2 questions in 1 thread! ID and roses, thanks

[Kentuki]

Hi all, you are all so helpful and welcoming to people like me asking stupid questions. I have two but didn’t want to clog the board.

One is plant ID. It is where we sowed wildflowers last year. I’m just interested.

The other thing is this rose. I’ve never done anything to it, it’s in fairly shady spot and is growing toward the light. The hips as still on from last year. Shall I prune it and if so to where?

Thanks so much
Plant 1

Plant 1

The rose

Sorry, no idea as to the plant. I think it's worth keeping, if only to see what the flowers are like.

Roses are normally pruned during the dormant period, either in autumn (if in an area where wind rock would be a problem) or more usually in Feb/Mar. I'm not sure what I would do with that one. I would probably treat it as a climber and not prune very much, but I don't do much pruning in any case, so others may have better ideas.

Thanks, just not sure whether to cut those hips off? Or indeed my husband says it’s too straggly and to take the whole thing out.....

Could the plant be goldenrod? I have something similar lurking in my garden and that’s my best guess. I’m waiting to see if it flowers.

It is a bit late in the year for pruning roses but it is very straggly. You can either wait until after it flowers and then do it, or do it now and maybe not have flowers this year. Personally I'd do it now and be pretty harsh, taking it just above the bit where it forks into three on the left, and taking the whole right side down to the same level. If you want to leave it until later then just take off the hips, but don't be scared, roses are tough and very hard to kill!

The plant doesn’t need you to take off the hips,but by this time of year they’re presumably looking pretty scratty and it won’t hurt to remove them