Rose tree with multiple offshoots from base?

I am new to gardening and bought a home with many rose trees. Some of them had a few offshoots from what looks like a knobby base of the main tree. I cut them off at the base as low as possible. Now they are coming back in triples....meaning, I have a ton of offshoots. I am not sure what to do. The rose tree is growing nicely and gives beautiful pink roses. I do not know where it came from or what type of rose it is. Thanks in advance.

Rose tree with multiple offshoots from base?
A lot of roses are grafted onto a rootstock so that the new cultivar of rose is healthier and/or faster for the grower to grow since they can grow a 2 yr old plant in 1 year essentially.... if grafted, the sprouts you are seeing, sometimes called "water sprouts," are coming from a different genetic make up than the rose flowers you are attaining from the topside of the plant...at the same time these shoots are stealing the energy the topside of the plant could use to make bigger more abundant blooms...





my recommendation... cut them off as fast as they come up so you have a chance at a healthier more extravagant rose...good luck
Reply:The knobbly bit is called the graft. Anything above that knobbly bit is good. Anything below that bit is the 'root stock', which is a strong growing rose bush. The shoots you describe sound like the root stock coming up. Don't cut these off, be mean and rip them off with a gloved hand. That will stop them coming back so quickly. If that is not done, the root stock rose will over take the good rose above and steal all the sun and nutrients from it.