Rejoice!

What species is it? I googled the name you gave, and got a town in Barbados. Using cultivar names for a primary is so confusing. The cultiver names and nicknames used many times here are esoteric .

Jay 6a Chicago i got something different then any of y'alls results.

I got a type of rose! Though it was very pretty.

Evidently D A = David Austin and it’s ‘Bathsheba’.

tj

Now that I look closer, it is a rose. It will probably put on a lot of new growth if trimmed now. I overreacted, sorry 😀

Pruning is not needed for your rose's health. I might place a supportive trellis behind it for tying in canes enough to support the blooms next Spring.

in my MI .... which you arent in ... i used to trim all my roses down to about 6 inches.. so they could fit under rose cones for winter ... all but the huge ramblers and natives ... mind you ...

there is no reason why your can not be hard pruned back ... if that is what you want to do ...

but i have no clue when to do that in z7 ..... i would do it.. a few weeks short of ground freeze ... when there was no doubt of full dormancy ...

i also used to get many of my roses mail order in april or so ... and this is what they looked like ... first 2 pix ....

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=roses+dormant+mail+order&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

and that is what yours probably looked like.. when some local nursery took delivery about 6 weeks before your growing season started.. and potted them up.. and leafed them out in a greenhouse .... for your purchase ... so you could do the same thing ... as a pruning goal ...

so pruning isnt a big deal .. you decide on a goal ... and you act towards accomplishing it ... as noted.. we dont really prune.. just for the heck of it ...

but what might be a bigger deal in year 3.. in the same pot.... is whether your potting media is wearing out... and the media.. being a water management system of sorts ... and as it ages.. it doesnt manage the water the same ...

so you might want to repot it .. .and if you are going to repot it.. it will be much easier to do.. if you prune it down like those pix above ... so you dont end up losing a lot of blood in the process .. lol ... but again.. timing of doing that will be important ...

wish your pic was not sideways to me... hard to study on a laptop ...

ken

two other thoughts...

first ... you would have a goal of reducing height.. because.. sooner or later the wind might start knocking it over.. when the size of the canopy ... gets larger than the weight of the pot ... which holds it up ...

and.. second ... in my MI... some climbers made it thru winter.. and others didnt.. so many of them.. no matter what i did in fall ... might have to be pruned back very hard in spring.. to remove all the dead stuff ...

and third ... did i say 2.. lol ... you want to prune down low.. and rejuvenate the plant .. rather than give it a haircut ... because you dont want to encourage 4 to 6 buds to break at 4 to 5 feet ... creating even a bigger canopy at height ...

ken

They make trellises or tripods you can put in pots. Get one of those and contain it by tying it to that. It's good to get the canes wrapped around something and going sideways anyway. You'll get more laterals and more blooms.

Ken is right. Climbers in cold zones don't USUALLY need hard pruning. Most winters will take care of that for you, unfortunately. I don't know how severe your winters are though. I personally do not recommend ever pruning roses in the fall in cold zones. Wait until spring if you want to do any kind of pruning. The roses need what ever food is stored in those canes to start out with come spring.

The plant is very protected. I’ve had climbers there for 15 years without dieback. I was looking for advice for the spring. I never prune in the fall. I do have a wire trellis on the wall and I’ve tied it at several points. I just fear it is too thick. I’ve never been confident with climbers.