A rose question

[KangarooKenny]

I’ve got red leaf looking growths from the stem of my rose bush. Should I leave them, or are they suckers to be removed ?

Is your rose, red, orange or peach coloured? If so the new shoots often start off red.

No, it’s purple

Are these shoots coming from right down at the base near the soil?

No. I believe those are suckers, so I’ve been pinching those off.
these are red shoots coming out of a green stem. They look like they are going to be leaves, and I do want it to bush out a bit. Should I leave them or not ?

Leave them, they are the new growth. I forgot to put purple in my previous colour list.

Ok thanks.

Is it a grafted rose? If it is, and the growth is below the graft you need to remove it as it would be from the root not the plant you want.

One of my DA standard roses is a nightmare for this and can grow inches in a day.

I don’t know if it’s a grafted rose.
I fed it for the first time recently, I wonder if this growth is due to that

Most of my roses do this - it’s new growth!

Usually suckers from below the graft aren’t red, because the rose species used as rootstocks presumably aren’t those with red stems.

There’s lots of new leaves now, it must have enjoyed the rose feed.