Can I save this rose bush?

[revelsandrose]

Firstly I am the worst gardener and rarely keep anything alive. I moved into this house two years ago and the garden was very overgrown and we just cleared everything. Although we found a little rose bush and took it out of the ground and put it in a pot to "save" it. It's been in that pot ever since, no holes in the base of the pot so it turned to sludge and the rose bush is just dry twigs.
I bought a new pot and compost, took the bush out and repotted it, there is one tiny green shoot at the base. Can I save it? Shall I cut off the tall dry twigs? Or give up? Thanks

Cut off the dead branches and see what happens this year. It's obviously not dead yet.

Depends if it was grafted or not. If you are getting new growth from the base then the root stock might be sending this out rather than the actual rose. Still worth keeping though and see what happens

The green shoot proves it’s still alive!
I would cut off the dead wood above that green shoot.
Though as PP have said, a lot (but not all!) roses are grafted, if your root is grafted then the shoot is indeed not your rose but the rose variety it was grafted onto.
Usually a wild rose.
Be patient and see what happens!

Well, pretty much everything around it is dead and has been chopped off, not much left now, might have to put it in a smaller pot it looks silly now!
I don't really understand what grafted means but if I grow a wild rose and it's pretty then that's fine by me thanks all

Grafting is done either to start your plants on some stronger roots, or to control size (especially fruit trees) by grafting a vigorous tree on to a smaller growing one.

You take a strongly growing plant and cut it off near the base. Then you take a piece of a closely related plant, place the two cut ends together and fasten them in place, and wrap them round with waterproof wax, and they fuse together like a single plant. So your rose is likely to be the rose that you know with the roots of a wild rose.

Normally, just the grafted rose grows, but if you plant it too deep, the wild rose rootstock will throw up “suckers “. And if the top dies off, then the wild rose will just take over.

Thanks everyone, I changed it to a smaller pot and the little shoot came away from the big woody roots and it has its own little white roots, so guessing it will be a wild rose, I'm keeping it anyway and hoping it grows nicely, fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Unless it’s an entirely different plant that got tangled up in the rose 🤔
Do the leaves look like rose leaves?
I have a few roses and they are quite distinctive at this time of year I find.

Oh no, I'm not very knowledgeable about plants so I hope I'm not feeding and watering a weed amongst my lobelias
Photo attached if anybody could take a look please

It certainly looks like a rose.

I agree, that does look like a baby rose.
How exciting!