Question
I have a climbing rose that hasn't bloomed is so many years I can't even remember what color the blooms were.  It has beautiful green foliage but sets no buds.  I am not a rose expert so it could be many things I do wrong.  I buy Immunox and fertilizer for roses from Lowe's, but no success.  My other roses bloom, but not this climber. Help me have blossoms next year.

Thanks,

Answer
There are two climbing roses that are famous for not blooming and they are climbing Peace and climbing Queen Elizabeth. Both of them act the way you have described. The other reason a rose won't bloom is because you are being too kind to it such as too much fertilizer. The solution to that is to stop fertilizing until it sets buds and blooms for you. The other is the bud union. All roses are budded onto what is called an understock. This understock rose is usually a vigorous type that helps a rose to survive better. A budder takes a bud from this rose and grafts it onto the upper rose. These buds must be moist and never dry out so the budder keeps them in a dish of water, some even keep them in their mouths. If a bud is not what they call viable, in that it is too old or dried out, then a rose will not set buds or bloom. If you have had it a long time and it doesn't respond to being mean to it, then I would replace it as you have got a poor rose. Hope this helps.