I too chopped an underperforming, leggy, blackspotted rose right back earlier this year and it resprouted from the base and is doing really well. Roses need good soil, feeding, mulching and lots of water so if it survives I would replant it where I could easily keep it fed and watered, so probably not your GofD. The Bay might be happier permanently in a large pot in a sunny but sheltered position - we grew a healthy one for years like that in the UK, then it accidentally came to southern Spain (the removers were told to leave it for the new owners) then it kept following us around like a lost puppy.
Everyone seems to have a GofD spot somewhere - I have a one with rocky poor soil that even sedums are struggling in.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I used to have a neighbour who always had super roses in her front garden. Every winter she cut them to stumps about 2" tall. I don't know what else she did to them, but they regrew into dense bushes every year and flowered their socks off.
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...I’ve done this with the palm!
I too chopped an underperforming, leggy, blackspotted rose right back earlier this year and it resprouted from the base and is doing really well. Roses need good soil, feeding, mulching and lots of water so if it survives I would replant it where I could easily keep it fed and watered, so probably not your GofD. The Bay might be happier permanently in a large pot in a sunny but sheltered position - we grew a healthy one for years like that in the UK, then it accidentally came to southern Spain (the removers were told to leave it for the new owners) then it kept following us around like a lost puppy.
Everyone seems to have a GofD spot somewhere - I have a one with rocky poor soil that even sedums are struggling in.