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Post by TMan on Jun 16, 2013 22:19:40 GMT -5
www.greenhousegrower.com/article/32859/reducing-the-spread-of-rose-rosette-diseaseIf you have roses, you should know about this. I started noticing it last year. Now it has spread through all the beds. I thought the plants out on the islands would be okay, but I was wrong. Now I see it in them too. I won't tell you the monetary loss, but it is in the Wilson Combat range. Now I have all these diseased and dead plants to dig up and replace with something besides roses. The hybrid teas were completely killed. The knock-out roses are vastly infected, but seem to try to fight it. They just look like crap.
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Post by 5ontarget on Jun 19, 2013 21:22:09 GMT -5
I've been trying to do my part. The multiflora rose is so prominent around here. I should by stock in some herbicide companies with as much as I spray on it, honeysuckle, ground ivy and poison ivy. I'm recovering from a nice reaction to some poison ivy from when I mowed the pasture and fence rows.
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Post by blueglass on Jun 19, 2013 21:51:30 GMT -5
That's No fun to have and I hope it goes away very quickly for you. I always really cover up when working around this crap as I have seen what it can do. I have several different varieties of Roses at my house here as well which my late Dad planted in the 50's. I transplanted them years ago now to my house and thankfully they have survived and done well ever since. We do enjoy them a lot.
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