Janet, your question about climbing roses for summer flowering. My soil is a sandy loam. The top soil is only one, to one and a half spits deep.
The areas around the fruit trees, which were there for a long time before I moved in, are slightly darker in colour, and a little more friable due to the annual leaf drop.
Apart from lots of rocks, I did find a lot of animal skeletons, mainly cats, in the garden when I initially dug it over. Not what I wanted to find.
Because there is not a good depth of topsoil, I usually plant the "greedy guts", i.e. roses and clematis in cardboard boxes. I dig a deep square hole and put a lot of donkey manure in the bottom. Then I put a large cardboard box on top of that, and plant the rose or clematis in it. This makes all the difference, as I found out two years ago when I planted some new roses without bothering with the cardboard boxes and manure. They did not grow at all, and only produced a couple of wimpy flowers at the end of the summer.
I have dug them up and planted them properly since then.
I am very greedy, and tend to plant things close together to squeeze more in.
This may be why my garden seems "lush." There is no soil exposed, so I suppose, there is less evaporation.
I know I have to top the water in the pond up, more often than I need to water the plants in the garden.
As to which roses will be okay in an exposed windy situation. Well, I have such a small garden, that I only have a few climbing roses. I can only tell you which ones have worked for me here. Someone else may be able to give you more ideas.
My garden is completely open to the north, north easterly and north westerly winds.
I have on my pergola, Colombian Climber which came from Peter Beales.
It has a wonderful perfume. It started flowering in a pot initially, as I was not ready to plant it.
Since then, It has not had a single day, without flowers.
It is also evergreen. It is not a very tall climber, mine is now about 12 feet.
I planted Clematis Perle d'Azur in the cardboard box with it. Neither of them seem to mind.
On another tiny pergola I have David Austin's Teasing Georgia.
Teasing Georgia doesn't flower in winter, but flowers well all through spring, summer and autumn. Lovely perfume.
On the same pergola are, two Plumbago capensis, a Solanum rattonettii and an Aristolchia elegans.
So far, they all seem happy.
I have two black plum trees only 4 feet apart. I planted a Madame Alfred Carriere in between them. Because it is such a poor situation, I thought it would take a long time getting established there. It was a lot slower than the others, but has now reached the top of the trees, so I hope it will flower a lot more this year.
I also have Aimee Vibert climbing through a golden gage tree.
She has grown up through the tree, and is now cascading very prettily out of it.
She also flowers all spring, summer and autumn, but not very much in winter.
I have squeezed in two seat arbours. On one of them is Sombreuil. He has a small flowered Mandevilla splendens (Dipladenia)? with him.
He has such a gorgeous perfume, I can sit there and sniff him for hours.
He flowers for most of the year, but only has a few flowers in winter.
On the other arbour is Marechal Niel. He flowers profusely in spring and early summer. The rest of the year, he flowers more sparingly. His perfume is lighter than the others to my nose, but other people tell me they find it strong.
He has the most flexible canes and is the easiest to train.
The New Dawn is climbing through an apricot tree. She smells strongly of green apples. She flowers mainly in spring and early summer, with some intermittent blooms at other times.
Here she is with Clematis viticella Abundance.
...and with foxgloves and Rose Blush Noisette next to her.
I also have Climbing Devoniensis going up another apricot tree, but would hesitate to recommend him, as so far, he suffers badly with powdery mildew and die-back, which I am hoping he will grow out of.
He also, so far, has not been very floriferous.
None of these roses have been bothered by the wind.
We also get a very strong wind from the south, out of Africa here.
We had three days of it, last autumn. The bougainvillea next to rose Columbian Climber, was stripped of all it's flowers and leaves. The leaves of the Clematis viticella Polish Spirit nearby, all turned black, but none of the roses were damaged at all.
This is only what I have in my little garden. I hope someone else can recommend more.
Daisy