Marlorena, i disagree, if you're going to move a rose it needs to be cut right back as the roots will be damaged in the moving and will not support much top growth, it will come back fine next year but the flowering will be reduced in the first year.
The top growth only needs to be cut down to a lower level if you move a rose during the summer months growing season - then of course you should cut down the rose in keeping with the root system..... at this time of year there will be little or no further growth as they're winding down for the winter... so you keep as much cane as you can removing only the wavy thin branches to prevent wind rock... cutting back to the thicker parts of the canes... if you cut the branches too low down, and get a severe winter, cane could be lost and in the worst cases on some roses depending on variety, right back to the graft...
Further pruning in March to balance the rose, which by then will be telling you where the new bud eyes are growing from...
No problem..... there are lots of variables in rose growing, so much depends on the type of rose, so advice that tends to generalise is not always appropriate..- I can be guilty of that too - and of course the experience of the person doing the gardening...
I'm a big fan of Corkscrew Hazel and took one out of the ground recently and put into a container for pride of place. They are quite thirsty, I find - but they are tough!
If I were you - and I'm not saying this is right, just what I'd do - I would cut the rose right down to 6" from the ground or the lowest point to the main stem ... then dig it up and move it somewhere else and let the corkscrew branches have space.
But ... I say this as I'm on clay soil ... in the height of the drought I moved an established rose to a totally new spot ... watered it in once and just two other times and within 3 weeks it had about 10" of new growth and a fulsome yellow bloom!
The rose actually looks really nice there. The hazel is blocked by the rose, a wall and a buddleia. I am more tempted actually to try moving the hazel rather than the rose.
I will let it get a bit later in autumn and have a crack.
My corkscrew was in a pot, we put it in the ground, it doesnt "screw" any more! We just moved some roses because we had to, book says cut them back to one third, they look quite happy, one is a climber.
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Further pruning in March to balance the rose, which by then will be telling you where the new bud eyes are growing from...
If I were you - and I'm not saying this is right, just what I'd do - I would cut the rose right down to 6" from the ground or the lowest point to the main stem ... then dig it up and move it somewhere else and let the corkscrew branches have space.
But ... I say this as I'm on clay soil ... in the height of the drought I moved an established rose to a totally new spot ... watered it in once and just two other times and within 3 weeks it had about 10" of new growth and a fulsome yellow bloom!