Question
I live in Havre, Montana very close to the Canadian border.  When I purchased my house seven years ago there were several rose bushes growing on the property, they were just in areas I wanted to do other things with-- so I transplanted a rose bush from one part of the yard to another. I believe it was flowering in a red color (I want to say it may have been a MR. LINCOLN) but there was no marker to specify what kind of rose it was.  Now it grows and gets nice dark green leaves but it hasn't shown a bloom for 3 years.  What could have happened to it? And what if anything I can do to make it flower again?

Answer
Transplanting a rose will always set it back especially in regards to flowering.  But it should be doing something by this time. What has happened is that the flower buds are getting killed in the winter perhaps because of the new area. If a rose is what is called borderline tender, then even a simple thing like changing the area it was growing in can do it. If it is Mr. Lincoln, this is a fussy rose to grow at the best of times and it would be borderline tender in your area. I would replace it with a rose that will give you pleasure not problems.