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ROSES: Spring/Summer 2022 🌹

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  • I like cupped roses and packed roses and almost all roses but not the small single types like Kew Gardens or Ballerina. I wasn’t particularly bothered by roses until last year. In my head I pictured them bare and thorny or covered in wind battered red flowers (like where I grew up on the windy west coast of Ireland). The variety of colours and shapes I saw on Instagram has converted me. Not to mention that they’re much lower maintenance than the dahlias I grew last year.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Katsa
    No, it's not rose mosaic virus, what you have is very common in roses, blackberries etc.  if you look on the underside of the leaves you will see little white grubs, they strip the foliage of the green and so they go white or blotchy.  It's only a cosmetic thing, and does little damage otherwise, although it doesn't look nice, some leaves may turn almost white, and if extensive the rose can lose some vigour.   I just pull off the worst affected leaves, if I happen to notice.




    East Anglia, England
  • KatsaKatsa Posts: 278
    Thanks @Marlorena. This climber only has one basal stem. The rest are all brown and sad looking and the rose is very straggly and small. To perk it up, would you suggest consistent feeding, cutting off the brown and sad looking stems and lots of water?

    thank you!
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Katsa
    ..yes all that, if you have a bottle of Tomorite, this is a very good liquid feed for roses this time of year, at the correct dosage.. [20 ml in 10 litres water]

    @puschkinia
    ..your Meg is very nice  I think, but we all look at roses differently..  yes that's 'Devoniensis, the yellow-y bloom on the right is aged, and will fall off shortly.    If you want a modern DA with similar opening blooms to the one on the left, then 'Bathsheba' offers a similar look and strongly scented.
    East Anglia, England
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    @Katsa, plenty of my foliage looks like that, the leaf hoppers and rose slugs shred them. They seem to love the roses planted against a wall in particular. Maybe that gives them more room to hide so I don’t notice them immediately. My The Prince is really bad, I agree it doesn’t do any long term damage, but the rose does have to keep putting energy into producing new leaves so I find I have to feed and water them a lot more.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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