Rose disease

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• DimWit Posts: 553

  March 2018

  Sorry, I zoomed the image and they do look like scales. Take a piece of cotton, dip in alcohol and rub against the blighters (beware of the thorns).

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• valerieroberts Posts: 726

  March 2018

  Thanks DimWit, I have gin or vodka, do you think that would do. Val

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2018

  I've zoomed in and I agree with DimWit

  
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• DimWit Posts: 553

  March 2018

  Dunno, valerie, give it a try. The worst you'll do is have a lot of wasted revellers!

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  Think it might be scurfy rose scale  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/815955/is-this-scurfy-rose-scale 
  
  If you have other uses for the gin and vodka,    methylated spirits, turps or white spirit would do the job. 

  
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• valerieroberts Posts: 726

  March 2018

  Thank you guys, I drank the gin and used meths, clean as a whistle. Val  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2018

  Thank heavens you got it the right way around!    Enjoy your weekend 

  
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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  March 2018

  Glad you asked that, 2 of my roses have it for the first time. Any chance it will just go away by itself? One climbing rose, Falstaff, is covered in prickles.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2018

  From what I've read the adults will fly off to colonise other roses ... I'd get rid of them if I were you BL.  

  
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