Help identify my rose problem

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    Hi everyone

    I have a well established climbing rose which I cut back hard last season. It produced a couple of blooms in Spring but nothing since. I fed it couple of weeks ago and there is strong new growth but the leaves have something wrong - I'm not sure what and there are no new buds. Attached are a couple of pics of the leaves. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I planted a couple of tree peonies close to the rose last year and they developed some sort of blight. Could that have transferred to the rose?

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    Good evening Monsclara when you say established ,what age is your Rose,the reason I am asking is because for the first 3 years of a climbing Rose IMHO it should not be pruned at all,you say cut back hard,probably to hard my friend but not to worry to much,it will recover,as for the leaf damage it could be any number of pests ie have a look on your Rose leaves both sides to see if there are any pests,I would spray your Rose with soapy water for now,please keep us updated:smile:
     
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      Wiseowl -Thank you for your comment and apologies for not responding sooner - been a hectic few days. The rose in question is about 10 years old and I couldn't spot any pests. But that said, none of my roses are flowering - possibly cutting back too hard as some of them are only a year old. They are all growing tremendously - just no flowers. I think I need to wait until next summer to see what happens. Perhaps I shouldn't cut them back this year?
       
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      You tried to feed it with something?
       
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        Hi Monsclars ,no worries my friend,broadly speaking, there are two kinds of “climbing” roses. First there are the true climbers – those that resemble or are bred from bush roses that flower on the current season’s growth and therefore, like them, should be pruned in winter or early spring. Then there are ramblers that resemble or are bred from wild and old roses, which flower on growth produced the previous season. Your rose could be rambler, and it has behaved exactly as you might expect it to in its first year since you hard pruned it, since, in all probability, all that new growth produced this year will flower next year, so please don’t prune it any more.hope this helps:smile:
         
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          Wiseowl - thank you. I will everything alone and fingers crossed, we will get flowers next year. I assumed it is a climber as it has grown about 3 metres since the beginning of the season.
           
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          Hi there

          I'm definitely no rose expert but I can tell you that the oval holes in the 3rd picture are probably caused by leaf cutter Bees.
           
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          If they are bees, then I guess trying to kill them isn't an option?
           
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          Absolutely not, they are protected.
           
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            They won't cause long term harm to your rose Monsclara,
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              Good afternoon ,IMHO I think the damage is caused by the Cockchafer(May Bug) it is only that the leaf cutter Bee 99% of the time only eats from the outside of the leaf(this is only my personal opinion and it does not mean to detract from Yvonne;s probability at all which I respect greatly:smile:

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