I had the same problem you are having and finally had to get rid of the lady banks. I had no idea of how it would just take over. It was beautiful while it was blooming but after that - not so good. I just felt it was not worth the hassle it created most of the year for that one month of blooms it gave us. Good Luck!!

Lady Banks roses should come with a warning label! Very few gardeners realize how big they get. If it were my rose and my Lacey oak, I'd choose the oak over the rose. Remove the rose, keep the arbor, and replace the Lady Banks with a more restrained rose, such as Clytemnestra or Buff Beauty or Aloha. These three also have the advantage of being repeat bloomers.

Thanks for the advice. ya'll were right, I went and cutt it down. It did give us privacy from the neighbors behind us and it sure looks bare now.

I would have cutt it down long ago but my dw didn't want me to. Boy I know I'm gonna catch it when she gets home. o'well I knew if I waited and asked her again about it, she would say no, so i didn't ask. hmmm, was that wrong of me?

if ya'll hear some loud noises this evening, don't worry it will just be my DW expressing herself...

I hate to rain on your parade, but the Lady Banks will come back from the stump. We did the same thing--cut down a huge Lady, and next spring, the flush-to-the-ground stump was covered with green growth! Do you think putting an herbicide or stump-rot on it now would help? Maybe if you consult a reputable nursery they could give you good advice. Otherwise, just park the tractor on top of it and call it yard art!

I saw one a couple of weeks ago that was at least 30 or 40 feet high and had climbed to the top of a huge tree it was planted near. It will come back from the stump. When I was a kid, my stepfather used to try to kill this huge yellow climbing rose that reached the top of our 2 story house every year and he must have always done it at the right time because it came back bigger and more beautiful every year. I loved it, lol.

that's ok, i'd rather work on killing the stump, then trimming those canes backs 2 or 3 times a yr.

first i'm gonna light a fire on that stump real good, then i'll put some of my stump killer stuff on it, then i'll wrap the stump in black plastic so it don't get no sun or air and hope it starts roting.

i'm gonna kind of enjoy killin this plant that's been a real pain in the but... heheheh

You cut down a rose that your wife loves???

Quick, gather up as many of the trimmings as possible & root some new Lady Banks roses to be planted where they have enough room & enough sun to flourish.

Lady Banks is thornless,
evergreen/nearly evergreen,
it's big enough to make a real visual impact in the garden,
you can use it for a huge hedge that flowers in the springtime,
& birds can shelter in it.