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I noticed a couple of days ago that the Rose bush we have as part of our rear hedge has black spot. Took a few pics up to the local garden centre as i know nothing about this sort of thing and had a chat with the chap up there and he confirmed this for me. From what I have read and he said I will have to treat it with some fungicide and remove the infected leaves/branches. Hopefully the pic shows its not quite as simple as a small thing in a flower bed - this is quite a beast, getting at things isn't the easiest.
The pic is from before, but yesterday I tried to remove as much as I could, cropping some branches off and thrashed the thing with a rake and that shook loose quite a substantial amount of the diseased leaves. However before start spraying it with whatever is needed there is another complication. We have some nesting magpies in the tree just behind and above the Rose. I don't really want to start spraying massive amounts of fungicide all over the area.
So anyway - there is my situation. I guess I'm asking those who are more knowledgeable about things what they would do here. Also I guess timelines for the disease as I will likely have to wait until the birds have fledged.
thanks
Cris
I noticed a couple of days ago that the Rose bush we have as part of our rear hedge has black spot. Took a few pics up to the local garden centre as i know nothing about this sort of thing and had a chat with the chap up there and he confirmed this for me. From what I have read and he said I will have to treat it with some fungicide and remove the infected leaves/branches. Hopefully the pic shows its not quite as simple as a small thing in a flower bed - this is quite a beast, getting at things isn't the easiest.
The pic is from before, but yesterday I tried to remove as much as I could, cropping some branches off and thrashed the thing with a rake and that shook loose quite a substantial amount of the diseased leaves. However before start spraying it with whatever is needed there is another complication. We have some nesting magpies in the tree just behind and above the Rose. I don't really want to start spraying massive amounts of fungicide all over the area.
So anyway - there is my situation. I guess I'm asking those who are more knowledgeable about things what they would do here. Also I guess timelines for the disease as I will likely have to wait until the birds have fledged.
thanks
Cris