Training / pruning climbing rose

[LittleFriendSusan]

Hope someone a bit more knowledgeable can help. We planted a DA Wollerton Old Hall climbing rose next to our new arch last June. It flowered fairly well but didn’t quite reach the arch to climb. For one reason or another we didn’t get round to pruning it & it’s now in full leaf - feel like we need to do something to it to encourage it up the arch but not sure what? I looked at the DA pruning guide but I’m struggling to correlate this to what we have!

There was a small trellis thing attached when we bought it which we kept and angled towards the arch. I’ve tied in a couple of stems to this but not sure what to do with the others - the stronger looking stems are growing away from the arch, not sure if this is clear from the photos. If I try to pull them towards the arch & tie in, they are basically on top of the lower stems which I’ve tied in. Should we be cutting something back or leave it to grow a bit taller and then angle towards the arch? All the guides seem to say minimal pruning in the first couple of years.

Also not sure if we planted a bit too far away but it’s done now.

Any advice would be much appreciated!!

Bump - I've no idea, I left a climbing rose for a few years without pruning, it's now a beautiful tangled mess 🙁

It will take several years to reach the top of an arch but seems to have grown well. You want to encourage strong straight stems. You might need to untie it all to see what you are doing. I would prune right out any thin weedy looking stems. Then look at the upright stems and prune back any side shoots to one or two buds. Tie it back in so the stems are spread out across the width of your arch, ideally so they aren’t crossing and rubbing on each other. Feed, water mulch.

According to Ben Hamiton Amderson this is a very slow grower
So I would do as @AlwaysGardening says, focussing on keeping a few good stems. You may well find that when you've taken out everything dead, damaged, diseased or dying, weedy, or making a break for it in entirely the wrong direction, it will be a lot easier to see what to do.