Roses and bending round corners.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

Just wondered if anyone can help me. I have a David Austin climbing rose. And in my head I was going to prune and train it to go in a certain way.
I have a huge stem that is growing towards the corner of my house. Do their stems bend enough for me make it grown on the other side of the house? I don’t want to do this and snap it.

You can bend them when they are very young, they are still flexible when they're "green". I usually tie them in as soon as there's enough length to anchor them in two places. When the growth has matured it becomes more woody and it would not be possible to put in a 90 degree angle.

Bear in mind that the rose will always want to head towards the sun, so if the aspect round the corner is more shady, it won't want to go that way. You can make it but it won't grow the offshoots that the flowers will appear on, so flowering will be reduced.

Make sure it goes roughly horizontally, as the flower bearing shoots will grow vertically from a horizontal branch.

Yup. My garden is full sun most of the time. So fat aspect is fine. Thanks. That really helps

You could always prune it back a little way to a bud that's facing in the right direction. Then as it grows, you can tie it in while it's still soft.

@Surtsey rhis is a good idea. I’m going to do that. Thanks for the info!!!