Iceberg climbing rose problems

Hello,

I’m new to this forum and hoping someone can help with some advice about my iceberg rose. This year it is all stem and no leaves. It used to be more bushy…

I’m guessing I got the pruning wrong? Any comments gratefully received!

Have a lovely Saturday!

 

It looks perfectly fine to me, what is it you don't like about it? You do realise you have the climbing version don't you? Yes of course you do, I've just noticed in your header.. it does tend to go rather leafless during summer unfortunately, but continues to flower.

 

Thank you for replying! The bottom third is quite bushy, the top two thirds has long stems, two feet or more, with no leaves so it looks a bit bare and stringy. I have a couple of wollerton old hall climbers and a generous gardener climbers and they are bushy all the way up!

 

It looks fine to me too. It may have grown longer stems thanks to all the rain this year. When the flowers finish you could cut those stems shorter than usual when you dead head them so the next batch of flowers will be lower down.

 

Ok, thank you for responding, I will do that!