Linda, I'll offer another suggestion: wait it out, if you can. I, too, wanted big barrier roses to stop a neighbor problem. Over ten years ago I planted Cabot, Baffin, A. Mackenzie and R. eglanteria. They worked!. But they also got bigger and bigger. And I came to realize these are some pretty unremarkable roses (well, except for eglanteria and its devine scent). They are really once-blooming roses, scent-free and frumps out of bloom. Well, the teen problem solved itself after two years and I was faced with tending these monsters thereafter. These are very high-maintenance, thorny, suckering roses for northern gardeners. Removing old canes each year is a bloody, time-consuming effort. I decided to remove them, a few each year. Digging the plants out after ten years in the ground was an ordeal. Each one took 1/2 day! The canes were as big around as my wrist at the base. (I am a weight lifter and run five times a week -- I am in pretty good shape). And after I removed Baffin four years ago I still have dozens of unwanted suckers. Eglanteria remains a threat to the new family who moved in. Lovely little children now play there. Eglanteria I keep small by chain sawing it to the ground after it blooms. It still manages to hit five feet by summer's end. I have just a few left to go. Out comes Mackenzie this year. I may remove the eglanteria, too. I realized the effort to maintain/remove these roses far outlasted the neighbor problem. I wish I hadn't planted them

Could also be a nasty weed called cat briar or tramp's troubles. Sparse leave growth. The roots are very wiry and and and have a knobby growth. The roots go on forever. I have dug down 2+ ft and never found the end of a root. You might try Round-Up on it if you paint it on or cut out the bottom of a plastic milk carton and place it over the plant and spray thru the neck portion it would be safer than spraying the plant and overspray getting on nearby valuable plants.

Lisa, I love your photos of the Fairy Rose. I used to work with a guy who grew a long row of them down his side yard, and he'd bring us girls armloads of roses in the spring. We'd all have vases of them sitting on our desks. He was just beaming when he brought in the flowers because he was so proud to be able to share them. He was a really nice man and he told me he wasn't a gardener at all but that his Fairy Rose made him feel like he was a gardener. :) I am picturing the deer netting strung up high on poles like you also see around batting cages or golf driving ranges! We do have a gate now between us and our neighbors to the south. Its actual purpose is to make it easier to drive cattle back into his pasture if they escape into ours, or if we find them out in the road, it might be easier to herd them up our driveway and back through that gate than to herd them all the way back up the road to his pasture. Really, though, I don't know that I can remember his cows ever getting out a single time since we moved here, and that is fairly rare around here. Honestly, our next-door neighbors are so wonderful that we don't need a fence between us and them at all, except to keep the cattle contained. We have the best neighbors in the world, but I know everyone is not that fortunate. Carol, We had bad neighbors on one side of us in Fort Worth, and it gave me a great appreciation for good neighbors, which we've always had, except for some members of that family. One thing about living in a rural area is that we're so spread out we can barely see one another's houses, much less cause one another any problems, though I cannot imagine any of us doing anything that would upset the others. We have the kind of neighborhood that if someone is driving up the road and sees that somebody else's dogs are out running wild (or cows or horses or goats or whatever), they call you and let you know, and 9 times out of 10 they stick around to help you corral the unruly animal and put it back up. Good neighbors are a priceless gift. I do agree with your statement that it usually is the adults who are the problem and not the kids. Good adults will teach their kids to respect the neighbors' property. Dawn

Possibly fernleaf buckthorn or some other type buckthorn, which is supposed to be invasive in some states. Good luck. I have creeping charlie I have to dig up from my neighbors yard every year. That, and Queen Anne's lace. Don't ever plant that stuff. It will take over the neighborhood.