Good morning and welcome to the rose forum. Where are you? Pruning and fertilization occurs at different times in different climates (and this is an international forum). I'm thinking that your rose is probably a spring bloomer since you described it as being very large. A photo would be nice if possible. Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. We are in the Cotswolds 40 miles NE

Are you able to post a close up of the foliage please? it's difficult to make out from this distance as to what type of rose this is. Thanks. When was this photo taken?

It was taken today. Its now dark so I attach a photo of detached foliage. thanks and regards

Attached is photo of how it was

aah..ok.... what a gorgeous property you have there... This latest photo of the foliage - thanks for taking the trouble by the way - confirms what I was thinking in that what you have I think is Rosa banksiae, probably the variety 'Lutea'...

I'll just have a check and see what pruning is recommended...

I have no suggestions just wanted to tell you your property is so charming. I love it. I can see you planting lots more roses in your beautiful piece of heaven.

Yes it's a Banks rose. These flower on old wood so heavy annual pruning can interfere with this. However yours looks developed enough that is should have at least some flowers each spring, on the older branches closer to the wall. So maybe the problem is your climate*:

These are roses that need lots of sunshine to ripen their wood, and a corresponding absence of severe frost. There is no doubt that proper ripening of the wood enables them to resist winter cold, and on sunny walls in the south of England the double yellow form may be expected to thrive and flower freely

--The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book (2004, Frances Lincoln, London)

*All the more so if it is not the double yellow R. banksiae 'Lutea'

I agree that is obviously a banksia. If it was mine, I would not prune it at all right now, I would wait until after it blooms next Spring (which is when you are supposed to prune once blooming roses - right after they stop blooming in the late Spring or Summer). I would first tie the new long canes as horizontally as possible, and only prune to shape a bit, and keep if from obscuring the windows.

How cold does it get where you live? Banksias love heat - it may have survived on that wall because of the shelter & summer heat from the stones. Anyway, next Spring you can expect it to cover itself in teenie, tiny blooms in clusters. They will be either yellow or white. If it is the yellow one, it is thornless (absolutely), another plus.

Congratulations on having such a lovely old rose!

Jackie

'Lutea' is normally alright over here in the south, in fact it grows well at a well known garden in the Cotswolds where the member is, but pruning can be tricky for this rose as it flowers best on wood that is a few years old, apparently. I've never grown it. Whatever, it needs to be done immediately after flowering, which it does early next year April/May time. I might consider removing that thick trunk in the middle for instance, but your call on that...

As for now, with winter on the way, I wouldn't like to leave those long canes flying out to the right beyond the wall. One - I would prune them off back to the corner of the wall, so most of the plant still remains intact.

or Two - I would like to tie those canes back to the wall going around the corner. I would do this with a couple of vine eyes hammered into the pointing between the brickwork [providing the pointing is secure, not old and flaky], or if you are handy at d.i.y. to drill a couple of holes in the wall using rawl plugs and screws, leaving them proud by an inch or so, and then bring those canes around and with garden string tie a thicker one to a screw or vine eye, and then tie the other canes loosely to the ones you have already secured. It would be a shame to waste those canes at this point, however, pruning them off back to the corner is simplest... then see what happens next Spring and work your way from there.

This rose is very popular on old properties - something of a classic, and suits Cotswold stone walls, although I don't like them too much myself as I see them as a lot of trouble for a brief flowering of 4 to 6 weeks...

Have fun...

OMG what a gorgeous property.

Thankyou so much for all your helpful comments. I will send you all a photo next spring when it is in full bloom !

Your rose looks very healthy and I agree with Jackie's comments about training. If you do what she said you can expect a good show next Spring.

Plant appears to have been growing for some years without flowering, so I don't know how anyone here can guarantee a sudden abundant bloom next year.

Unless it has actually been flowering up to this point and somehow going unnoticed.

The rose had been completely buried in ivy which was newly removed is why it could bloom next Spring.

I had five Lady Banks along a fifty foot fence in San Diego some years ago. Really more than was needed for that site, little did I know. It's an easy Rose, and no prickles! Yes, once blooming, but such a spectular sight. And, lovely greenery the remainder of the year. I hope yours comes around now that you have cleared the way. Looking forward to future pics.

Th

I would love to hear a follow-up or rather see one! : ))

Truly gorgeous!!!! Your entire property is an inspiration! Thank you so much for the follow-up!