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It looks very healthy!
I'd be interested to follow your experiences with this rose.
Looking at various plants around the traps over here, it seems to assume quite different habits depending on the method of pruning / trimming.
It always wants to push out new growth from just under the last flower, so it can quickly become rangy.
I always run out of time to do these things properly and have ended up with a strange, tall rangy thing that has pushed bits of itself into the surrounding roses for support. It's very happy like that and works well as long as you don't need to get between the roses but it's probably better to try to get the right balance between trimming off too much and too little so that it supports itself. Sounds like a metaphor for parenting.
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Ok, well it's currently a lot smaller and in a pot. This is due to a howling southerly coming over the hill and blowing the entire plant clean off its rootstock, back in early October 2016.
So I found it bowled down the bottom of the block the next morning, and rescued it for cuttings. One of those has survived nicely. It's about 40 cm tall at the moment and seems healthy. On it's own roots now, of course. Presumably this means it can't take flying lessons in the next howling southerly.
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Impressive! Stunt gardening at your place. How often do you get winds like that and do your roses list to the north?
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"How often do you get winds like that..."
Not all that often. However we do also get howling westerlies in late winter (common east coast thing, due to the ocean being warmer than the land) and we also get howling nor'easters sometimes, when a tropical depression comes down the coast.
Some of the roses lean all over the place. :D
I'm going to plant some trees to get some windbreaks happening.
By the way: I rooted the cutting by just standing it in a glass of water for weeks. Only method that seemed to work. All the others died.
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