My garden is pretty sheltered by houses around, so it doesn't get too windy.
 The arches are kind of hard to photograph close up. I've got canes going off in all directions so the pics might be a bit misleading. In the below pic the Etoile canes (from one plant) are growing right (along the shed), left (arching over to the fence) and towards the camera (along wiring running to the other arch, creating a kind of arbour). What might look like laterals might be, in fact, outgrowing canes. All the canes are in fact, attached to something, but that doesn't show in the pic.
@Marlorena - yes all the pics I’ve seen of your ladybirds have been harlequins. I saw several in my garden last year but I mostly had native two spots.
@peteS - I’ve had a ladybird in the garden that looked very similar to that. But it wasn’t a harlequin, it was much smaller. Was a native pine ladybird - which is odd as my garden isn’t a natural habitat for that type. Must have blown in from somewhere else.
  (Not my photo, I couldn’t get a very good one of it)
Great to see the season is starting, hurrah! For a change, I won’t be hogging early posts this year, due to everything being set back. Lovely sunny weather though, so I keep watching those buds and hoping..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Just foliage & buds here too, no sign of imminent flowers yet. This is my Generous Gardener which has put out lots of sturdy new side shoots which I presume I should train GENTLY to horizontal to form new lateral structure?Â
Its a good forum to be if you are a rose lover.. (except for the wallet )If you have any pics/ labels it might help..Â
Thank you @c@cooldoc No labels unfortunately. I have some pictures but the garden is quite overgrown and in some of the pictures you may have to play ‘hunt the rose’!
A climber? with clematis smothering it and I think a white periwinkle at it's feet...
A very sad looking one being buried by something blue (it's not forget me not is it?) plus more periwinkle I think...
I think there are a couple here...
Very spindly one. Why is it sideways?
Looks like someone pruned it once...
This one is being completely swamped...
There are more but you get the idea.  Thank you to everyone for the advice so far. It looks like I have a lot of clearing away to do from underneath the roses and I will feed them. It will be very interesting to see if we get any flowers and then perhaps try to ID them.
(I apologise for the sideways pictures. I am off now to try to find out how to rectify that!)
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@peteS - I’ve had a ladybird in the garden that looked very similar to that. But it wasn’t a harlequin, it was much smaller. Was a native pine ladybird - which is odd as my garden isn’t a natural habitat for that type. Must have blown in from somewhere else.
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This is my Generous Gardener which has put out lots of sturdy new side shoots which I presume I should train GENTLY to horizontal to form new lateral structure?Â
No labels unfortunately. I have some pictures but the garden is quite overgrown and in some of the pictures you may have to play ‘hunt the rose’!
A climber? with clematis smothering it and I think a white periwinkle at it's feet...
A very sad looking one being buried by something blue (it's not forget me not is it?) plus more periwinkle I think...
I think there are a couple here...
Very spindly one. Why is it sideways?
Looks like someone pruned it once...
This one is being completely swamped...
There are more but you get the idea.Â
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Thank you to everyone for the advice so far. It looks like I have a lot of clearing away to do from underneath the roses and I will feed them. It will be very interesting to see if we get any flowers and then perhaps try to ID them.
(I apologise for the sideways pictures. I am off now to try to find out how to rectify that!)