I have done similar. I grow everything (even shrubs and trees) from seed, and more than once, have plucked a seedling, instead of a weed, in such a way as to render it unplantable. Sigh. Entire plants gone that took me months and money to grow. I hope your rose only finds it a pruning and now needs foliage to be "replaced", growing quickly and filling in nicely. Best of luck!

Thanks rob. I hope you're right and the rose decides to fill in the hole with new growth. I didn't get it cut off quite as close to the ground as I should have, hope that doesn't cause the cane that was growing off it to die back. :( I'm sick about it.

Not a fix but maybe you could take the bough and force it in a pitcher to at least enjoy the blooms. I know how you feel as I've done this myself, and I was sick about it too,

It was a taller, long bough with canes on it, buds still tight. Isn't it awful? I keep going out to look at the shrub and assure myself that it isn't ALL that bad, but then I remember what I tossed on the brush pile. ha Oh well, time to come in and rest in the air conditioning.

I'd like to know what that scrub tree it is. It started out very small, but it grows deep within the shrub and one really doesn't notice it until the branches and leaves suddenly shoot up. I have them growing in other areas of the property too. Have to get rid of them or you'll have a big tree in no time. Not a walnut either.

That is a shame. I get so annoyed with myself when I do things like that. Is there any chance the bough could be rooted and planted so that you'd have a new rose bush?

I certainly know that feeling! Last year I planted hibiscus seeds and they grew to about 2 feet tall. This spring I got smart and put fertilizer on them hoping to make them grow faster and have at least one flower . well. While using the weedwhacker last week I whacked both of them right off! UGH!!!

Some roses benefit by a hard pruning and respond with renewed growth and more canes. Often People from the north trim back to a couple feet or so, to prune off freeze damage.

Oh I'm sorry. I don't grow roses anymore because I couldn't stand it when I screwed something up when tending them.

I have lavender that wound up with all the snow from when my husband cleared the driveway on top of it. When the snow melted a whole section of it had broken off, I was so sad. Every day since then, when coming and going, I have been checking the bush to see if it's filling in - it's filling in.

People here, Cdn west coast, prune their rose bushes ruthlessly, Perhaps it won't completely recover this year, but I have faith that next year it'll be fine.

I've done that too. Sure makes you mad when it happens. I used to grow a lot of old roses from cuttings. Saw a program on PBS on how to do it. The first one I ever did, came from a local cemetery and was Climbing Old Blush. It wasn't climbing but was growing in a lovely vase shape. It is easy to root and blooms all the time here. I drove by the cemetery the other day....first time in many years....and a darned hackberry tree has grown up in the center of it and there is very little left of it. Made me sad.

Schoolhouse, take pictures of the foliage and perhaps it can be identified. I'll give it a shot, anyway.

Sorry that happened schoolhouse. I'll bet that it will recover quickly.

I join this club. Have also trimmed sick branches only to learn I trimmed a healthy one and left sick one behind. After doing 2nd trim, had a really big hole, ugh.

Pleading guilty as well. Best solution forgive yourself and avoid looking at the rose when you pass by it for awhile.

At least it will grow back.

I've destroyed a few plants by messing with the root system. Usually, I'm trying to get at a weed or other invasive plant and bring out the tools and the plant I like suffers. I killed two hydrangeas by going above and beyond in my attempts to get the flowers to turn blue. Daylillies look like weeds when they first come out of the ground. I might have pulled up a few and thrown them away.

I'm not sure if it's the same one that develops long drooping white blooms.

Well, that sucks, schoolhouse. I know I did something like that recently with something not plant related...just can’t think of what it was at the moment!

As for plant-related screwups I’ve experienced, the one that immediately comes to mind — and is sort of a combo of mamap and marylmi’s — is the time one of the guys who works for the yard maintenance company mistakenly (?) pulled a newly planted oak sapling which we had started from an acorn! UGH.

I could start a whole thread on those guys. :-/

That sort of looks like a mulberry I fought in the past. I kept cutting it to the roots. I even tried to kill the roots. We sold that house in 2006. Dh and I pulled up a google earth picture last year. Danged if it isn't a large tree now. There was a power line there I didn't want to pay to trim around. Birds loved those trees and would sit around and poop on the cars below. I'm not against trees, but that one was located in a bad spot.

Schoolhouse, I can't really ID it at this point, so sorry. You might try the Name That Plant forum in the gardening forums. Be sure to include your general location in your post.

It may be a Chokecherry.

I don’t know what happens to some of my replies lately. I have had several that just never seem to post.

Anyway, I have done the same and it breaks my heart, but I am sure Your rose will be as lovely as ever soon.

I have a lot of sweet gum and oak seedlings that seem to crop up everywhere. I catch most, but now and then one seems to root right next to a shrub. One thing I have done with good success is to clip the offender close to the ground and paint straight Roundup on the stem with a foam brush. It might work for you for this offender.