Can you estimate how many years it has been growing like this?

Moses

It was planted in spring 2015 so this is it's 3rd summer in the ground. It was a body-bag rose and last year it was growing from the dead stump you see on the right. So it has only been growing like this since this spring. Oh, and I did not move the rose away from the original graft, that's where it came up. It's a pretty decent length out from the original graft.

That's a remarkable feat! Either the rose made an under ground runner, which I have had ever happen only with one rose some years ago, or a stem got bent down in 2015 or 2016, and rooted. Which possibility do you think happened? Or possibly something else occurred, that I have no knowledge of.

Moses

It is pretty weird, I agree with you Moses. I have 2 big dogs, so a bent stem that got buried at some point or trampled (my dogs love to dig in the roses! thought I had not noticed them disturbing the area around FC) is probably what happened. When I planted the rose originally, I planted the graft at soil-level or slightly above, didn't know any better back then and all the info I found said not to bury the graft.

Guess I should thank the dogs for digging! My Love Song put out a big, thick cane from under the dirt my dogs had half-buried her in. She is next to their 'lets-dig-a-hole-to-the-center-of-the-world' 2017 project. That cane bloomed like Love Song so it was definitely not a sucker.