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sick rose

catherine172catherine172 Posts: 67
in Problem solving
My Princess Alexandra of Kent has some brown sick bits on its leaves.
is it good to trim these off?
is it a sign of something in particular? - bugs? nutrition deficiency?

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That looks like either frost or cold wind damage - I've also got a few like that. Just carefully snip the dead leaves off and they should regrow. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • catherine172catherine172 Posts: 67
    thanks, Lizzie!
    have done...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Yes, I would say it's frost damage.
  • catherine172catherine172 Posts: 67
    mm, wonder whether there's something I could have done to prevent this - perhaps I cut/ trimmed a bit early or something?
  • InglezinhoInglezinho Posts: 568
    edited May 2021
    "Oh rose, thou art sick, the invisible worm
    that flies in the night, in the howling storm.
    has eaten into thy crimson bed of joy."

    - William Blake ( author of Jerusalem, Britain's third national anthem)

    Try again. Good luck!




      
    Everyone likes butterflies. Nobody likes caterpillars.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I don't think you could have prevented it unless you covered it with mesh. Almost everything in my garden looks like that this year. Soft March, freezing April.
  • catherine172catherine172 Posts: 67
    mesh, eh - new thought.
    thanks, c
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In a normal year, you probably wouldn't have needed to do anything, but this hasn't been a normal year.
    One of my roses looked a bit like that without the crispy bits. New shoots are growing well now.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • catherine172catherine172 Posts: 67
    I'm glad it's not so much me...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Remove the frosted leaves if you don’t like the look of them. At this time of year the roses will soon grow new ones. :smile:

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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