Our Poorly Rose ........ Please Help !!!!

Hi All
I've joined this forum in the hope that someone can shed some light on our poorly rose issue. I bought four of these roses from a reputable website some nine years ago as a memory to my wife's Grandmother Phylis. I scoured the internet and found the 'Phylis' Rose and bought four of them, one for my wife and one each for my mother-in-law and my wife's uncle and her brother. Until this year, our rose has been doing the best of all and each being very healthy and flowering throughout the summer. But then this year our rose has turned very poorly looking as can be seen in the photos attached.
Instead of an abundance of leaves and then buds and blooms we have this short spikey looking growth all over. The stems of the plant look healthy but no leaves and certainly no buds.
Now, neither of us are particularly good at gardening but we potter and deadhead etc. This rose has not been moved for at least five years and seemed to be flourishing.

Please please please can someone tell me what's up.

Waiting with hope
Steve

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That looks like classic weedkiller damage, Steve. Did some spray drift around that area, perhaps or a watering can used for weedkiller subsequently used to water the rose? If the plant is cossetted, it should pull through...roses are tough plants. Having said that, if the soil or compost has been contaminated it would be best to re-pot in fresh soil asap. It would grow a lot more happily in the ground, if you have a spot for it.