Re: rambling rose

Where you have one shoot that looks like the original & multiple other stems that don't, I wonder if the others may be seedlings. I have many seedling roses from birds (or squirrels) eating rose hips in my trees. Can you dig around to see if there is a common root to these? Maybe trim off the reddish shoots on the side with the one that looks 'right" and leave a few on the other side of the tree? That might give each a chance, protecting the gray green one without destroying all of the others. That looks crowded in any case & I'd be wanting to thin them a bit anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: [CHAT] rambling rose
I think I mentioned b4 that my Rosa 'Paul's Himalayan Musk Ramber' took a terrible hit last December in a storm. It had been a 30 footer, rising up the center of a Norway Maple and then out over the canopy. When I wrote a few months ago I was concerned about when to prune it and the concensus was to wait until after it bloomed. Well, it was completely shot, there's essentially nothing left.
New shoots are coming from the base which is on the south side of the tree. New shoots are also rising on the north side of the tree, apparently from roots that had circled around to that side. However, almost all the new shoots have scraggly, wavy, reddish leaves. Only one shoot resembles the original rose. I had thought that this rambler was an own-root rose, not grafted, so I am puzzled at the appearance of these new shoots. 

What do you think I should do now?

Here is a link to the 3 photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmrsy/sets/72157601054303357/


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
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