June is inevitably a month of roses even if you don't fixate on them by having a Rose Garden. Which I don't: I've never ever seen a Rose Garden that wasn't a cacophony of color, a juvenile confetti of Me-Me-Me flowers jangling together by the thousands. Impressive but unattractive.
Better to grow roses as part of more diverse plantings. The Rule Of Thumb?

                             Never (well, almost) Plant One Rose Anywhere Near Another.
Then each rose has the proper respect, the big-enough and bland-enough retinue around and behind it, so it can be the star it was born to me. (And truly, what plant than a rose has higher expectations of being a star when in full-bloom? OK, rhododendrons, azaleas, peonies, iris. The Rule Of Thumb applies for them too.)


Here then, is one of my favorite star-quality roses, Dortmund. Countless single-red flowers on canes that, for me, can get ten feet tall and beyond. I've grown it up a ten-foot section of rebar (the reinforcing rod that is normally used to make reinforced-concrete frames) that I pounded into the ground a couple of feet. (A good mallet is a marvelous thing.)


And each Dortmund flower has a large white center, a distinctive as well as delightful touch.
The biggest show is in June, but there are sporadic follow-ups in August too.


Dortmund is a climber, not a rambler, so each cane can live for many years, getting thicker and trunkier and more floriferous all the while. So unlike ramblers (where the new canes that spring up from the base are essential to replace the older canes that begin to poop out after a couple of years), you only need to keep new Dortmund canes if you need a bulkier bush.
Otherwise just snip them right off.  Dortmund is defiantly thorny, so wear gloves if you don't want to bleed a lot.