Any rose growers on here? In need of advice.

[Mountain Bug]

The wife and I have recently purchased a century old farmhouse as a rental project, complete with beautiful but unkempt rose bushes. I do not know the varieties or much about them other than the obvious, tea rose, climber etc.
My plan is to cut them back hard and reshape them but in that area I've not a clue what I'm doing. Advice so far says not to prune them until February. The pictures shown are a few weeks ago before the frost. Any advice would be appreciated. And, I do understand that one or more may be beyond their time.



Thank you
Scott

 

[Dunwaters]

I’d cut them back now.
I don’t prune, just use a hedge trimmer to take them down to whatever size seems reasonable.

 

[Mr Tree]

Trim them hard, then get a chain round the stump, hook on to tow bar & pull em clean out. Nasty pernicious brambles with a taste for human flesh!

 

[enfieldspares]

In theory and practice (a guy rented land off my father and did this) you can cut down the rose you have and then graft on a part of the variety that you want and it will then grow as that? At least this is what the fellow did.

How to Graft Roses: 14 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Grafting, or budding, is a technique for propagating plants wherein you take a piece from one plant and fuse it onto another. With roses, it's easier to propagate them with cuttings. But you can also graft roses, especially when you have a...

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[big ears]

Prune the shrub roses hard. The ramblers down to two buds from last years growth.
In some of the pictures you have quite bad sucker growth (paler green and seven leaflets as opposed to five) this needs to be removed and if severe the rose should perhaps be removed.
Remember you cannot plant a new rose in same spot without completely digging out the soil and replacing. There is a virus that lives in soil and will stunt/kill new rose.

 

[Cyres]

Go on I player and watch last night's Gardeners world. Monty gives excellent piece on pruning rambling and climbing roses.
T roses. Aim for an open centre. All crossing and diseased wood comes out.
Now you can cut back to 30cm in Jan back to 15 cm just above outward pointing bud. Mulch with well rotted farmyard manure.
Climbing roses aim for a spreading fan like structure. These will generate upward shoots in the spring that will then flower.
You can be ruthless but just aim for a spreading structure and tie/wire in the main branches.
Nigh on impossible to kill a rose by over pruning.
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[doric_prince]

Trim them hard, then get a chain round the stump, hook on to tow bar & pull em clean out. Nasty pernicious brambles with a taste for human flesh!

I beg your pardon? I never promised you a rose garden…..

 

[HonestJohn]

Don’t go too hard on the climbers, leave the main beam structure. Ramblers you can take back to around 18” and they will set new fresh growth you can work with going forward for volume rather than long runners. Tea roses can be pruned reasonably hard, but never back to the stem IMHO

Pruning now is fine, it’s cold enough. Prune in Feb from next year after the first big cut. I’ve recently pruned my roses