Debra, I have a shrub rose that sounds exactly like yours, and its name is Wild Thing! Mine either came from J & P or Wayside.
Steve, you are way ahead on the aging in place plan. We considered an elevator, then decided that everything we needed is on the ground floor, and a fire pole to the basement was about all we could afford.
I think next year you should plant more corn, then build a blind and harvest javelina. The meat would be far better for you than corn, anyway. Rabbits ate my first garden this year, then hail got the 2nd. Drought and 40 mph hot wind got the 3rd crop and I decided the new Natural Foods store needed my business. The Square Foot gardening method works here most years. I'm hoping this was just a bad bad year.
Another rose I'm looking for is one with really big rose hips. My ornamental roses that happen to have hips don't produce enough to make jam.
