True Bloom Roses® True Delight™ Bare Root Climbing Rose

About True Bloom Roses® True Delight™ Bare Root Climbing Rose

Rosa ‘LIMsummer’ — True Delight™ PP36,040
🧬 Breeder: Ping Lim / True Bloom Roses®
🌹 Rose Type: Large-Flowered Climbing Rose
🎨 Creamy yellow streaked and splashed with pink—True Delight™ looks like someone took a paintbrush to every flower.

True Delight™ is not your typical climbing rose.

Each large flower opens in a soft creamy yellow, then gets dressed up with unpredictable pink to salmon-pink stripes, streaks, and splashes.

No two blooms look exactly alike.

And at approximately 4 inches across with 25+ petals, these aren't tiny striped flowers disappearing into a giant climber. They're substantial, full blooms designed to make an impact.

Add a sweet fragrance, glossy green foliage, strong disease resistance, and a compact climbing habit reaching about 7 feet, and True Delight™ becomes one seriously fun rose.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Large-Flowered Climber
🎨 Color: Creamy yellow striped and splashed with pink to salmon pink
🌸 Bloom Form: Large and full
🌼 Bloom Size: Approximately 4 inches
🌼 Petal Count: 25+ petals
🌺 Fragrance: Sweetly fragrant
💐 Flower Production: Flowers appear abundantly throughout the season
🔁 Flowering Habit: Repeat blooming all season long
🌿 Foliage: Glossy green
🛡️ Disease Resistance: Very good to excellent

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌱 Growth Habit: Compact climbing rose
↕️ Height: Climbing canes reach approximately 7 feet
☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun
❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–9
🪴 Container Friendly: Yes — excellent for a large patio container with a trellis
🏡 Garden Use: Smaller arbors, fences, trellises, pillars, patio trellises, and other compact vertical spaces

🎨 Every Flower Is Different

This is where True Delight™ gets really fun.

Those pink markings aren't perfectly uniform.

One flower may open mostly creamy yellow with a few dramatic pink streaks.

Another may be heavily splashed in salmon pink.

And another may land somewhere right in between.

When dozens of flowers are open together, you get a climbing rose covered in slightly different variations of the same color palette.

It's almost like having several roses growing on one plant.

True Delight™ doesn't do matching outfits.

🌹 A New Generation of Climbing Roses

True Delight™ comes from the True Bloom Roses® breeding program, led by renowned rose breeder Ping Lim.

The goal behind True Bloom Roses® is an interesting one: combine the large, high-petal-count flowers people associate with traditional roses with the strong disease resistance and garden performance of modern shrub roses.

True Delight™ takes that philosophy vertical.

Instead of creating an enormous climber that requires a huge pergola or wall, this variety develops relatively compact climbing canes reaching around 7 feet.

That makes it much easier to incorporate into today's gardens.

🪴 Yes, You Can Grow This Climber in a Container

This may be one of our favorite things about True Delight™.

You don't necessarily need a giant garden to grow it.

Its relatively compact climbing habit makes True Delight™ suitable for growing in a large patio container fitted with a sturdy trellis.

Imagine those striped yellow-and-pink flowers climbing behind a patio seating area.

Or framing a small balcony trellis.

Or growing up a decorative obelisk beside an entryway.

It's climbing-rose romance on a much more manageable scale.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

This rose looks hand-painted.

We're always drawn to roses that give you a reason to inspect every flower, and True Delight™ absolutely does.

The combination of creamy yellow and salmon-pink striping means every bloom brings a slightly different pattern.

Then there are the practical qualities.

It's fragrant.

It's repeat blooming.

It's disease resistant.

It's compact for a climber.

And those flowers are a substantial 4 inches across.

But what really wins us over is the personality.

True Delight™ isn't trying to be subtle or perfectly coordinated.

It's cheerful, colorful, a little unpredictable—and completely delightful.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

Planting Site: Choose a sunny location with fertile, well-drained soil for the strongest flowering.

Support: Provide a trellis, fence, small arbor, pillar, or other sturdy support for its climbing canes.

Training: Rather than allowing every cane to grow straight upward, gently train major canes diagonally or horizontally where possible. This encourages more flowering laterals along the length of the plant.

Watering: Water deeply after planting and maintain consistent moisture while your bare-root rose establishes its root system.

Pruning: Avoid hard pruning while a young climbing rose develops its main framework. Once established, remove dead or damaged growth and selectively renew older canes when necessary.

Container Growing: Choose a substantial container with excellent drainage and provide a permanent trellis or support. Container-grown roses require more consistent watering than roses planted directly in the ground.

Small-Space Climber: At approximately 7 feet, True Delight™ is especially useful where a traditional 10-, 15-, or 20-foot climbing rose would simply be too much.