Rose standards are bush roses grafted onto long straight canes from a vigorous climbing variety, so what you will get is more like a vine than a bush, and probably only bloom once a year.

I,d contact your supplier sounds to me as if the graft has failed

Thank you Tugbrethil.

Yes Pamg, I have contacted David Austin and sent them a photo, they offered to to send out another Standard Nov/Dec, but I have asked them for a T Rose of the same variety "Ruby Wedding" as buy Nov our anniversary will be going for Gold! I just thought I may be able to salvage the rose.

We had a standard cotoneaster on which the top died, it started to shoot from the bottom and is now a lovely bush cotoneaster!,,

I, m pleased David Austin are replacing your rose fo you

Take it out and get rid of it - what grows from the base will be the rootstock, effectively a dog rose, a thorny, enormous beast...

Thank you Bamboo, I will dig it out, I only have so much room in the garden so will not want a thorny beast.