My husband and I planted four climbing roses this weekend. I am not new to rose care, I had a rose garden at my mother's house for several years before getting married and moving out on my own. I didn't have any climbing roses though.
My husband had the idea to use wire fencing to give the roses something to climb. The idea is for them to climb and cover all or part of the wooden privacy fence. Will the wire fencing attached to the privacy fence be supportive enough for the roses to grow one? He is talking about something heavy gauge like rabbit fencing for gardends, not light chicken wire kind of stuff.
My second question is about pruning. I'll admite I am lazy LoL, and rarely pruned my rose garden the last year that I lived at home. Is pruning a climbing rose different than a tea rose?