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What type of rose is it?

lizzykincaidelizzykincaide Posts: 99
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Hi, I've had this rose for years. It flowers early and only once. I prune it after flowering but it shoots up again but does not flower. In the second picture you can see it is quite tall and I've let my passion flower grow over it. What type of rose is it and should I prune it now?
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  • lizzykincaidelizzykincaide Posts: 99

  • lizzykincaidelizzykincaide Posts: 99

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,656
    Lots of old fashioned climbing, rambling and shrub roses only flower once.  Impossible to identify without a pic of the flowers.    If you prune after flowering you lose the hips which extend the season of interest.  If you prune again now you may well be removing stems that would flower next year.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,359
    ..rather a large 'Rosa glauca'… you can prune that back by a third or so if you want, but you want to keep a good amount of cane so you get flowers next year and then hips... it does only flower once in late Spring....it's got quite lanky and you would normally get more hips than that, so I think some care and attention is necessary to promote more flowers and hips... that's what this rose is grown for.. the foliage, which is blue-ish, the purple canes, and the hips...
    East Anglia, England
  • lizzykincaidelizzykincaide Posts: 99

  • lizzykincaidelizzykincaide Posts: 99
    I've included a photo Obelixx hope that helps. Marlorena, it just shot up after pruning. I think this year I pruned it twice because it was getting out of control. Do I need to take off more than a third then after flowering?
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,359
    Well I've never seen a rosa glauca look like that, it's gone from blue to green, pink flowers to white, because obviously it's not that rose.. so sorry about that.. I think I was looking at your passion flower.. let's try again..
    Did you plant it?   it looks like common rootstock to me that's been allowed to grow up.. the original rose may have died or been removed long ago..
    ...do you like it?... if not I would get rid of it... but if it means something to you, then that's what I now think it is...looking again at your first photo and how it's coming out of the ground at the base there, it's as if another rose was there originally but no longer..

    ..this was a bit of rootstock in my own garden.. not a great photo..



    East Anglia, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,656
    Might be one of those rampant ramblers like Kiftsgate or Rambling Rector or Wedding Day in which case it wants to get to 10 metres or so and is probably in the wrong place.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,359
    No, it wouldn't be one of those, I'm confident it's rootstock.. I should have had a better look at the base in the first photo..  the angle of the growth tells me the original rose has been removed at some point..
    East Anglia, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,656
    You're probably right.  Just thought the flowers looked better than a usual rootstock.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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