Pruning Zepherine Drouhin

We have a Zepherine Drouhin growing over an arch on the back garden. Since we are rubbish gardeners (but trying very hard this year!) she is pretty neglected, although she has bloomed beautifully this year, and smelt divine. I've no idea how to prune her when the time comes (she's been there about 3 years, never been pruned properly), and not even sure is she a climber or an upright bush rose? David Austin says climber, RHS website says prune her as a bush rose. What would you do? Thanks for all advice in advance, very greatful!

 

Thank you very much! she really is a beautiful rose, and smells so lovely too. I've been deadheading her all summer, but I'm not sure I'm doing that correctly either..I don't know how far to cut back into the stem when doing that? Also there are a lot of little stems that have no leaves on them where do I cut them back? do I do that just now? just thinking they will be hard to identify when the leaves drop. Will come back with some pics later to show you what I mean. Thank you!

 

Right, have been out and had a good look at the rose in question, and have watched some videos on youtube. There are some upright canes that are just plain dead, so they need to go I know, which will stimulate new growth. There are a lot of laterals that then have a lot of smaller *branches* coming off them - these are where the problem lies I think. Some of these branches off of the laterals have flowered this year, some are green but show little evidence of growth, some have brown dead tips but are green further down, some are bare but they do have obvious leaf buds which look like they are bursting into life - all of this is compounded by the rose having black leaf spot which means it has lost a lot of it's leaves already making it harder to tell which is which (I know how to deal with the spot/mildew, just haven't been dilligent enough, I hang my head in shame). So, my question is, what do I do with these branches coming off the laterals? Would it be better to cut the laterals back (watched a vid where someone did that) so that new growth comes from them eventually? if so when would I do that? Please forgive me if I am speaking gobbledygook, I acknowledge that I have no clue at all! Have enclosed some pics, not sure they are much use.

 

Thank you, you are extremely kind When would be the best time to do this?

 

Thank you WOL Here are the pics requested,not sure they will help though! the garden is not as much of a mess as it looks! (hangs head in shame)



This is the arch, Zepherine at either side and Honeysuckle at one side too...the foliage on top is mostly all Honeysuckle.



This is a nice new healthy lateral.



This is a nice new ..I forget what it's called, but it's a new shoot coming from the bud union.