My plants have gone mutant!

[Fastpedaller]

I don't know if anyone else has experience of this (or can offer advice)?
Last year our dwarf apple tree grew a lot and got very 'leafy' but still produced some apples.
This year it's all gone wild! I trimmed the dwarf apple back as far as I dared in March/April, so there was just a main trunk and probably 4 branches. It's now 2m high and looks like a huge bush of leaves and branches. Very few apples this year.
My Wife planted a climbing rose a couple of years ago, and this year it's also gone wild, about 2m high, and the new 'branches' (probably incorrect description) look a lot lighter colour than established ones, and have no thorns on them - all very strange.
We are in East Norfolk, so until recently there has been little rain, and very high temperatures all year. I wonder if it's the plants 'protecting' themselves by growing as much surface area to dissipate heat?
At this rate, even if I trim the dwaft apple tree before Winter, it'll be truly enormous by this time next year.

 

[Punkawallah]

Fish. Barrels.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

At this rate, even if I trim the dwaft apple tree before Winter, it'll be truly enormous by this time next year.

Can't advise on the roses - I think they are producing suckers that need removed.
Have the roses been fed? Maybe the plant feed used was too potent
About the apple tree: I think you were sold a full size variety, mislabeling happens.
If you don't have space, uproot it when it's dormant, then relocate.
Apple and pear trees must be trimmed when dormant, in winter, when they have no leaves.
December, January, February are the right months, if you did it before winter last time this explains the lack of fruit.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

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[Profpointy]

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[Fastpedaller]

Can't advise on the roses - I think they are producing suckers that need removed.
Have the roses been fed? Maybe the plant feed used was too potent
About the apple tree: I think you were sold a full size variety, mislabeling happens.
If you don't have space, uproot it when it's dormant, then relocate.
Apple and pear trees must be trimmed when dormant, in winter, when they have no leaves.
December, January, February are the right months, if you did it before winter last time this explains the lack of fruit.

Did it in March/April last year.
It's been there about 15 years, and never done this huge-growth thing before last year - this year has been immense though. I can only think it's the heat that's caused it. the rose hasn't had fed (other than the soakaway from the septic tank being a few mtrs away), since our daughter moved out 3 years ago the soakaway will have had less through it, especially as we've been at hers a good proportion of the time rebuilding her house.

 

[Gillstay]

You more than likely have over pruned it, so now all it wishes to do is too make growth. Fruit comes on 2nd year wood and all you would have had is 1st year hence little fruit. You now need to carefully slow the tree down my pruning less than say 15% per year until it slows down, then get it back to the shape you want.

 

[All uphill]

If the dwarf apple was grafted onto a robust apple root it may be that the rootstock is sending out its own new growth which will be robust.