose. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Blaze Climbing Rose
Plant Blaze Climbing Rose in early spring as soon as the soil is workable, or in early fall at least six weeks before your first frost, so roots establish in cool weather. In zone 7, the middle of its hardy zones 6 to 8, spring means March to May and fall means September or October. Once settled, it blooms from June to September.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 7, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 7 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Blaze Climbing Rose get?
11 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult8 ftwideSee Blaze Climbing Rose in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Blaze Climbing Rose
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Give Blaze Climbing Rose about 8 ft of clear ground in every direction, measured from its center. It is one plant with room around it, not a row, and a raised bed is too small for it.
Add Blaze Climbing Rose to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Blaze Climbing Rose's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 34 published sources on October 10, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.
- Plant Addictsthe queue's storeheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- plantdetectives.comPlant Detectivesheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, soil and diseases
- plants.platthillnursery.comNetPS Plant Finder (Platt Hill Nursery)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and soil
- Heirloom Rosesheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, bloom months and color and soil
- HelpMeFind Rosesheight, spread, hardiness zones, bloom months and color, trait tags and diseases
- NC State ExtensionRosa genus pagesun, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity
- pridescorner.comPrides Corner Farmsheight, spread, hardiness zones and bloom months and color
- Missouri Botanical GardenRosa 'Demokracie' BLAZE IMPROVEDsun, soil, diseases and pests
- University of Illinois ExtensionImproved Blaze, filed under Rosa 'Blaze'sun, soil, diseases and pests
- archive.orgJackson & Perkins Co. (the introducer), Parade of Modern Roses, Perenn...height and bloom months and color
- archive.orgJackson & Perkins Co. (the introducer), Modern Roses, Perennials and F...height and bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe Conard-Pyle Co. (Star Rose Growers), West Grove, Pennsylvania, Sta...height and bloom months and color
- archive.orgRose Valley Nurseries, Lyons, New York, catalog for spring 1933 (Natio...height and bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe Conard-Pyle Co. (Star Rose Growers), West Grove, Pennsylvania, Sta...hardiness zones and bloom months and color
- archive.orgInter-State Nurseries, Hamburg, Iowa, catalog for the season of 1936 (...sun and bloom months and color
- ask.extension.orgAsk Extension knowledge base (Extension Foundation), question 426685,...hardiness zones and bloom months and color
- HelpMeFind Rosesthe References tab of its 'Blaze' record (its second page), relaying C...height and bloom months and color
- US plant patent (Google Patents)Google Patentsbloom months and color and trait tags
- archive.orgJackson & Perkins Company (the introducer), Popular New Rose Creations...bloom months and color
- archive.orgJackson & Perkins Company (the introducer), Preferred Stock for the Tr...bloom months and color
- archive.orgMarshall Nurseries, Arlington, Nebraska (Omaha and Denver), Roses, 195...bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe American Rose Society, The American Rose Magazine, volume IV, numb...bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe American Rose Society, American Rose Magazine, volume VI, Septembe...bloom months and color
- archive.orgRobert Wayman, Bayside, Long Island, New York, Personal guide to the b...bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe Glendale Distributing Co., Brooklyn, New York, Price list of nurse...bloom months and color
- archive.orgReynolds' Farms, South Norwalk, Connecticut, catalog, 1934 (National A...bloom months and color
- archive.orgJ. Horace McFarland, Roses of the World in Colour (Cassell, 1937; prin...bloom months and color
- archive.orgJackson & Perkins Company (the introducer), All About the New Roses, b...bloom months and color
- archive.orgBobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, New Jersey, Novelties and Reduced Price...bloom months and color
- archive.orgHorticulture, 15 April 1933 (volume 11, number 8), a New England deale...bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe Glendale Distributing Company, Brooklyn, New York, General list of...bloom months and color
- HelpMeFind Rosesthe References tab of its 'Blaze' record, relaying Modern Roses 10 (19...bloom months and color
- archive.orgThe Conard-Pyle Co. (Star Rose Growers), West Grove, Pennsylvania, Cat...height
- archive.orgGeorge H. Peterson, Inc., Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Little Book About Ros...sun
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