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Oct 21, 2016 11:52 AM CST
Name: Dr. Demento Jr.
Minnesota (Zone 3b)
Tisha:

I have what I call bush roses, in a different garden, that I do not have to do much with beyond trim to keep them from getting too big but it took years of paying some attention to them before I could just let them go.
Some winters by spring time they were just a few branches surviving.
They are also on the side of a building that even in winter gets sunshine as long as it is up.
Now they are large/er and I am pretty sure even the smallest is over the hump so beyond treating for black spot no extra effort will be done, although they do get buried under snow from the driveway.

As you are moving your roses this year that is when they are more finicky than they will be after getting reestablished.
As Roseblush said, your area should not need the care mine does normally.
If you had hybrid Tea, those would need extra care till they are re-established; I treat all my roses except the different local bush roses as if they were HT roses.

My austin roses did not get the full attention paid to them, and I could not have done much more than I did, due to location, and they slowly died.
If they had lasted a few more years, maybe they would be as tough as the other bush roses but they went one by one till gone.
It is the first few years that kills most roses; I had potted roses from various catalogs, that before I started burying them, did not make it past the first year,
I switched to strictly bare root roses but Sharon bought two potted roses this year I put in, so I will see how well they do this first winter.

Wild rose.
Poison Ivy/brush killer should do it. I use it on grape vines but be carefull.
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