Is This Rose Rosette?
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Thanks.
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Sorry, but I would say it is.
Thanks. Yes I'm afraid so. Best just to tear those roses out and plant something else. Not roses.
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Looks it to me. Sorry. Very common in neighborhoods. The vectors are the nursery propagation methods and the yard service personnel who do not sanitize between yards and then the proximity to sick plants as wind and insects can spread it. The cure is heat, and while you can buy roses that have survived the heating process to be clean, introducing purified strains of rose into a biologically contaminated area is not the best plan financially.
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Yep...sorry. It took all of our drift and knockouts and is also working on the neighbor's roses. We moved on from roses. In the front where we wanted crowd control (the original reason for an overhanging drift rose hedge), we have now planted gooseberries. Flowere for pollinators (bumblebees especially), fruit for us and birds...and spines like needles.
Drat. I just bought a drift rose yesterday. Thanks for your input. I’m in zone 7b which might be too hot and humid for gooseberries although I do grow elderberries that I dug up from the roadside and transplanted.