In not too long a time (like next spring, maybe?) nurseries in Massachusetts won't be allowed to sell this or grow this because it's too invasive. Once it's mature it sets fruit that the birds love, but then they poop the seeds into the wild where the plants displace the native shrubs.

It's better to leave the roots alone as much as possible to protect the feeder roots. If you get a nice, intact rootball and move it gently the rose won't even know that it has been moved. Now it a good time to do it especially if it is still cool out and your area has a rainy spring. The best way to winter protect a rose in zone 5 is to plant it 4-6 inches deeper than it was in the pot. That way you can protect the graft without doing any extra winter protection. Don't do any pruning in the fall as the cuts from pruning can make the rose more vulnerable to the cold. The chicken wire cage goes around the rose to hold in the mulch and stop rodents from eating the rose during the winter. The mulch then goes around the rose to as high as you want it. The more mulch you put in around the rose, the more green cane you will have in the spring. But you need to also consider how wet your winters and springs are. If the mulch is too wet then it can provide the right conditions for the rose to get canker. Canker is an infection of the rose that occurs mostly in damp spring conditions. I no longer do any winter protection on my roses because I lost more cane to canker than to the winter cold. As for your transplanted rose, it will be fine. Keep watering it every day or every other day for the first week and every few days after that and it should recover.

Other suggestions to look into would be lilacs - the Miss Kim variety grow fast and to a height of 4-6 and 5-6 wide with a later bloom time than other Lilacs. Look into Red Twig Dogwood too. Red Twig has tiny white flowers. Very pretty in the winter.

I have a similar problem. The bottom half of the bush is dark red, the top half is green. 2 winters ago rabbits chewed off most of it so I pruned it back to shape in the spring. It was smaller last year but it turned red. Last winter was very mild and a few branches dried out. This spring I cut the dead branches off. The bush pretty much exploded and had a great growth this year, it's about 6 feet tall. It's not looking very nice but I wanted to leave it to grow for now. The bottom 1.5 foot is dark red, the 2 branches that were chewed off and didn't really have a great growth, and the top part does not look like it is going to change color, which is where all the new hight happened this year. Not sure what to do with it. I was thinking that it is a hybrid and some branches reverted back to the original colorless state? If that's the case I would have to cut all of the green off, but I don't know if burning bushes are actually made hybrid. I will wait confirmation on that before I get to it with the branch cutter again. I will attach the picture I just took. The red leaves are falling off now too. We had the first frost a few weeks ago.