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i was walking around a farm my partner works at and found groups of roses like bushes all abandoned in this field, like it was once someones rose garden but is now overgrown with hay and gopher holes. some i'm not sure are roses there are only stems now. I saw one there that i'm pretty sure is a climber and was the size of a small house. there is one that i'm positive is an antique or really old rose, but all the flowers buds (or where they would be) everywhere have this brown fiborous covering over them, about a little smaller than a golf ball. I opened one up and there was a worm in there. the brown covering is only on the ends where a rose would be. this bush could use a major pruning. if i prune i can cut off all those brown balls. I'd like to dig it out of this abandoned gopher ridden field and take it home to tend, but i'm hesitant because of the chance that the worms may follow. if i cut all of them off and take just the root ball and pruned plant will it be okay?
also do you know identifying marks for roses? if these bushes are roses there is a field of at least fifty with about 5 varieties. that would be neat to salvage some of them.
any advice?
thank you .
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