About ten days ago Debbie helped me to train the canes of my favorite breeder rose, 'Francois Juranville', up off the ground where they naturally grow and up onto a span of rebar on the west side of my front door. But this new shoot is what emerged a few years ago after the original, planted in 1999, succumbed to the huge (now gone) climber-from-Hell 'Mermaid' rose. I trained that original UP onto the trelis, believing the writings that it was sterile, but in 2003 I found it to be a VERY fertile seed (Mom) parent, so I trained this new shoot to span the rebar trelllis downward to encourage blooms THIS spring due to a geotropic response. It does not look like much now, spanning perhaps eight feet, but after having fed the roots with fish emulsion, Epsom salts, and a few handfuls of Dad's chemical fertilizer with trace elements, followed by a deep watering, the newly trained canes and their white clothesline training wires, should be fully clothed by abundant new growth in a couple of months. First pic is of the newly trained plant...the others are of the original some years back before being consumed by 'Mermaid'. It is the seed parent of my for-Florida climbing rose 'Gainesville Garnet'.