Annie, is that grey woodie bit the rose? Seems the shoots are growing from that. If it was a rose cut down and left to die then it must have been a big one. Ummm, opposite leaves, serated, and the stems seem to resemble a vine! Yes, it could be a rose, a climber, perhaps. I think I'd let it grow on a bit and see how it develops. Does it get any aphids attack? Or Blackspot fungus on the leaves? Neither of those are obvious. Also, if you want to keep it, I'd give it a bit of a feed, a dose of trace elements would give it a real boost. Oh, and I don't see any thorns! By the way, is the pink fading to white flower a fallen Magnolia.

The rose was originally Burgundy Iceberg and it belongs to my neighbour. I know my roses are sad but not THAT sad! :):)
The whole thing had died down to just the grey stumps but then after the rain we had a few weeks back, it suddenly resprouted with those funny looking roses in the first photo. Those have died away (naturally) and the next lot looked a bit more like the rose we all know and love. That burgundy fallen petal is from the second lot. Still not like the real deal but getting there. I'm wondering how she would take it if I offered to put new plants in and take the rose out and see if I can save it....or if she would even notice!!!

Burgundy Iceberg, ay! Yeah, annie, I reckon it's worth a try, seems she (the neighbour) doesn't want it or is incapable of caring for it, so why not ask her. Tough as roses are, that one looks doomed anyway. By the way, you should see my rose garden, I've completely neglected it after moving them all a year ago. I was concentrating on heritage roses - they don't flower as prolifically as modern varieties but mostly they are aphids and blackspot free - Rugosa varieties; Rosa Rugosa, Frau Dagmar Halstrup, 'Ann Endt', Blanc Double de Coubert, 'Lilian Freeman', Rosa Rugosa Scabosa; plus a few others including a nice David Austin. But my lack of time and fading inclination has seen that garden fill with weeds, but this week, if the weather permits and it's not too hot, I'll get to and redesign a whole new garden for them. One or two though, will have to go - the more modern ones. If you're interested you can have them. Better than just taking them to the tip. I'f you're interested I'll give you details of the varieties; I think I have a photo or two of some in 'Photobucket' and can post them here if you'd like to see them.
Regards
B.

thanks for the offer but no, thanks. I've more or less given up on roses. They really are a labour of love in Brisbane and I persevered because I do love them. But then I got a "real" job and something had to go. Unfortunately it was the roses. I gave some away and the rest was a case of the survival of the fittest. Now, seven years later, I only have a half-a-dozen left but I have to tell you, Cramoisi Superior is the BEST! even totally ignored, more or less, it still blooms away and no black spot!! Just about unheard of, here in Brisbane. I do mourn the loss of Duchesse de Brabant and General Gallieni and Crepuscule though. I found the old roses seem to do better than a lot of the more modern ones. oh, yeh and Louis XIV..that was a glorious rose but the thorns!! holy moly!! damn it, now you've got me all nostalgic. Every now and then (like now) I think I might just get a couple more but I know me...I won't stop at just a couple. One thing that does stop me is that we've lost the BEST rose nursery where I used to be able to find all these old roses without having to mail order. Anyway, I discovered Tropicals...heliconias, gingers, cordylines AND I don't have to spend every day doing something to them. Feed them, throw water at them (when it's not raining) and every year thin them out. Wow! I never knew that gardening could be this easy!! :):):) I'd love to see your garden. Are you in Sydney?

Ha, ha, ha; deij-a-vou (excuse spelling) annie. I'm trying to get down to 'half-a-dozen' but doubt I will. They are time consuming, golly, are they ever! Crepuscule, by the way, is the rose that adorns Flemington racetrack in Melbourne and every year rosarians go to extreme lengths to make sure they put on that wonderful show for the Melbourne cup. I had one for awhile but too warm here for it. I live and garden, by the way, at a place called Terranora, about 10 minuites west of Tweed Heads, Northern Rivers, NSW; about a third of the distance to Murwillumbah, on the edge of the Tweed Valley. It really is God's country, annie. We moved here from Sydney just on ten years ago and I've been converting this 4029 sq metres of weeds into a garden ever since.
I've got to get into my rose garden, in about a month's time when it's a shade cooler and the roses are more at rest. Alan, my neighbour, is interested so I might see if he wants one or two more - I gave him 2 or three last winter, Meiland's (a French grower) 'Seduction', a profuse flowerer of lovely light whitey-pink blooms with a gorgeous perfume.
I've just completed my first chore of the season, prunning back about 30 various salvias, many I bought a few years ago by mail order from Sue Templeton in Victoria, she's regarded as Australia Salvia guru. They look great in a long border, but do need an annual hard prune and tidy up.
Oh, and also there's a nursery I've been meaning to visit at Toowoomba, about 2kms north along the New England Highway. They are rose specialists and claim to have developed disease resistant strains of heat tolerent roses! I heard about them a year or so ago and keep promising to take my wife for a drive there for a weekend, well, short holiday, but haven' got there yet. But I ask meself' 'do I need anymore roses?'
Regards
Bill