On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:06:39 +0100, Nick Maclaren wrote
(in message ):

It is a pain in the neck when a grafted hybrid dies and you try to
get rid of its rootstock. There is one that I have been trying to
deal with for over 5 years ....

I think that it is the dog rose, but wouldn't bet on it. Anyway,
you are quite right that some roses do sucker and others don't.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In my new garden, where the previous owner had everything hacked down to the
ground by scythe before leaving, there are a lot of big fat and fast-growing
rose shoots coming from a huge trunk, looks very much like a big old graft
rootstock with none of the original top on it. I'm leaving it for now in case
it turns out to be something I might quite like to have a huge vigourous bush
of. The "trunk" is over 6" across so it was really something, once apon a
time. If it isn't at all desirable i will utilise glyphosphate to extinguish
it, assuming it works on, er, trees.

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