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It does sound like you might have a "volunteer" rose seedling. I have several in my garden - my gardener was horrified when I refused to let him take them out immediately. Let it grow, and see what the blooms look like. You might like it! Most of mine have turned out to be once bloomers, but I kept a couple of them because they were healthy, and I love the flowers. If it looks exactly like Belinda's Dream don't be too surprised - roses do weird things, and if the scion has somehow managed to produce its own roots, it might be from that. It will be fun waiting to see, anyway - good luck! Jackie

I lived in Houston for a decade and this isn't the time of year to see roses there. This is (often) a couple of weeks past pruning. If you haven't been to Antique Rose Emporium up in Brenham and if you have the time for the drive, it does have large and wonderful rose bushes that aren't heavily pruned. Just to see the 'bones' of the garden and how the different roses are structurally, and how they are used informally, if you're interested in that sort of thing, you would enjoy seeing them.

My Baby Blanket is barely reaching ground cover status of 2' X2' but it's in part sun where a lot of roses sulk. Your BB sounds like the experience I have with Sunrise Sunset. It's billed as a ground cover at 2' but that only applies if you consider 2' of height and 25' of width. It sends out MASSIVE long and bushy canes, and I have long since trained its canes onto a nearby arch that fortunately I planted it in front of. Now it is my biggest climber next to Quadra, who is a notorious monster. You have to work with roses as they perform in your yard, and if it looks like it wants to put out long canes, your best idea is to work with what it wants to do so it'll keep pumping out those blooms for you. Just give it time to adjust to its new space. I find that moving a rose can set it back a good year in progress. Cynthia