Need help IDing a rose... (flower, grow, front yard, spring)

[cstleddy]

I've posted this in a forum on another website, but haven't gotten any hits so I thought I'd try here.

This rambling type rose is in my front yard and I'm in zone 7B, Raleigh, NC. I whacked it to about 1' last year and it came back to 7'+. It doesn't get many blooms, but it has clusters in June and then nothing in the heat of the summer.

Thanks

[azoria]

The pics are not good, but this does not look like an 'old rambler'. The stems are very thick and the leaves very large. Looks like some kind of modern hybrid climber. Many climbers bloom only once a year.

Or:

It is also possible that this existing plant is the root stock from a rose bush whose grafted branches died, leaving the undesirable climber rootstock surviving. Not terribly attractive flowers, overwhelming greenery, uncontrolled growth.

If you like the plant--fine. If it is too big, too unwieldy, doesn't flower well, and is generally unattractive--get rid of it. Dig it up, throw it away, plant something you like better. Life is too short to put up with ugly plants overwhelming a perfectly usable space.

[william777]

I agree with azoria. Dig it up and get rid of it! Replace it with REGIONAL wildflowers that grow throughout Summer, Spring and parts of fall. They last longer and you won't have as many maintenance issues as you do with roses.
http://www.outsidepride.com/seed/wildflower-seed

[Luvvarkansas]

I agree also, it's not very pretty. I would get rid of it. Plenty of beautiful roses to take its place.

[cstleddy]

Thank you for your comments. You are so right. This rose is not doing well and it really holds no interest for me and I don't really care to ID it or learn any more about it at this point. I think I'll give it next year and I'm going to see if someone in my neighborhood would like to have it.