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Can anybody identify this rose?

This rose bush grows to about 7' tall, maybe a little taller ... gets quite leggy ... and has almost furry stems which cause me rashes as well as scratches!

The blooms are quite prolific but are pale pink and slightly smaller than the "classic" roses which have bigger thorns on smoother stems.  

Here's some pictures ... any ID's would be great as I'm looking to add another one as the older stems were dark and dead looking and when I removed the actual dead wood last week it thinned it out a bit more than I wanted.


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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    ROSA RUGOSA
    Devon.
  • jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
    edited March 2019
    Nice work @Hostafan1 ... just read up on it and it looks like the one!  
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
     :D 
    Devon.
  • jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
    edited March 2019
    @Hostafan1 (or anyone:-)) with this variety, is now too late to prune these stems by 1/4 given this would remove the main bursting buds which are generally at the top of the 6’ leggy stems?

    There isn’t huge growth yet.

    Also there are a lot of dark stems that have produced buds too but seem a bit unhappy.  I wonder can I remove one or two of these at the base and expect some regrowth? 
  • Actually I'll put this to a new thread ...
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