Weird rose has formed.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I have a David Austin white rose. Been great so far. It’s in its second year.

But have found this rose. It’s not anything like the others that are blooming. Should I cut it off? Does this mean there is something wrong with the rose. Have added a picture of said rose. And another normal one. Hope u can see them.

Just cut it off - sometimes buds dont open properly. Probably nothing wrong unless it keeps happening.

One of my David Austin roses has two kinds of roses on it. The leaves are a diffiernt shape on half of it. It must have been grafted or whatever it's called. Im no expert! We call it the Franken-Rose.

Yeah - my vote is it's something to do with the root stock the rose is grafted onto.

David Austin have been really helpful when I've asked them questions in the past. I'd drop them a line and see what they say.

Yes, after care service is good!

Is it a grafted rose growing off the rootstock?

I second that DA care service is good.
In fact very good.

You need to work out which is the rootstock and which the graft/scion -the one you bought. Usually the rootstock will have smaller, single not double, flowers and the leaves will have more leaflets.

if you allow the rootstock to grow unrestrained, it will eventually tahe over

So should I dig it up and chop through the roots @MereDintofPandiculation?

@GladysHeeler if you can work out which branches are from the rootstock (below the graft) and which branches belong to the rose you wanted (above the graft), then you can just cut the rootstock branches right back hard to the trunk. If you’re completely sure, you can kind of slice off the area that those branches sprouted from. You do need the rootstock, so no need to dig it up.

No, you simply cut off at the base any shoots that have come from the rootstock. In theory you should pull them off, but that only works when they're very small.

Of course you ma find you prefer the rootstock to the "proper" plant, in which case there's nothing wrong in doing nothiing and letting the rootstock take over. My father inherited a tree peony which was truly hideous - a great shocking pink dishmop the size of a football. But in then produced suckers from the rootstock - darker pink single flowers highlighted by a mass of yellow stamens, much pretty - so 10 years on from the first sucker it had about 30 of these flowers coming, and has had only one of the pink footballs. A big improvement to my eyes (other people's tastes may differ.

My David Austin rose - Gabriel Oak - did this. I sent David Austin pictures of the two different types of foliage, but they were adamant it was Gabriel Oak foliage. It’s not. Agree with PPs that it’s the grafted rootstock. Now also has pale pink flowers.

Thanks @MereDintofPandiculation, I'm going to do that today.