Hopefully the last one (for today) looking closer at the base it seems to be mainly thick older wood. Maybe three / four younger greener stems. Would these be sufficient do you think?
What Busy-Lizzie says 😊 Yes I think you have enough new green left. Cut at least two of the brown woody canes without any green on them right down to ground level (this will encourage new ones to shoot up) and prune the others to just above the highest green cane branching off them. Then give it a good, deep watering - a couple of large watering cans poured slowly, plus a fresh mulch of compost around the base and you’re all set.
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Great. I have, I think, followed the collective advice. Or, I am well on my way. The green shoots don't have any shoots off them really till at about 4-5 feet, approaching the height of my fence. I guess I can safely cut these back too, basically leaving no foliage?
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Yes you can and should do that, cut them back by around half and it will encourage branching lower down. If you end up with nothing taller than 2-3ft, perfect. BTW don’t prune again in spring, you want to reserve any new growth put on after this hard prune, so the rose has some wood to ripen and eventually flower on.
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End of day result. I'll wait and pray it would have been nice to have been able to train the new growth in straight away, but when it came to it, I think it needed to go back further. Was all heave and very inflexible. At least I can paint more of the fence now
Any idea what the climber is that I uncovered on the left?
Looks great, fortune favours the brave, we hope! Seeing it now done I would be tempted to go just a wee bit further.. trim right back the longer brown cut stumps to about a cm and thin the congested canes on the right to leave just the three green canes. Maybe even remove the thickest green stem in the centre of the left hand clump as it’s crossing two others and probably rubbing against them.
No idea about your climber, maybe a clematis, but you could post that separately and ask for an ID under ‘Plants’.
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I can't tell you how much I appreciate the help! A real learning journey!
Any idea what the climber is that I uncovered on the left?
Thank you all again
No idea about your climber, maybe a clematis, but you could post that separately and ask for an ID under ‘Plants’.