Find out everything you need to know about rose rosette disease to prevent, diagnose, and manage it so you can reduce its spread. If you’ve ever seen a rose bush that looked like something out of a ...

Although I’m trained as a horticulturist rather than a plant pathologist, it is necessary in my field to have some understanding of the problems encountered by various kinds of plants and find a way ...

If you are a rose person (and you know who you are), roses are not only the centerpiece of your garden but are the plant that commands most of your attention. I’m not a rose person, if you can’t tell.

Rose rosette disease (RRD) is a rose disease that has been in existence since the 1940s but that did not have a wide impact on the rose industry or those of us who grow them for many decades. However, ...

Learn the signs of rose rosette virus in Knock Out roses, why there's no cure, and when to remove plants and replant safely.

Roses with rose rosette must be destroyed to prevent the disease from spreading to other roses. (Contributed Photo) This year, two large public rose plantings in Tyler have been observed with rose ...

NEW ORLEANS — The outlook for American-grown roses is becoming a bit less rosy, with the spread of an incurable virus that’s causing major damage to the nation’s $250-million-a-year rose business. U.S ...

Carleen Bright Arboretum Director Janet Schaffer walks through an area where several roses infected by rose rosette disease had to be removed to prevent further spread of the virus carries by small ...

Telltale signs of a rose bush infected with rose rosette disease are clusters of deformed red leaves, called "witches' brooms," with an overgrowth of many tiny thorns. If your roses don’t look quite ...

The Rose Rosette Disease does not appear at this time to have a cure and most people at this point haven’t even heard of it. Fortunately for me, I heard a speaker at the Ag Extension Building speak on ...

Long prized for their striking flowers and wonderful scent, roses are a garden staple in landscapes around the world. But it is not uncommon these days to see rose plants in which something seems off.

In recent years, Rose Rosette Disease has become a serious issue. It is quite difficult for the home gardener to witness a great source of summer color succumb to this disease. RRD was first reported ...