Pruning 'Seven Sisters' Climbing Rose – Don't Cut New Basal Canes

New Shoots Cover Blooms – Husband Wants to Prune

10-year-old Seven Sisters sends up new basal canes right before bloom.

Bloom on Second-Year Wood

Seven Sisters is a multiflora hybrid: new canes bloom the *following* year. Cutting them removes next year's flowers and growth.

Advice

Leave new basal canes. They are next year's flowering wood.