I purchases a house last year, This spring a rose came up next to an ever green bush?

Question

It is red in color it got a bit bushy at the base maybe 1/8 of a foot around than shot up 1 stalk about 4 feet. there is no budding going on and it does not seem to have grown anymore at all. Is this a true rose? or is it something else. I know roses but I have never seen one act or look like this.

Answer 1

You may have a left over rose root or a wild rose.  In either case it will be an inferior rose.  It will eventually bloom but get rather big and out of control, have only a few petals and probably bloom just once per season.  I'd dig it out.

Answer 2

sounds like a sucker it may go below the soil it wants cutting off as near to the root as you can

Answer 3

I wouldn't jump to conclusions. There's no way for me to identify what you have without seeing it of course or the bush it's next to. But i'd wait and see what you have. If it is a rose, even a root stock, it may be one you like. There's a lot of root stock roses that have very nice habits for certain locations and when the wod is a little harder you could take cuttings from it. You may even try to graft some of them. It's a very simple thing to do, not rocket science and not magic.

Answer 4

It sounds like a brier rose. The bloom of a wild rose is meant to show you your perfect love if you sleep with it under your pillow on the summer solstice. Good luck.