Question
i dont have a green thumb but im trying.  we recently bought a house that already had a climbing bush,which i trimmed and prunned and is quite beautiful.  but the other three regular bushes i also trimmed and pruned but only one bush got one single bud and it opened but nothing else.  they are just green leaves.  i could tell that they havent been cared for in a while.  is there any suggestions you can offer?

Answer
When you prune a rose you activate it into making new growth so that is the purpose for pruning. The secret to growing healthy and long lived roses is to make them produce new wood every year. If you don't they soon have canes that are old and hard and therefore very difficult for any new canes to push out of. You have made the old rose bushes make new growth and they are putting all their strength doing it but at the expense of making flowers. The stardard proceedure for rejuvinating an  uncared for rose bush, is to prune it back by half and then cut out to the base one or two of the very old greyish coloured canes. This makes way for new basal growth. That is what you do for roses that haven't been touched for years.
If yours are simply uncared for for a few years, then a hard pruing back by a half and cutting out any dead or diseased canes, is all that is needed. If they are hybrid teas or floribundas, then you can expect some blooms later on in the summer. If they are the very old roses, you may have to wait until next year as they usually bloom on this years wood, the wood you have pruned off. Most likely they are hybrid teas.
Because roses are greedy feeders, they may have used up a lot of the nutrients in their soil so if you could put some fresh soil around them or a bag of steer manure, then that will give them something to feed on as well as a handful of any rose fertilizer. Use the fertilizer once in the spring when they are starting to leaf out and then another handful after they have bloomed once. If you live in a cold winter climate, don't use fertilizer after the last week in July. Then the roses won't make new growth and will harden off their canes to go through the winter.
On the whole climbers don't need to be pruned if you have the room for them. You can just cut back the climber to make it stay in it's allotted space. Hope this helps.