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.

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.

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 ...

Q: By all accounts, my rose garden succumbed to a virus this summer called rose rosette. It is truly a horrific process to watch. Should I remove the bushes or wait to see how they fare in the coming ...

Question: I have various kinds of roses in a small flower bed. An unusual thing has happened to one of the rose bushes. This spring it started growing very small leaves -- really small, and there are ...

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 ...

Back in 2009, a Master Gardener showed me an article on rose rosette disease, a fatal disease spreading among cultivated roses in the Midwestern, southern and eastern United States. I agreed ...

Q: We have star jasmine, coral honeysuckle, and Peggy Martin rose plants in our landscape. All have bloomed beautifully through this season, but now the plants are turning yellow. I fear that I might ...

Rose rosette disease is an incurable and fatal virus, and the only course of action is immediate and complete removal. Signs include excessive red growth and thorniness, distorted buds, and witch's ...

I wrote about this disease two years ago when it was first being reported in southern states, but this is the first year that I am seeing it quite commonly on many wild multiflora roses in my ...