How to get rid of "Dr. Huey" without killing beautiful roses?

[Smart Red]

That's them, the spiny, prickly things.

 

[Nyboy]

If only garden roses where half as tough !! have never seen a pest eat them, grows in dry shade, no matter how many times you scalp them they grow back.

 

[so lucky]

Would this be Multiflora Roses? They were planted years ago by the conservation department in an attempt to stop soil erosion and define grazing lands, and provide wildlife habitat. Kinda like the Kudzu of the North....with thorns.
I think probably the only way to get them out is to grub them out, and get all he roots.

 

[Nyboy]

Not sure lucky I always just called them wild roses, And almost always white flowered suppose to have a pink flowered but I never seen it.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's different than our wild roses. Ours are Woods rose (Rosa woodsii, I think )
they are pink and smell nice, bloom once and come up here and there. They aren't hard to get rid of though.

 

[Smart Red]

Not sure lucky I always just called them wild roses, And almost always white flowered suppose to have a pink flowered but I never seen it.

We have a pink flowered variety around here, lucky us, but I've seen more of the white flowering rose bushes.

 

[GardenGeisha]

Thanks, Nyboy. So weird that I've never seen this rose before, and I have traveled widely. LOL!

 

[Nyboy]

Your lucky you never seen it.

 

[ducks4you]

I just love my yellow knockout rose. ONE SEASON of pampering and it grows huge and wide and keeps on giving back. I bought a nondescript clearance red rose last Fall---lost the tag, so I cannot identify it---and it survived to bloom this year. I have it 3 1/2 feet east of the yellow knockout.
Don't forget that roses LOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE fresh or dried out horse manure. I dump it fresh by the roots and they flourish.

 

[GardenGeisha]

I love my Knockouts, too!