This morning a neighbor asked me to look at his roses. I was afraid of what I might see having learned about the arrival of rose rosette in our part of the country. Sure enough, my neighbor has 3 roses infected with the rose rosette virus. I could go into a lot of detail about what causes this and how to deal with it. Basically, it makes your rose bushes ugly and then they die. Since this is a virus, there is not a treatment.
This virus was in the Huntsville/Decatur area last year.
Here is a link with reliable information: Virginia Cooperative Extension
This is a closeup showing what some roses look like with this disease.
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Comment by Donna H 5-6/CT on May 27, 2012 at 7:16am Scary disease...hope it doesn't get this far north
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