Just wanted to point out, multiflora roses won't just spread invasively for the property owner.... From the Plant Conservation Alliance: "Fruits are readily sought after by birds which are the primary dispersers of its seed. It has been estimated that an average multiflora rose plant may produce a million seeds per year, which may remain viable in the soil for up to twenty years. Germination of multiflora rose seeds is enhanced by passing through the digestive tract of birds." Soon they'll pop up at your neighbors, & beyond. These really are horrible invaders, very destructive. Here is a link that might be useful: multiflora rose facts

I hadn't seen it in the three different versions. It's shocking to me that that was a decade ago. Time passed quickly as the disease got worse in the east. A lot of the eastern references are from me (Peck) and were up to date at the time. Since then, it's spread even farther south, east and north. The other thing that's new is that RRD is now proven to be a virus in the family Emarovirus in work by Alma Lacey published last year. It also means that I've had RRD in and around my rose garden for well over a decade and I'm still growing roses.

From your description it sounds like it's a grandiflora rose and not a hybrid tea. I'm not sure Chris Evert is a match. Take a look at Glowing Peace and see if that looks more like it. Here is a link that might be useful: Glowing Peace at HMF

If you just bought it pure Rosa multiflora would not be in bloom now, and the long, arching first year canes would have had to have been whacked back to fit a blooming sized plant into the usual retail situation - unless it was trained onto a trellis or other support and sold as an established climber. Except where an R. multiflora seedling variant might have come up as a Multiflora rose, that is one producing re-blooming bush growth instead of rambling. But it is much more likely that you have bought one of the hybrid roses that may often have R. multiflora in their parentage, resemble it to varying degrees. One looking generally like R. multiflora (whatever its actual parentage, which I would have to look up) that was at several outlets here this year was Gourmet Popcorn. Another one that tends to be seen at independent garden centers is 'Ballerina'. But there are many possibilities, the R. multiflora appearance - with more or less conical heads of small white or pink flowers - is not rare among garden roses, both old and new. Here is a link that might be useful: How can I identify a mystery rose? This post was edited by bboy on Tue, Dec 31, 13 at 15:20