“If the rose is an old, overgrown climber,” she says ... It also helps rejuvenate the rose and usually produces a rose bush with a heavier, more uniform flush of blooms in the spring ...

Don’t prune your rose bushes back more than ⅓ to ½ of its ... You’ll want to take a different approach to pruning when it comes to overgrown climbing roses. Reduce size by removing excess ...

Follow our guide to taming overgrown ramblers ... allotted space or ruining the shape of the plant. Continue to improve the shape of the rose by removing about a third of the older stems.