Pruning a climbing rose on a narrow trellis

[tpmumtobe]

I have a climbing rose which has been established over the last three years. It grows up a narrow trellis (0.5m) at the side of the front door.

After letting it go a bit nuts growing straight up at first, last year I cut it right back and trained it properly with the main canes woven in a criss cross pattern horizontally to encourage flowers all the way up. Worked beautifully.

Problem is, I don't know what to do with it this year in terms of pruning? It's not dropped any leaves over winter and it's quite dense so tricky to see what's what.

Am I meant to cut back all the leafy side shoots so it looks more like a bare framework of just the central stems again?

All the advice and videos online are for roses where the canes are fanned out and the leaves have dropped which obviously doesn't work in this case.

Thanks for any pointers!

Search for Pollyanna Wilkinson on Instagram, she has done a series on pruning roses, might be what you’re looking for

Thanks, will look her up.

Take the leaves off so you can see what you are left with. Is it a climbing or rambling rose? They need different pruning.

The RHS website is good for information on pruning.

Thanks @caranations, it's a climber. Generous Gardener. So I'm ok to strip all the leaves off then? I find RHS website is good but again it's all about fanned roses not criss cross trellised ones. Principal must be the same I guess, I just don't want to wreck it!

Also look for Niff Barnes on IG

But as a climber, you need to be cutting back all those laterals to about 3 buds.
As for leaves- well, are they blackspotty? (may have just invented a word there)

@Harrysmummy246 no not blackspotty (good word) at all. By laterals you mean anything coming off the main canes?

Exactly @tpmumtobe.