I have Russell's Cottage Rose that was given to me by a friend and it looks very similar to your rose. It blooms once a year and suckers. It is a smallish rose, reddish pink - but cant say for sure. Your rose is lovely, hope you can identify it. You might send the photo to Mike Shoup at the Antique Rose Emporium - bet he could identify it.

Judith

Since you're in zone 5, you might look at some of the traditional groups of once-blooming roses like Albas and Gallicas, but my impression is that their flowers are usually bigger than what you describe. The impressive cane structure and bloom of your pink climber suggests something that's robustly hardy for you in zone 5, which probably means a rose rated down to zone 3 or 4 in reality. You might check out some of the Canadian Explorer roses. The blooms remind me of my Alexander Mackenzie, but I think it was bred more recently than 1954. What you could do is go to Helpmefind.com and search for dark pink/red (this color can be called red in the rose world) small bloom, once blooming climbers bred before 1954, hardy to zone 4 or better, and see what pops up. I expect this will help you narrow down some options.

Regardless, it's a lovely rose, and congratulations on growing it so successfully from a cutting.

Cynthia

I'm inclined to think that jannorcal is on the right track with this, and that it is Dorothy Perkins, or something much like it.
For comparison, here is 'Russelliana.'

Good photos of the leaves will help, but my first inclination is also towards Dorothy Perkins, or something else with the mark of multiflora (fringed stipules). The leaves aren't really right for much of anything else.

The color seems light to me for Dorothy Perkins. I'm wondering if it could be Excelsa.

I don't have any photos of the leaves and right now we have about 2 foot of snow so it will be a while before I can get any. Thank you for the help though.

One of the Wichurana ramblers of the type like 'Dorothy Perkins' (less pink than this one), 'Excelsa' (more pink - toward red - I believe) etc. There is a whole group of these and they are asked about frequently.

I have looked at both the 'Dorothy Perkins' and the' Excelsa' Roses and the blossoms that were on it last year mostly resemble the 'Dorothy Perkins'. I would like to thank everyone who was kind enough to help me with this mystery. I will continue to grow it but now know a little more about it's needs which will help.

There is a whole group of these cultivars with the two discussed here being but two examples - another name that I think I have seen used for them is Walsh ramblers. Maybe if you do a web search with that term useful hits will come up, with enough photos and descriptions that you can at least start to zero in on which particular one you have. I do not expect 'Dorothy Perkins' to be this dark myself - but I have not checked since coming to this discussion. There are enough different kinds that they can probably be organized into a continuum of levels of pigmentation, with perhaps some enthusiasts calling one of the others 'Dorothy Perkins' by mistake.

This is yet another group of garden plants that were apparently widely sold or perhaps traded between gardeners recently enough that existing plants are common on properties yet garden centers seldom have any of them anymore. In my area 'Dorothy Perkins' in particular can even be seen growing on its own, on unoccupied land like a wild rose yet if I remember correctly I have only seen it offered by one local garden center during my decades of frequenting these.

And in that case I suspect one of the employees had brought in cuttings from which the finished plants offered were raised by the garden center itself, it also being a large growing operation with extensive facilities in the manner of a wholesale production nursery.