O for heavens sake - I have removed loads of this (and Japanese Knotweed, goutweed, trumpet vine and other supposedly immortal plants). Round up definitely does work but I would suggest an awful lot of posters on this thread are not reading the instructions. Multiple sprayings over a few weeks, spraying roots, spraying tiny bits of foliage...and so on. Round up is completely effective when used correctly, at the right time, when foliage cover is at peak growth...which is late spring or autumn. The exceptions usually involve plants with a lot of silicone which will require the cell walls to be ruptured (by crushing) or a direct dosage into the plant capillary system (usually done with knotweed or giant hogweeds). Personally, I find the autumn spray to be more effective as the plant has the maximum amount of foliage and is at the pivot point where top growth/root growth balance is tipping back towards the roots, where we want the glyphosate to do it's nefarious work. It takes up to 6 weeks before the effects of Round Up can even be seen so multiple sprayings is overkill. Using Round Up at incorrect dosages is also a waste - using a stronger mix is no guarantee of eventual success. For a really bad infestation, 2 sprays, one in spring and a later one when there is sufficient regrowth (which is towards the end of summer) will kill 995 of houtynnia. Further vigilance the following season, with careful hand weeding, will finish the problem. Finally, in the annals of pesticides and chemical use, Round Up is comparatively innocuous, compared to the bad old days of sodium chlorate, DDT and so on. Whilst daily use is obviously undesirable, a timed and targeted spray is not tantamount to the ninth circle of hell...whereas untreated infestations of invasives is a whole lot worse.

You don't. If the issue is the root stock has taken over and the budded variety you wanted and obtained to plant has died out, then you are left with a once-flowering climber. If you want it to flower the best possible, then you train it as you would any climber, bending the canes down to closer to the horizontal so it produces lateral growth along the canes which will then flower. If you don't want a climber or haven't the room for it, then you simply whack the heck out of it down to about the size you want, then it will flower NEXT year on the remaining growth. Or, wait for it to flower, then whack the devil out of it. Either way, you likely have a once-flowering climber and eventually you're either going to have to treat it like one, keep whacking it down to keep it a small plant or replace it with a new plant. These are Dr. Huey, the likely rose you have and are dealing with. Notice the tall growth above the one plant? All the others would have those, too, had they not been cut off. But, they WILL appear...sooner or later.

Mary for years we gave most of it away, then we ran into a little problem. The neighbors started expecting it and kept asking when the stuff would be ready, like we were the grocery store. We said why don't you plant some stuff, I am sure you will do great " oh no its to much trouble" or "it takes water" or "I am really not into it". This was not just the garden but the fruit trees as well. So now we depose of it other ways. CHICKEN LITTLE STORY

No, but I’ve had it happen.