A novice here. I've recently moved into a house with a pleasant but - for the
last three months - neglected garden.

I'm sure there's a list of jobs I will need to attend to since there seems to be
a wide variety of shrubs (though I suspect nothing extraordinary) but I am
concerned about what, with the help of my readers digest pics, I've identified
as a weigela, It's about 8 feet tall (RD seems to set 6 feet as standard) just
started to flower but has some particularly long stems growing from its middle -
anything up to 11 feet tall. Can I cut these back now or should I wait until
the flowering has finished?

Also roses of many kinds (sorry for my blind ignorance on this) I suspect shrub,
climbing etc. Any rules of thumb for pruning etc that I could use for immediate
guidance prior to achieving my goal of becoming competent?

most grateful for any input.