ISO Rose Bush Culling Suggestions

So my GF has a blackberry bush that has grown in tandem with a rose bush.
We love the berries, hate the roses. Does anyone have a suggestion that I can use to kill the rose without harming the blackberry?


TIA

by hand get thick gloves, as a kid i use to pick blackberries, i believe for rose bushes you have to get them at the bulbs to get rid of them and those are in the ground

PopeCrisco said:

So my GF has a blackberry bush that has grown in tandem with a rose bush.
We love the berries, hate the roses. Does anyone have a suggestion that I can use to kill the rose without harming the blackberry?


TIA

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Not really, selective weed killers normally target either monocots (grasses) or dichots (most other plants), unfortunately both roses and blackberries are dichots. I would cut the rose bush off at the base, then when you prune back the blackberry in the fall/winter remove the rose.