Has it started to produce fresh new canes at all? If so, I think I'd just let them grow, then cut out the old flowered canes in late winter next year. Then you'll get the best of both worlds, enjoying the hips for most of the winter.

I planted one last summer. It has hit its stride already and is likely to behave like a monster unleashed in my small, crowded town garden. I'm going to have to cut a lot off after it's flowered just to keep it at bay. I just liked the name so much (it consorts so nicely with the Bishop of Llandaff) that I couldn't resist planting one. I've seen it engulf entire buildings in other people's gardens, since, though!

Thank you for the reply. Well It has produced non flowering sideshoots much large and still growing, i dont know if those are what you called new fresh canes, they did not grow from the base but mainly from the horizontal old canes in the upper part of the plant. Perhaps now that the flowers are over, it will produce new canes from the base.Besides, not only the flowers fall down, also some of the part that it is supposed to produce the hip, i dont know if thats normal, perhaps it is due to the extreme hot weather we are suffering here now. Anyway good luck with your rose and dont let it engulfing you. (laugh)

I've looked at mine (which hasn'nt flowered yet)and it's also got new, non-budding growths coming out from higher up. So, I'll leave those and prune out some of the flowered shoots when flowering has finished.

thank you again. Yes, i will do the same as you. is what my common sense says to me, and i think is the best thing to do in oder to keep in bounds this lovely monster now that is still young. best wishes and lucky with yours.( I ll send you a picture of mine taken when it was in full blomm one of this days if you agree).

Ooh yes please!