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.

Roses are one of the most popular landscape plants, but many homeowners are unfamiliar with the most common rose problems. Rose slug, blackspot, rose rosette and powdery mildew can all have either ...

Don't give up on your rose bush just yet. If your rose garden is your pride and joy, it can be devastating to watch as the health of a once-glorious shrub declines. Pests, diseases, and environmental ...

Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are all ...

Remember when you would walk into the classroom and your teacher would announce a pop quiz? Sometimes this felt like punishment, but the quizzes were often a great learning tool. Now’s your chance to ...

Nothing takes the peace and relaxation out of stopping to smell the roses quite like an unsightly fungal disease. Rose bushes (Rosa), even those that claim to be resistant, often suffer from black ...

Just as your roses reach their peak, a common fungal foe may be lurking, ready to sabotage their vibrant display. Black spot, easily identified by the dark brown or black blotches that appear on ...

Q: The Therese Bugnet hardy rose bush that I planted last year now has reddish-brown spots on some of the leaves, and those leaves are starting to curl. Can you tell me what I need to do to get rid of ...

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 beautiful rose flower tops a green stem that has sharp outgrowths. Many people refer to these as thorns. If you’re a botanist, you might call these sharp outgrowths prickles, as they’re part of ...