Plant ID please

[FairytaleofBykerGrove]

We have moved house recently have have three of these bushes growing and sending up runners. They are extremely prickly - do you know what it is? Do we want to keep them or try and remove them before summer?

Hi there,
Just showed hubby and he thinks it might be part of the gooseberry family but an ornamental bush type - no fruit.
Maybe leave one bush and get rid of others.
Now is the best time to move them into a place you prefer.
We moved into our first home 6 years ago and we are still playing the scratch, sniff and puzzles game with plants 😂😂😂😂😂
Good luck and enjoy!

Forgot to mention that I found some great gardening books in our charity shops.

Good luck

I thought gooseberry as well.

I’d be thrilled if it was a fruiting gooseberry. Ornamental I can live without! Thanks for the pointers - lots here that remains unidentified but want to get some of our own Favourites in too so trying to decide what to dig up and what to leave. Might give these a year and see what happens before we decide.

If it is gooseberry can I have a cutting please😂😂😂
That's a good idea to leave one - I've managed to get a wild fern to grow in a pot this way. This year I'm going to try and grow strawberries from the fruits!
If your on a tight budget then the poundshop and one below shops have some great value items in them.
And have a look at neighbours gardens, admire and get advice. I did this and I'm on my second year with a vegetable garden 😁😁😁

I’ve just been in touch with the old owner - she says they are roses!

They look like Rosa rugosa, it's a pretty tough type of rose.

Yes, Rosa rugosa. (It wouldn't be a gooseberry - gooseberries have "simple" leaves, this plant has its leaves divided into leaflets).

It will have big single flowers in June (larger than the flowers of dog rose), followed by huge red hips which are decorative in their own right, but which are much loved by greenfinches, They also make good rose-hip jelly.

I'd suggest leaving them till the autumn and see whether you like them, remove them in the autumn if you want to.They look much nicer once their in full growth.