Thorny issues: Climbing roses are full of spite and malevolence come pruning time Source: The Independent Saturday 28th January, 2012
So, it's a plant to treat with caution and it was mad of me, in our last garden, to think that I could ever keep it on a pergola.
Pruning it every year was a business I dreaded. Vast lengths of new growth lashed about in the wind, thorns caught in my hair and gored bloody tattoos on my face.
But I couldn't leave it unpruned. If the new growth hadn'... ...
